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Show MYSTIFYING AN AUDIENCE. There goes the rounds 'of the press a little anecdote of the days of the polished Andrew Jackson, says the Butte Inter-Mountain. In the campaign cam-paign preceding tho gratifying triumph tri-umph of that sterling exponent of American culture, a certain J.ackson-ite J.ackson-ite found himself in a county in which an orator for the opposition had spoken spo-ken the evening before. Hence, when he rose to soothe with the music of forensic grace, he realized that unusual un-usual effort was essential. He 6poke some moments' without applause, then his local manager whispered: "Hand 'cm Latin, Josh. Th other feller stuffed 'cni with Latin last night. It was great." The Jacksonlte.was puzzled. puz-zled. His education "had not Included the unselfish Cicero ' or the trite Caesar. But he rose nobly to the occasion. oc-casion. Just as he had to his feet. Reaching a breathing climax, he paused paus-ed pompously, stretched "forth a majestic ma-jestic hand over the learned concourse and bellowed: "E pluribus -unum, Sic semper tyrannus' Habeas corpus!" cor-pus!" The effect was electrical. The audience broke Into applause and America was "saved," for ' Andrew Jackson carried the county. But isn't this sort of oratory mostly most-ly along this line? to be serious. After all. has tho English of our lead-, ers, polished and learned as It often has been, in later days, really meant much more? We have Senator Ray-ner Ray-ner for authority that nobody in Washington will tell the truth, and in campaign after campaign, who dares analyze conscientiously any great Issue? Is-sue? We demand this sort pf Latin, and. hence we get It. For the politician poli-tician merely supplies the demand. |