The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-08

uncomfortable quicker in the mouth, but still one goes on eating the bitter-sWect stuff for d reason quite impossible 10 analyze." ,,,4. man that one discovers the extent or the mans Democracy. He believed so much in the commonest Of the com mon people, that the yagabond appear ed to him to have regal possibilities. The shining and the stained, the lg norant and the unattractive were to nm picturesque prophecies, ., uhpollsheu gems, unrendered nuggets
 Dr. Jones spoke of Whitman as one who had unbounded faith in himself, The "One's Self l Sing, Of the Ilfst his spirit. Whoever else may tail 10 believe in Whitman, Walt believed In himself most heartily. His egotlsm rls- es to a height so sublime that It oe comes to him a religion Every line or his poetry might almost be character ized as being written in the tirst per son, singular, and then printed In capl- tol letters
 Whitman sings not of the past he continued, but of the future lie speaks not as a historian, but as a prophet;; Sometimes he seems to have sense or limitations as to his form and words, but never doubt as to hls splfl1t ! or as to the outcome of his message Whitman's Democracy, the speaker said, was based upon his love of Ma ture He loved the out of doors. lie knew the birds and flowers. This splr- 1t Ot SYnDdIiY WILl lNeiAulN Neto ed by the spirit of the age, until he came near singing the Song Of EVolu- tion. ... ever, that Whitman has most to do. When we come into this double realm of Nature and human nature, we must conclude that however IL may De Wltl the elaborated product, Whitman ceTee | tafntly dealt with splendid materlal. IT his writings are not poetry, they cer- tainly contain that out of which poe try is being made" , Speaking of the universally or Whll, mans poetry, Dr. Jones said; l.. He travels through Switzerland, ne Swede, Icelander. He interviews Jews and Chinamen; the Hottentot Wlth clicking palete, the dwarfed Kamtschat- kan Greenlander and Lapp;. .....,i.,- However fond he may be Of traVellhR ! over the world in this wise, whitman always returns to America. He loved | the Western Hemisphere; he gloried m | it's eXpanse of prairie and .rlNer' ne | liked the newness of 1t all.
 | The speaker classed Whitman as one of the few absolute. thorough golng | Democrats of the country; He shoniH l be classed in this respect he said, with | Jefferson, Hugo, Lincoln and Tolstoy | He found his man in the humble paths of life. AnI great ms lo 3eiiet ,ear m rnore ore | United States. He loved men nor
 The civil way, said the speaker, tc | Whitman was d transnguration. H' I | tions. a mind to grasp fund iamenta l principles. He turned his harp to thu 1 solemn measures of duty, death ah' | Dr. Jones spoke of the tenderness o 1 the masculine man as brought out II | the experiences of Whitman amont
 the hospitals of the army. w att " ,,, ni, h, | could wcap," he said. Later, hoWeNe | he grew weary of matial figures, ant 1 grew more absorbed in the poetry | a SnOI | His true estimate of the poets mlsslol | became to lift the prose or m l ordinary on to poetic, levels, 10 Tn
 terpret the life of the loWly Tn term
 Whitman's patriotism. the speake
 contended. did not tend to make mn
 provincial or partisan, ,,+aS RathfT Iis T1 i1
 ca.ise it represented the ideals O
 humanity and the, hop; of al all races aces | ''TIappily" he said Whitman com
 pleted his work and passed on be1or
 tbere came the sad reaction represent
 ed by the recent spasms or ahNletS
 solicitations about self-Protectlon, an
 5rnad of further ontact with tn
 world. He died with his falth undlhl
 med that the United states was to % con l tinue to be beacon light or DfnoC
 racy,. inviting the down-trodden or al
 n' '"'W7Vhhiitman stands for the onw3rr
 push of the human soul said Dl [ TOnPE in COntluSlbI flllAA
 TeaS6 Tel' of socie'y His lines wi
 probably continue to conquer sn}tg of 2s"in65 f6
 iudgmenf. There comes a time In tn
 of f esGh s@g of TaSq met it or qGei %onet
 the r5usic of Wagner There comes
 time when the same soul cannot g'
 away from either of these, all housh
 has never surrendered and never meai
 to So with Walt Whitman. :.
 At the close of tho lecture an an 1T II /. formal reception was held by |. b
 Tones. many of his audience ,shakln
 hands with the distingulsh,ed lecture .etd a,
 Dr. Jones will remain in Montgomsl
 untiI tomorrow night, and during thi
 lime will deliver three si1hiret more oddfeSSS5 df
 lecture will be "Ibsen," at the Jes
 French auditorium TomofffiGw meefing of ]!'S ti
 HRWor,ar.s tTlubs of the city. under q
 auspices of the 6rrow SSsa~' ngRt t5nD 'R he
 ig tjs series with q lecture on "iI
 0StvSerlanping of Religion at Temp
 Beth-Or