The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-10-13
MARSE bob IS
WELL RECEIVED
VERY CLEVER With HIS JOLLY
senator Bob Taylor Entcrtains Large
Audience With Opening Number
of Y. VI. &. \. Course.

North Yakima had the honor OF en-
tertaining another distinguished pO-
litical leader and statesman, in the
person Of United States Senator Rob
ert Taylor Of Tennessee. who opened
the Lyceum course Of the Y. NJ. G. a.
with 2 lecture in the auditorium Of
the First Christian church last even
ing The church was well filed with
u representative and enthusiastic as
sembly.
Senator Taylor is one Of a famous
southern family, his father having
been United States senator before
him. In the campaign for senatorship
Bob Taylor defeated his brother, who
was on the republican ticket. by
hddling his way into the hearts of the
voters. being widely known by his
violin. g. F. Barge introduced the
speaker with few well chosen
words.
Senator Taylor opened his lecture
by praise Of Yakima. and painted pic
lures which surpassed the statements
of other recent visitors in describing
the country as he had seen it during
the one day Picturing the valley as
. revelation beyond words to ex-
press, he said that he wondered that
President Taft in his search for indi-
cations Of prosperity and plenty had
not thrown up his hat in North
Yakima and shouted Eureka"
1T is the garden spot of the west"
was one Of the statements made by
the Tennessee statesman, who added
that he had seen more apples i'm
North Yakima than ever before.
I
ing in life ! would make a Decline for
Yakima" he said. and finished his
praise Of the valleys by saying that he
believed that when the Lord expelled
the guilty pair from Paradise he was
loath to destroy the wonderful fruits
and transferred them to what is now
Yakima"
After devoting Is minutes to this
praise Senator Taylor launched into
his lecture, which was in fact an as
semblage of three lectures, including
the two famous word pictures of
Happy Valley" and Fiddle and the
Bow" With vivid word painting, with
fiowery rhetoric with careful com
PARSONS and wOndrous description,
the speaker told stories of the past,
the present and the future, while his
talk always bore the one theme that a
life to be perfect should be a life of
contentment, that there was one pc
Rod of childhood and of youth and
that period should be enjoyed, that joy
of living and seeing others live in
peace and happiness was the truest
and highest attainment.
His pictures varied in words from
the names of Jeffries and Corbett to
the ideal of womanhood and of
angels, from the frog and the bee to
stars and universes, from soap bubbles
to the Garden of Eden. His language
brought tears and laughter as he
pictured the scenes of the death bed
or the most humorous side of life.
In the most serious parts of his adj
dress, the senator referred to the
danger of accumulation of The ma
tons wealth in the hands of the few,
of the seriousness of infidelism and
the JOY of Christian worship and liv-
ing, and preached the gospel of con-
tentment" and "the religion of love"
The lecture was one that will be
long remembered by the Yakima au-
dience. 1t bore many a message to
the hearts Of those present, and Bob"
Taylor will always find loyal friends
among those who attended the first
number of the Y. NJ. G. A. course this
season.