The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-16
THEME OF INTEREST
TO SEATTLE PEOPLE.
Hon. r. X. SehoonmakeR to Speak
Wednesday Wight On sChinA,
the shnAovy O The Wafla.~

Hon. r. X. seAoonmaker to speak
Wednesday Night On sChina,
the shadow on tke WoFla.~
The people OF Seattle viii have an OPP
portunity OF hearing one OF the greatest
orators in America next Wednesday even
at the Arnory Tor the benefit OF the Y.
NJ c. A No man ever came with better
Endorsements and no lecturer ever better
understood his subject His lecture on
and commerce il at the same time an
inspiration and revelation to Pacific
coast audiences. and viii be received with
enthusiasm. The following interesting ac-
ers manner OF delivering 1t. Is from the
Champaign, H.. Gazette:
The lecture by F. " Schoonmaker on
China. the Shadow on the World last
evening, was the most remarkable ever de-
livered In this, q university town. Mr.
Schoonmaker is peculiarly lifted 10 speak
in public on any subject. He has the
presence, the manner. the method and
the expression best suited for oratory:
indeed, he combines them all in a degree
seldom found in a single individual. He
was early in childhood singled out for
education as q pubic speaker and l. per-
haps one OF the very few orators now
living who were designed and trained for
the art of oratory. His voice Is perfectly
as silver bell.
HE is 50 skiliful in his methods that he
never permits either effort, elocution or
style TO make even momenfary appear
auce IN his addresses. whether the audi
ence be small or great, easy to reach or
very difficult. Schoonmaker never seems
10 struggle. never seems to try, TO accom-
plish his effectS-he simply seems to talk,
as If it were the easiest thing in the
world, just as easy 1t is when You are
sitting in converse with friend. Let any,
one who imagines that real oratory Is
within the reach of manly, try to talk to
alness he uses at home at dinner! Schoon-
maker has done IL with 10000 he addressed
that many people at Battery ID, Chicago;
he never once GRATED. never detained He
spoke with such apparent ease, and with
such entire absence Of gesture, effort and
Stage-play, that the most distant auditor
felt that he was being convcrsed with. He
did that with that immense crowd for two
hours and a half. and the crowd was as
tonished when he quit.
This man understands the art of never
in public speaking drawing attention 10
anything else than what is said. And
right here comes In another difficulty:
how may men can talk long time in
public and say things all the time that
people will listen to without being allured
to do so by some establishment of pose.
gesture or evolutionary art?
I'm his lecture on China Mr.. Schoon
maker furnishes a talk that would I'M
doubtedly hold most audiences longer than
even he could go on. There is not waste
sentence IN it, every one of them is COM
pact and freightei full of interesting mat
ter. And it is all SO startlingly new and
80 full of human interest. Here Is
man VINO understands the Chinese, their
history, their religion. their ethics. their
disposition and their necessities, and who
knows his own countrymen thoroughly.
He knows that the immense population Of
China has long since passed in increase
the point where the land would any longer
feed 1t; that the United States alone can do
this feeding: that from this condition the
largest tranSoceanic trade the world has
ever seen is now imminent on the Pacific
ocean, that this trade will soon densely
people the Pacific slope and thereon build
tha large American cities of the future.
''He grasps the whole situation, possesses
an immense fund of Information bearing
on IL, and in describing TO Americans the
peculiar characteristics and tastes of their
future customers does thing which, done
in his way, is certainly calculated to make
better Americans OF all who live west of
the Rockies, to stimulate the unsettled to
locate there and TO raise the value and
increase holdings in every acre of land
along the entire future waterway of the
world. What a theme for Pacific coast
audiences! What a sensation such a lee
ture would produce out there,"