Show IS POWER as a public speaker was HIS H the foundation of his success and and whilo while it is obscured by the superstructure ture turo that was reared roared upon it it can not not- bo be entirely overlooked as IS the returning anniversary of or his birth calls increasing ling ding attention to t the tho a widening influence of or his work With no military career to dazzle the oye eye or excite the imagination tion with no public service to make mike his name namo familiar to the reading public his elevation to the presidency would have been impossible without his oratory Tho The eloquence of Demosthenes and and Cicero were no more necessary to their work vork and Lincoln deserves to have his name written written t on the tho scroll with theirs WILLIAM J J. BRYAN r |