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Show The greatest campaign orator that this campaign has brought prominently promi-nently bsfore the public is Colonel Bob Iogersoll of Illinois. He is the author of the phrase, "An honest Gcd 13 the noblest work of man," and j also of the following choice sentences:' L&t the people ha'.e. Let Go i thretn. I will educatu them, and I will dctja-ic and defy hiin. "Who can worship God? Who can bow the knee to such a monst-r? Who cin pray to such a liend? Inycrsoll'-i Lecture on l'The Gods." Ingersoll'a ideas of God are of a piece with his opinion of democracy, ot which this is a specimen : There is no', a solitary democrat from the north in cngria to-day that doe? not fe.-l ashamed of thj lartt lh:tt he come3 from a fr-; ttv.e. 'I li-y think tlifl finest tit'ie of nobility in tint world is to have owned a human b'-irg, ar.d to have made that humm buing work f-T you, and then pay him wi:h stripes for his labor upun his naked back. That i the iJ'.-a of democratic nobility. |