The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-12-13
BISHOP QUAYLE
GIVES ADDRESS
sHAkEsPEARE's TRAGEDY OF
GREATNESS WAS SUBJECT OF
LECTURE GIVEN LAST NIGHT
AT THE A. C. BY BISHOP WIN. A.
ouAYLE.

Brains are common. Everybody
has few, but IL you have a good
amount they do not worry you. The
world does not lack in brains, but it
does lack in goodness and what ii
needs is enough heart to irrigate the
brains. Cassius had brains, but no
goodness of heart" were the words
spoken last night at the A. c. armory
by Bishop William A. Quayle in an ad-
dress filed with burning earnestness.
The subject Of the great discourse was
Shakespeare's Tragedy of Greatness.
Speaking in the simplicity Of the
English language and swaying an
audience at his will, Bishop Quayle
gave one of the most powerful adj
dresses last night ever heard on the A.
c. platform. Smiles, laughs and tears
were mixed and the great speaker
moved his audience as he willed, in a
manner Rnd with a force that was
magnetic and almost miraculous. He
said in part:
Julius Caesar was the tragedy of
all Shakespeare's genius. Critics will
say that the play should not have been
called Julius Caesar. but critics are
people who cannot write, and a writer
has Just as much allowance naming
his own play as a man does his own
children-provided his wife will let
him.
Julius Caesar was the compelling
force of the drama 1t Is because of
Julius Caesar that we notice the other
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that he was not around enough, In the
play, but the man" who is always
around is not the great man. Often
the man to whom whole town or
country will pay homage is he of the
monumental and mighty type, who does
not sit around, but whom people gath
er around Julius Caesar was not at
his greatest in this drama, but he is
the compelling force Of the play.
"Cassius was that man with the
brain, but not the heart. He was the
man who looked through you, not at
you, and he had a lean and hungry
look His great danger was that he
looked upon a lean world and saw a
lean world He never laughed.
"Cassius had a disease. With what
NAoSAoO was C1SStuS dllIlGlGuE Inc
disease of Cassius was Caesar. Cas-
sius had egotism and was burning with
envy and with the disease which was in
him-Caesar.
Brutus was politician and an
idealist. but he was not shrewd enough
to know when he was being worked.
He was loved man, but when he lost
his ideal he knew not where to tread
Brutus was the victim of the brainy
Cassius and allowed his ideal to fall
and in so doing he allowed Brutus to
fall.
"The loyalty of Mark Anthony never
waivers The secret of his success was
love-love for Caesar. He wept in the
presence of the great throng of Roman
citizens and in that death speech he
delivered one of the three greatest
orations In the English language. The
reason we admire Anthony is because
Of his loyalty and his loyalty staid him
unto the end and his reward was the
satisfaction of the light of Caesars
love falling on his matchless charac-
ter.
THE reason Julius Caesar is the
greatest character in the play is that
all the events center around him. Gaze
sar's name was the sun and the other
characters the planets. So great was
he that had all Rome been carried
away. nothing would have been lost,
had Julius Caesar remained. In his
last hour he showed his love for Rome
and his failure to consent for the re-
turn of his eyt1ed friend showed that
he was living for Rome. even though
he was beset on all sides by his enc
mics"
In the course of his remarks Bishop
Quayle spoke of the people that were
always living in the was" life. Cas-
sius was one of these and always had
to speak highly of the things that
were" Politics were never as clean
as they are today and when the maya
zine writer's have finished their dope
they will be cleaner than ever. The
world is better now than ever, and the
time of the man that is always harping
about the things OF the past, has gone
and he must get out of the way. Cas-
sius had to get out of the way and so
wifi the modern man that continues In
the life of was {"
The address was filled with many
humorous conceptions of life and phil
osophy and large sized nuggets of COM
mon sense were handed out with sur.
prising rapidity His word pictures
were marvellous and he held his audi
enee perfectly tense. The large crowd
pronounced it one of the greatest dis