The Monticellonian., 1917-01-11

zier and | lifted up our voices and
gave tremendous cheer.
We had asked and pied just one
fave from our fellow Gnothautiians in
that meeting. Ii was that they should
cheer when we did. They now rose 10
the task and swelled the uproar. The
other visitors. slightly surprised. joined
In. A bright smile burst out on Boggs'
face and he plunged ahead with re-
doubled energy.
1t was certainly grand grafton. We
had TO admit II. Boggs sent the Roman
empire bowling down to the abysmal
depths of degradation in six minutes
by the watch. and grabbed up Spain
without even pause for breath. once
again he scared and once again we
Gnothautiiuns allowed cheer to burst
from lis. overcome by his eloquence.
There is nothing so contagious rs IN
extempore cheer from the audience.
Everybody picked 1t up and the old
hall fairly rocked. II WIS elixir fer
BnggS He took Il deep breath. shook
his head slightly, as If to indicate tllar
what had transpired was merely
warming-up exercise, and then liz went
at the rest OF that Grafton like a lion
insurging against all Africa. Within
five minutes he had left the truck and
had sllidded into extempore eloquence
with an average of four tapSes in gram
mar per lungful Of speech.
1t was magnificent. We cheered him
Mt every pause. The Adelphiaus We're
getting nervous now and the chairman
tried to rap the meeting 10 order. Bat
he might rs well have said "HsSh' a.
a windstorm. Boggs was in full career
He was young man of large che t de-
velopment and great endurance, tau-
pied with voice which howled and
shrieked like Il steam siren us he swept
dizZily from climax to climax. He set
tied the Spaniards, demolished Nj
poleon and then Went back and kicked
over the Greeian civilization in four
hoarse yelts. We rose to our feet and
cheered him wildly He Numbered
down to the present, fought four revo-
lutionary battles In one ehromatic
whoop, and then apotheosiZed Lincoln
with an upward swoop of the arm
which sent him Keeling backward to
the wall. Never had the society heard
anything like 1t. We got upon oin
chairs to emphasize our appreciation.
The chairman hammered frantically
and several sergeants Mt arms came
over to us and talked threateningly.
But what could they do? When you
invite hall full of people t0 listen 10
your spe ches you can't throw them
out for applaudng them.
Boggs was perspirins freely aud tic
light in his eyes was Wild It was his
greatest triumph and he intended 10
gorge himself on It. In another ten
minutes he had Tapped up American
history and had settled down conforta-
bly, though Mechanically into discus
sion Of present-day problems. We en-
couraged him us best we could and the
result warmed our hearts. Il was GER
tainly pleasant to extend Il friendly
hand to II shrinking freshman. and to
assure him about four times minute
that the world was entirely with him
And amt it true, | ask of You gath
cred here tonight if the rich are not
getting richer and the poor my fellow
citizens. sinking slowly dow into the
Shiny jaws Of the slough eli despond2@
"Hurrah - We answered frahtieallY
And then You take the money
power. Who's got all the money in
this eountrHf tell you, little do we
realize the gravity of this here eoun=
Try at this situation The dollar that
the poor man earns by the sweat of his
brow is filched forth from his pocket
by the siren call Of the financial oeto-
pus.
'Hurrah - we yelled again.
You say politics! Bah, Politics II
rotten. We think we are free men in
America, but what good does IA vote
do? The most rotten and ohliqutouS
friend of the classes has got more
power | say than IA million free-born
voters of the masses. of whom we are
some right here in this room tonight"
"Hurrah, hurrah hurrah for the
masses :"
We didn't have to lead these cheers
The rest of the visitors were frantic
with delight, and us Boggs responded
m avarr eheor with another superhu-
man shout OF iefiance against wicked /
ness they lau he'd and shrieked With I
glee. AS foo S Gnothautiians. we sat /
more or less q let, partly from eXhaus-
ton and pan " from a solemn joy .
which was &c ding our entire beings.
Boggs had nh .ady spoken three-quar-