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in a moderate pitch are printed in ordinary (roman) type.

      Those which may be rendered in a high pitch--do not make the mistake of

      raising the voice too high--are printed _in italics_. Those which might

      well be spoken in a low pitch are printed in _CAPITALS_.

      These arrangements, however, are merely suggestive--we cannot make it

      strong enough that you must use your own judgment in interpreting a

      selection. Before doing so, however, it is well to practise these

      passages as they are marked.

      _Yes, all men labor. RUFUS CHOATE AND DANIEL WEBSTER_ labor, say

      the critics. But every man who reads of the labor question knows

      that it means the movement of the men that earn their living

      with their hands; _THAT ARE EMPLOYED, AND PAID WAGES: are

      gathered under roofs of factories, sent out on farms, sent out

      on ships, gathered on the walls._ In popular acceptation, the

      working class means the men that work with their hands, for

      wages, so many hours a day, employed by great capitalists; that

      work for everybody else. Why do we move for this class? "_Why_,"

      asks a critic, "_don't you move FOR ALL WORKINGMEN?" BECAUSE,

      WHILE DANIEL WEBSTER GETS FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR ARGUING THE

      MEXICAN CLAIMS, there is no need of anybody's moving for him.

      BECAUSE, WHILE RUFUS CHOATE GETS FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR

      MAKING ONE ARGUMENT TO A JURY, there is no need of moving for

      him, or for the men that work with their brains_,--that do

      highly disciplined and skilled labor, invent, and write books.

      The reason why the Labor movement confines itself to a single

      class is because that class of work _DOES NOT GET PAID, does not

      get protection. MENTAL LABOR is adequately paid_, and _MORE THAN

      ADEQUATELY protected. IT CAN SHIFT ITS CHANNELS; it can vary

      according to the supply and demand_.

      _IF A MAN FAILS AS A MINISTER, why, he becomes a railway

      conductor. IF THAT DOESN'T SUIT HIM, he goes West, and becomes

      governor of a territory. AND IF HE FINDS HIMSELF INCAPABLE OF

      EITHER OF THESE POSITIONS, he comes home, and gets to be a city

      editor_. He varies his occupation as he pleases, and doesn't

      need protection. _BUT THE GREAT MASS, CHAINED TO A TRADE, DOOMED

      TO BE GROUND UP IN THE MILL OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND, THAT WORK SO

      MANY HOURS A DAY, AND MUST RUN IN THE GREAT RUTS OF

      BUSINESS,--they are the men whose inadequate protection, whose

      unfair share of the general product, claims a movement in their

      behalf_.

      --WENDELL PHILLIPS.

      _KNOWING THE PRICE WE MUST PAY, THE SACRIFICE WE MUST MAKE, THE

      BURDENS WE MUST CARRY, THE ASSAULTS WE MUST ENDURE--KNOWING FULL

      WELL THE COST--yet we enlist, and we enlist for the war. FOR WE

      KNOW THE JUSTICE OF OUR CAUSE, and we know, too, its certain

      triumph.

      NOT RELUCTANTLY THEN, but eagerly_, not with _faint hearts BUT

      STRONG, do we now advance upon the enemies of the people. FOR

      THE CALL THAT COMES TO US is the call that came to our fathers_.

      As they responded so shall we.

      "_HE HATH SOUNDED FORTH A TRUMPET that shall never call retreat.

      HE IS SIFTING OUT THE HEARTS OF MEN before His judgment seat.

      OH, BE SWIFT OUR SOULS TO ANSWER HIM, BE JUBILANT OUR FEET,

      Our God is marching on_."

      --ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE.

      Remember that two sentences, or two parts of the same sentence, which

      contain changes of thought, cannot possibly be given effectively in the

      same key. Let us repeat, every big change of thought requires a big

      change of pitch. What the beginning student will think are big changes

      of pitch will be monotonously alike. Learn to speak some thoughts in a

      very high tone--others in a _very_, _very_ low tone. _DEVELOP RANGE._ It

      is almost impossible to use too much of it.

      _HAPPY AM I THAT THIS MISSION HAS BROUGHT MY FEET AT LAST TO

      PRESS NEW ENGLAND'S HISTORIC SOIL and my eyes to the knowledge

      of her beauty and her thrift._ Here within touch of Plymouth

      Rock and Bunker Hill--_WHERE WEBSTER THUNDERED and Longfellow

      sang, Emerson thought AND CHANNING PREACHED--HERE IN THE CRADLE

      OF AMERICAN LETTERS and almost of American liberty,_ I hasten to

      make the obeisance that every American owes New England when

      first he stands uncovered in her mighty presence. _Strange

      apparition!_ This stern and unique figure--carved from the ocean

      and the wilderness--its majesty kindling and growing amid the

      storms of winter and of wars--until at last the gloom was

      broken, _ITS BEAUTY DISCLOSED IN THE SUNSHINE, and the heroic

      workers rested at its base_--while startled kings and emperors

      gazed and marveled that from the rude touch of this handful cast

      on a bleak and unknown shore should have come the _embodied

      genius of human government AND THE PERFECTED MODEL OF HUMAN

      LIBERTY!_ God bless the memory of those immortal workers, and

      prosper the fortunes of their living sons--and perpetuate the

      inspiration of their handiwork....

      Far to the South, Mr. President, separated from this section by

      a line--_once defined in irrepressible difference, once traced

      in fratricidal blood, AND NOW, THANK GOD, BUT A VANISHING

      SHADOW--lies the fairest and richest domain of this earth. It is

      the home of a brave and hospitable people. THERE IS CENTERED ALL

      THAT CAN PLEASE OR PROSPER HUMANKIND. A PERFECT CLIMATE ABOVE a

      fertile soil_ yields to the husbandman every product of the

      temperate zone.

      There, by night _the cotton whitens beneath the stars,_ and by

      day _THE WHEAT LOCKS THE SUNSHINE IN ITS BEARDED SHEAF._ In the

      same field the clover steals the fragrance of the wind, and

      tobacco catches the quick aroma of the rains. _THERE ARE

      MOUNTAINS STORED WITH EXHAUSTLESS TREASURES: forests--vast and

      primeval;_