versa.

 

_Selections for Practise_

 

Note: In the following selections, those passages that may best be delivered 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