| Show MR TRAINS OX ON SATURDAY EVENING on saturday evening according to announcement no mr train made his third appearance pe arance as a lecturer in this city at the theatre where chefe a large audience had assembled sein bied bled to greet him he was introduced introduced by president brigham young at about half balf past 8 and then commenced a lecture or rather a talk such only as G F train is capable of making he said that according to all the rules of public aspea speaking k in and debate he ought not to be able to appointment for it was his four hundred and eightieth consecutive lecture and that in connection with traveling day and night over mountains rivers and plains waa was hard on any constitution clergymen en in the east would have the croup or if they reached preached twice on a sunday and once in ae the week and a politician could not be heard across the hall SPIKE SPIRE THE GUNS he then gave a ae lengthy 9 account count of his s labors since he left salt lake lade e about a year ago he did this Ws he said just to get acquainted quain ted with the audience he went east irom from this city to spike the gentile guns and to defeat the cullom bill he reached new york in september the day that corbin and fisk knocked gold down thirty per er cent in an hour he be received an invitation from the young mens christian association socia tion tiou to lecture all through the northwest for ninety nights at per night this was a nice little tea party that had been coral led in by the public 10 lecturers and he accepted the invitation for he wished to attend this dress circle party having havin g always been in the pit before VICTORY nor FOB THE DEMOCRATS he left new york for ohio which he reached just before the election and helped to carry the state for the democrats made three speeches in mozart hall and turned the city upside down with the fenian vote he visited louisville and organized a small earthquake in the commercial convention went to indianapolis and finally to chicago it was his fortune always to arrive in these big cities on the eve of some bome swindling election at chicago he found an alliance formed to rob the people of fifteen millions by the cop times the radical tribune and the republican VICTORY hC TORY rok FOR THE TRE republicans As he 1 haa had carried cincinnati for the demo brats ho he thought he would carry chicago for the republicans he spoke there on in saturday night and preached on sund sunday a night then went away down to lis lia richmond mat mattoon toon champee and davenport at the latter place he got hold of some chicago papers that charlatan said the tribune that mountebank said the journal that blatherskite said the publican republican He and that unmitigated ass george francis train said the times thank the lord has left chicago it it would not do for him to give it up that way so he telegraphed back to hire a hall for sunday nights he knew he could not have it for week days because the politicians wanted it and he took it for sunday night because clergymen for the last quarter of a century have devoted sunday morning to politics and there would be no harm in him preaching temperance and religion on sunday nights if beecher Is allowed to turn his church into a theatre he though the might turn a theatre into a church WIPES OUT CHICAGO PAPERS As the chicago papers had bad spoken evil of him he would wipe them out with an epigram which he described as boiled down thunder and lightning the wiping out process was accomplished with the following eight line epigram when republican 9 1 I journal tribune 11 times conspire with english railroad lines prostitute their editorial page to sell their country they must change their guage Chi cagos corrupt and venal press throws out signals of distress but irish votes will not besold be sold by free trade thieves for english gold ap laughter SPLIT UP that split up the free trade swindle in the northwest north west as completely as he be subsequently squelched the cullom bill and the english invasion of red river he then described a meeting he held at la crosse wis where twelve hundred persons paid fiat nifty fifty cent cents each to hear hirthe him the orator of thy the people while a political lecture that bad had been advertised three weeks free had only a hundred and twenty present and they adjourned to his lecture talk had been cheap chey in this country but he was making it dear and respectable ho he then related his journey ings inga to the head bead waters watery of the Mis sippi to st paul minn and back through wisconsin to illinois and chicago A QUACK entertainment on this 10 journey urney the day after delivering one ole of his lectures at winona the managers of the affair although they made out of him apologised apologized to the public because it was a quack entertainment the chicago press came in for another effort and the orators powers of invective were taxed in describing it he said it was the most blackguard venal beast ial subsidized press on the face of the globe to get got the details of a murder rape seduction or prize fight their reporters would run wild but to morals and temperance they paid no attention EDUCATION A SWINDLE the lecturer gayea dig at the systems of education iu lu the fashionable schools of the country at ann harbor he revisited visited a university ver sity and a class of sixteen young ledies IP dies were examined in geometry the audience were set in roars of laughter laugh ter by the lecturers illustrations on the blackboard of the geometrical reasoning of this class he knew that fashionable boarding school education in new now york was a swindle he has three children upon whose education he has spent ent eat ten thousand dollars and he did not SE elleve believe that one of them could spell the word separate correctly and the other day they told him that the three greatest historians in the world worl d were alexander the great juleus caser and cholera borbus yet these children are great on adam smith moral science geometry and algebra he ridiculed the idea of spending so much time in studying latin in these days of french german italian and american said nobody knew know latin and it was never used axce except t in congress in a speech on the alaia alaga alabama ma claims TRAIN WORSE THAN linack BLACK CROOK on the of september ho he hurried to new york there he tried to rent several halls but was refused they would not even let him have niclos theatre for they declared that train was worse than the blaek black crook 11 finally begot he got tammany the first night he was noticed by the tribune the second by the gemes times the third by the post the fourth by the herald all of or whom were down on him the fifth night he received a notice from Tammany that he could not have the hall any longer he then obtained the bowery and preached there sixteen sunday nights at these meetings he advertised himself as the rev george francis train CRUSHED WITH AN EPIGRAM the papers continued browbeating brow beating him tapers and he e determined to stop them he returned to tammany and bennett of the herald sent bent