The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-11-23

an orator who exhibited the same high
''Nei Oh supreme oratorical excellence
III SO many kinds. do not care whcth-
or You seek the secret of oratory I'm
arSulhcntntivc power, whether Won
seek 1t in clear, closc-cut. sure-footed
exposition of Il very difficult and en-
tangled business, or whether Won l0ol,
for Il fcrvid and intense appeal TO the
highest emotion that can warm tbc I'm.
man heart, or the deepest principles
That can cnlighten political reason, or
whether you seek the utterancp OF n
man borne onward by some mighty.
rushing wind and strenuous effort to
serve some high purpose of persuasion
or act will undertake to saw that
whatever OF those four kinds of orn-
'ory you may choose to dwell on, I
may boldly undertake to say that in
each or those several kinds and varle.
ties will find a master in the speccb-
cs of the great and famous man whom
we nave met here today to commence
rate hppl;usc).. lie, as an orator, had
nothing in common with the glittering,
purple platitudcs of Anarchists kIootz-
'lll orator OF the American race, or amy
orator OF that species In an early
notebook he quoted, for his own guild
;'lIce, u sentence OF Cicero: '"rhat no
lh;ln cam attain the glory of cloqucncc
without the very highest qualities of
zeal, of toll, of collst;lllcy, of knowI-
edge" | remember once talking to
Alr Gladstone about how to make
speeches Qaughtcr). lie had a Door
learner, but lie told me of serious pre-
l'arhtions that lie made, and then lie
said: AS for the wortls-wcll the
words come" That does not happen
10 all of us. But this is the point. Ills
speeches, in spite of all the decoration,
the rhetorical decoration, are satu-
rated, as every sensible political speech
ought to be saturated, in mnttcr and
prlcticc, and, apart from the cXtrlor-
binary intellectual powers, apart from
these Incompatible physical gifts
which seemed TO cncASc the soul of fire
in frame of plant steel, he was Il
great orator in the only sense i'm which
ii Is worth while for any man ever to
talk to anybody, to any great audience,
because he was always engaged on
some practical object, some great piece
OF PERSUASION, or some great act. Be
sides, he was Il great orator because
lnvng the gifts, having hopes and
thoughts about his country and about
good causes, he was Il most prodigious
and interchangeable worker; and, sec
nndly, and even more important, be-
cause OF the tcnacity and the force of
his will. Talk of Mr.. Gladstone as Il
worker. WHY speak with all re-
Specific would have been Il match for
any Of You Manchester gentlemen in
your own warehouses and factories
and mills and banks, just as he was 4
match for the ablcst officials at the
treasury in the strict, laborous, accll-
rate methods of business No drudg-
ing city clerk in Manchester had more
of the virtues Of the counting house.
Nobo1y who has not worked ut close
quarters with Mr. Gladstone at franz
ing great bills, knows or can realize
his searching exploration Of details,
the intensity and concentration of his
scrutiny Of facts, figures, and argu-
mrnts, his mastery of clauses, sub
clauses, and provisos, his imperial
command over the minuti;n even of Il
schedule; and yet all the timc--dO not
forget this-whilc he was all this, he
was Il shining instance of the maxim
that great thoughts come from the
heart" He did not take the House Of
Commons languitlly daughter and ap.
plause). He regarded the honor and
power Of the House of Commons as
one Of the great bulwarKs of English
liberty and good government in Eng
land (applause). He honored the House
of Commons and he taught the House
OF Commons to honor itself (applause).
What he thought was the statesman's
gifts consisted in insight into the facts