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Show BOUKKE COCHRAN'S OEATOHY. Bourke Cockran's speech against imperialism im-perialism at Central Music hall. Wednesday Wed-nesday night, was .', masterful effort-logical effort-logical as well as thrillingly eloquent, writes John F. Finerty in the Chicago Citizen. He is one of the great orators of the period a man who rescues oratory ora-tory from the deep damnation of the type-written essay. We hid never heard Mr. Cockran before, and we are delighted delight-ed with him. In the course of "our journalistic career, we have heard, and reported, such masters of language as Wendell Phillips, Henry Ward Beeeher, Robert (J. Inffersoll.'-James A. Garfield, Conklinsr, Emory Storrs and Lu ther Lanin Mills we put him last not because he is least, but the young-and young-and we can say, with good conscience, con-science, that Bourke Cockran is the peer of the best of them. In fhct. we have never heard his superior in iwint of matter and manner. His voice, too, is clear, penetrating and of lasting quality. |