The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-22
and war
. TO BE GOLDSTEIN
FARGO SUBJECT
Well Known Speaker Comes
to City May Is, Under
K. @. Auspices

Peace and War, is the subject to be
discussed under the auspices OF Fargo
council of the knights of Columbus at
the Orpheum theatre, on the evening
of Friday. May %, by the well known
orator, debater and author, David
Goldstein Of Boston. The supreme Of
ficers OF the Knights Of Columbus,
who are conducting a nationwide lee
ture movement, have assigned Mr..
Goldstein for a lecture in this city.
In reporting his chautauqua work of
last summer the Pontiac GILL; Daily
Leader says: THE address OF David
Goldstein of Boston, secretary Boston
School of Political Economy, attracted
wide attention at the first Sunday
meeting OF the chautauqua yesterday"
"Mr. Goldstein is an interesting
speaker. gifted with a keen, penetrat-
ing intellect, a marvellous flow Of Ian
guage, and a trenchant, almost cold
blooded way of driving fact after fact
right home to his hearers. He does
not mince words, and every sentence
he utters is given in a way that almost
forces assent"
Once Socialist Leader.
Mr.. GoIdstein was formerly a fore
most leader in the socialist movement,
having been the first candidate of the
Socialist party for mayor of his home
city, Boston. He is said to have re-
signed from the socialist movement
twelve years ago after futile attempt
to get the organization to repudiate
some of it's teachings. His reasons
are outlined in a book called Social
ism, the Nation of Fatherlese Chill
dren," which has a circulation OF 40,-
600 copies; this book received the
commentator of Theodore Roosevelt
Samuel Gompers and other distin-
guished men.
The committee on arrangements an
nounces that Mr.. Goldstein will glad
ly answer all questions related to his
subject Peace and War'-at the con-
clusion of his address. This feature
of the speakers work adds zest to the
occasion, for Mr.. Goldstein is said 10
be past master in meeting friend and
foe face to face with a courteous but
decisive defense of his convictions.
the press near and far has a like
story to tell. The Providence Journal
saws: ''The readiness with which Mr..
Goldstein handled the queries which
were hurled at him, sometimes two or
three at a time, indicated his thorough
knowledge of his subject, and his abil-
ity to discuss it at all angles"
Speaking of Mr.. .Goldstein's work IN
San Francisco, The Monitor says:
There were 5000 people in Dream
land pavilion last night. That i'm
mense auditorium and its spacious
galleries was packed to the doors.
hundreds were obliged to stand; many
were turned away. The sea, of human
ity that greeted the speaker when ne
stepped forth must have been an IN
spring sight to him. To less cour-
ageous man the knowledge that hum
dreds of his severest critics We're
there might have been disconcertlng,
to say the least, but to Goldsteln
there never was a crowd big enough or
unsympathetic enough to do anything
but sharpen his wit the keener, and
reinforce his daring all the more"
"Goldstein's lecture was more tnan
a. lecture It was spectacle ana q
debate-one man against hundreds. Inc
air was surcharged with the electricity
of the conflict The dramatic suspense
was keener than in the most GREATNESS
play. To see that little Napoleon OF
the platform marshaling his forces
facts. facts, facts-against the guer-
lila warfare of his enemies, and mer-
ciIessly moving them down till they
were fiattened like a wheatneld after
a cyclone, was an intellectual treat
and a. sportsman's joy.
Mr.. Goldstein will begin MS al
dress promptly, the meeting to De held
at 8 o'clock p. m. sharp. ADMISSION
will be free to ALL