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uoeraceiy puoiisu iaisenoous ior luc at that, confusion may be lessened, la
verdict of being eloquent, of having al0ne. The cost in nearly every South
delivered a great speech, and gets com- n state would have been practically purp08e of misleading and deceiving bor lightened, speed accelerated and
plinientary pulls from all the news- the same. On this one item the cost tbeir readers and breaking their confi- results made more satisfactory. Again,
papers.yet nuounj Knows wnai ne u t0 tne wheat farmer or tne tne west dence in other members of their own
party. It is the game of the thief cry
said, or cares. Nothing is left behind would have been equally as great for
him. No seed have been sown. He the sacks in which to ship his wheat
furnished no ideas of himself, and
therefore, did not put others to think
ing. . Two college orations this jear, how
ever, have beeu notable exceptions to
this rule. One was the address deliv
ered by lion. Walter Page, the bril
liant young journalist, at the com
mencement exercises of the Normal
and Indus' rial school for girls at
Greensboro. Instead of making a
speech full of glittering nothings and
fulsome praise of the state, or rather
for that class who consider themselves
the state, he told some plain truths.
