Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-09-19
SAID IN SHORT WORDS.
A Strong Talk In MonosyIlabIes Made
by an Ohio Man.


! In these days of turgid eloquence,
when public speakers seem to vie with
one another to see how many triple
jointed words they can lug into
speech and seem to scorn the strength
and beauty of short words, an address
delivered many years ago by A. 2.
Edgerton of Ohio has peculiar weight
and is an eloquent argument in favor
of short, direct methods of speech. Mr..
Edgerton served in congress and was
civil service commissioner under Presi-
dent Cleveland. The address was de-
livered in 1889 at the commencement
of the Fort Wayne high school, in In
diana, and, while 1t was impromptu
and not at all a studied effort at
monosyllable diction, each of the words
1t contains is monOsyllable. Not only
that, but as an oratOrical effort it
ranks high. The address is as follows:
This day we close for the year the
Fort Wayne free schools, and we now
part with you. the girls and boys we.
are no more to teach.
Il say girls and boys for when three
score and ten years have come to your
you will be glad to have your friends:
say that health and peace of mind
have kept your hearts warm; that you
wear no brow Of gloom, are not borne.
down with age, but still, in heart, are
girls and boys When threesCOre years
come and hope they will come to all,
the tide OF time will roll back and tell
you of your schOoltime days, when
the fair, the kind and the true found
love, but the false heart found no
friend, no tongues to praise. These
days bring rich gifts to age, and when
you shall cease to think of them your
fire has burned low and your light has
gone oN. You have been here taught
In the hope that the free schools Of
Fort Wayne would help to make you
of use to your friends a1d to the world.
would give you faith in all that IS
good and true and lead you to seek
work, for that you must seek and do
If you would have good name.
wealth. a home, a charge to keep or
a trust to serve. Go forth with a bold,
true heart to seek the work for you to-
do
"Kecp in your mind that the hours to
work run through each day and that
Gods great law of life is. In the sweat
Of thy face shalt thou eat bread
"Now, for you young man, this truth
is told.
go where you will through the
world and you will find on the front
door of shops and mills, of stores and
banks, and on ships, on farms, on
roads, in deep mines where men toll
for wealth; where laws are made that
make some men too rich and men of
worth and work through all our land
too poor; where men by law are taught
to plot with sin. to spurn the right,
that charge and cost and spoil may
make old 'Quirk's' law firms rich:
where law Is so plead that the judge
must guess to find what's law; where
Quacks most fight DER sick mems pains
and dead mems bones; where types are
set and none to mind the proofs; where
priests do preach and pray and where
schools are taught this sign. Brains
VIII Find Work Here
Don't fear Step up and ask for
work; brains will get it. Don't let L
dare not wait on Il would'-like the cat
that loves fish, but dares not wet her
foot
III it be said. What can you do?
VIII you learn a trader say, 4 have
none, but can learn one and put
brains in it When you go to n place
where brains should hunt for work
and be sure to find it. it may be said
to you. DO you see that plOw? Can
you hold and drive 1t dcepY That
pillow. in it's wise use, gives ali men
food
do you see that wheel and that
crank and those shafts and that press.
and do you hear the rush and the hiss
Of the steam which moves them? Can
you make and hold and run them? Can
you build and drive the works and
wheels which make the wealth Of the
earth and cause 1t to roll and to float
to and fro from place to place, where
1t is the best for man to use it?
can you SPIN the thFeau anu weave
It which makes robes for kings and
silks for the rich and vain, and dress
for the poor and all that skill and art
have wrought by loom and hand for
mans use?
These things are all shot through
with threads of lght-the light Of
mind and art and skill which shines
each day more bright and dims all the
old by some new found light as the
years go on."-ChicagO Chronicle.
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