The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-25

richness OF MS eXuDerantly TanCl1ul
| diction picture of Shakespeare, the
! man. and his works, and give a delight
to his hearers by his own gorgeous
word painting, of which he is 50 great
a master
The Rev. Father MacCorry is accused
of introducing Webster's eulogy on
Washington into his 'tRuts and Ante
Ruts." l am glad he did. There could
not be anything of his own to improve
upon the great orator and pleaders
peroration. This bit of Websterian
defamation is no more offensive, how
ever, than when Webster himself APP
propriated whole passages from Ed
mund Burke and Erskine Who will
dare to accuse that giant intellect of
plagiarism? Ingersoll and MacCorry
both in the same connection say:
Il want it so that l. one of the chill
dren of nature, can stand on an equal
ity with the rest, that l can say this
is my air. my sunshine, my earth, and
l have a right to live and hope and
aspire and labor and enjoy the fruit of
| that labor etc.
| There is scarcely work on political
economy but in which you will find the
! above extract, and in exactly the same
words and connection as in both lee
lures. Mans 'individualism" and in
dependence: Carlyle, Peter Plym1ey's
Letter (Sydney Smith,, Henry Georges
imagine in Tom Paine's Rights of
Man" where most likely Insersoll first
found it. In the coming political cam
paigns every stump orator in the coun-
try will use the very same words, and
| they will come naturally to the speak
| who thoughtless of the names I have
mentioned. will accuse the viilainous
| trusts of combining to rob him of his
| air, his sunshine. his labor. etc.
| All lectures and discourses may. with
/ advantage. be embellished with here
and there a poetic quotation, and as
| Ingersolls "Individualsm" and Rev.
| MacCorry's 'Ruts and Anti-R uts" are
| on the same subject-independenc of
| character-both drawing their. mate
rails from the same or like sources, and
needing a smile to illumina their sub
| ject, each OF them introduces Words
worth's line:
THY soul was like star and dwelth
apart"
| Which. by the way, was suggested to
| Wordsworth by Fletcher's lines, writ
! ten 300 years ago:
Man is his own star, and the soul that
can
| Render an honest and perfect man
| Commands all light etc.
And again the same author:
Man is his own star, and that soul
that can
| Be honest is the only perfect man.
Here it was where Wordsworth
| caught his star. Here also did that
| rascaly "plagiarist,'' Pope. find the
most frequently quoted line in his essay
on Man.
| "An honest mans the noblest work of
God"
| Now see how beautifully Burns ap-
plies Pope's line:
From scenes like these old Scotias
grandeur springs
| That makes her loved at home, le-
vered abroad;
Princes and lords are but the breath Of
kings,
An honest mans the noblest work of
| God"
Before quitting the consultations I
| will draw attention to one more CT
| Pope's ''plagiarisms:"
| "At whose sight all the stars
Hide their diminished heads
-Milton's Paradise Lost
I'VE little stars, hide your diminished
heads"
-Popes Moral Essays
There are no two lines in Ingersolr S
and MacCorrys lectures more alike
than those last quoted from Pope and
| Milton.
The Rev. MacCorry, in his lecture,
can with a good grace say to the
Christian man.
Thy soul was like star and dwelth
apart
In Ingersolls the quotation is bad
style, for when the soul becomes The
dark charne house of infdeli y it is
made impervous to heavenly light.
1t is easy to demonstrate that the
advancement of all literature ami in
ventons is due to the appropriating Of
The works and ideas OF others. It is
the progression of civilization. The
greatest geniuseS the world has known
availed themselves of ready made ma
terials. Had not the lesser poets pre-
! cedng his Iimn written PLAYS and
verses on Hamlet" Macbeth '"-h he
Tempest" Merchant of Venice cue.
we would have no Shakespeare. rs I
look from my window and behold the
majestic flood of the Missoula, I know
that the volume of it's waters is made
up from its tributaries of many creeks
and rivulets, that it will flow on, and
still increasing, until in its confluence
with the swelling wave of the ColuT bia
it is lost in the great ocean which
bears upon its bosom the argosies OF
the world.
So with the progress of thoughts
small spring. If writers, speakers Oh
composers were limited each to orig
inality the world would be in a stats
of dry rot We would be deprived c1
all that contributes to make life pleas
ant. There would be no such thing as
mental delights, On account Of the bar
, renness which would prevail.
The song kathleen Mavourneen,
which for the past so years has giver
! delight to millions and will yet charm
millions to come owes its origin to thE
following. written so years ago. Tn.
first verse is only necessary to con
| vince:
Anna Marie, love, up is the sun,
Anna Marie, love, morn is begun,
Mists are dispensing, love, birds sing
ing free,
Up in the morning, love Anna Marie
Anna Marie love, up in the morning,
The hunter is winding blythe sound:
on his horn,
The echo rings merry from rock ant
| from tree,
Tis time to arouse thee, love, Anna