three reporters to take notes said the lecturer 1 I saw at once that old bennett was coming out for me for the presidency two and a half years before the time I 1 anew knew I 1 should be politically damned if the editors praised me before the time said 1 I 1 I 1 am a ruined man I 1 will crush that with an epigram the following was the result bennett bryant greeley weed yellow cucumbers gone to seed octogenarians impotent mean they cut up better when green THE N Y HERALD HEBALD ENRAGED this so enraged the herald that he tha lecturer was styled in its columns atheist li 41 infidel blasphemer and he was acau accused ed of calling cailing prince arthur a sow WIPES wirE sOUT OUT BENNETT he wiped out bennett with the following epigram the meanest thing ihnow I 1 know on earth Is a renegade scot of irish birth A crook in his brain a squint in his eye his body and soul a 11 living v 1 lle lie 1 j e like the cuttlefish with wit biall his 1 inky n y track or pole cat with cologne upon his back his blackmail money may hide for a time his infamous record of sin and crime by and by ill write an epigram that will make his household curse and damn kicked out of american society this new apostle of christian piety calls me atheist infidel ill make it hot for him in hell GREELEY greeney AND PHILLIPS ARE ABE SQUELCHED said the lecturer old greeley had called me a mountebank wendell phillips said I 1 was a charlatan so sol soi I 1 determined to wipe them out with an epigram they were gone through and done for as follows what sadder sound than piteous whine of men who live beyond their time what sadder signals of distress than empty benches and silent fanaticism is come to grief when doa dog 0 ats eats do dog an and ana d thief sells thief 1 2 says r phillips h alps to beeley greeley old man you lie ile liel 11 says greeley to phillips root hog or die the certainty of being elected president in 1872 as on a former occasion was illustrated on the black board after a further recital of his travels and lectures he again said it was a wonder that he had the physical strength to fill his engagement ga at the salt lake theatre on saturday night but ascribed it to the fact that he was a strict observer of the laws of life and never drank wine or liquor he never chewed tobacco and said he 1 I never committed adultery in fact am almost a mormon no wonder they call me a crazy mani mall the lecturer then said sow now INOW having proved that I 1 possess more than ordinary physical strength this is the time to prove that I 1 possess intellectual superiority when you leave this house tonight to night you have got to admit one thing that I 1 am either a fact or a falsity either a great truth or a great liar that I 1 am either a statesman or a gigantic fraud it can only be done in one way that is to have no subject for the lecture but to let the men and women present say what they wish me to talk about for two minutes at a time look at all this people against one mani when a man goes into a town and says I 1 am a splendid sportsman you judge whether he is s or not by by the number of birds he hits if he miss hem them you would say we will have no more of his brag he must bring down the birds or oryon you yon detect the I 1 impostor m costor if I 1 submit to the test I 1 have p proposed ro posed you can readily judge me he then inquired upon what subject he should talk and THE CULLOM BILL was chosen the lecturer then related that when he reached chicago after leaving here he found that bross colfax the chicago chiago tribune and sam bowles had organized themselves into a sort of primary to getup get up a gigantic utah war i a la general johnson and to rob th the e united stat states es treasury of forty millions more he seb set to work and checkmated check mated bross and then went down to springfield and opened out on bowles with a four lined epigram the springfield republican and worcester tersey spy too poor to live too mean to die Harlan harian Har lans ians a brick brlek but the smallest of souls Is his one horse editor samuel bowles bowies P I 1 this in connection with public meetings at which he denounced bowles wiped him out and made the place too hot for him and he is about leaving for europe he returned to illinois and there told the people that utah was the only place in which he no had found no prostitutes pros almshouses clergymen doctors or lawyers the only place where a woman could traverse the streets at all hours of the day or night without fear of being insulted where water was used at the sacrament instead of wine the only place where men women and children were dressed in home home man mau manufactured af clothing and he said if you interfere with brigham young and the mormons cormons Mor mons so help me G d ill tear down a gentile church ortho 11 immense cheering CHINESE QUESTION the chinese question was the next subject chosen the lecturer said it was time it was settled he was in favor of chinese emigration the chinese have as much right to come here as aslany tny any of the nationalities of europe and as well forbid the english lish irish scotch or ny y other coming here as the chinese the excitement against this class tot tor 0 emigrants is the work of politicians the country is big enough for all and if the poor white folks here are smart enough they can make chinese labor a leverage to raise themselves from the position of hewers of wood and drawers of water that they are occupying THE ose ONE max MAN POWER rowen the one man power was the next topic urged in very loud tones by a solitary voice from the gallery the lecturer said he believed in it and then detailed some great financial plans that he originated and tried to carry out on that principle but failure in which has caused the bankruptcy of the transcontinental line of railroad mr train dur dun during 1 his remarks on this subject said that tze the tho one man power was an absolute necessity to enforce morality upon the people THE EUROPEAN WAR the european war led to a lengthy and eloquent description of the first napoleon from some celebrated writer mr train by means of the blackboard gave his idea of the course the war would take and expressed the opinion that russia would absorb most of the present nationalities of europe and that the political divisions of that continent would be materially changed lle lie he ile did not favor france would like to do so for he could not forget that if it had not been for french aid american independent could not have been secured HIS JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLD worm in conclusion the lecturer described his journey round the world saying he e expected rec pec to land in england in about three months and that it was not improbable that he should again become the inmate of a british bastile for about eighteen months he might during his journey be lost in the sea or perish by the ladrone pira pina pirates A but he did not believe any such thing b bet did believe that all the efforts of the politicians could not prevent the people of the united states making him the occupant of the white house in 1872 |
