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Butler was a prominent factor in American politics and Ameri- 

 can history and yet I think you will agree with me that he would 

 have had no chance to capture the prize at a beauty show. 



Abraham Lincoln was a statesman, whose equal we have 

 no knowledge of. He was a general such as the world never 

 knew. The whole nation knew him to love him and yet he could 

 doubtless have emptied a house or dismissed an audience of his 

 most loyal admirers in three minutes had he attempted to sing a 

 solo. 



Henry Grady of Atlanta electrified and held spell-bound 

 his hearers when he made that memorable speech at the banquet 

 in Boston, the influence of which hastened the reuniting of a di- 

 vided people and made us a unit with one government and one 

 flag, and yet had he prepared with his own hands that banquet, 

 I doubt not he would have been in no condition to talk and the 

 rest would have been too sick to hear. 



Jenny Lind electrified the people of two continents with her 

 wonderful voice and I would not forget that she got her inspira- 

 tion from the vast audiences that greeted her everywhere and 

 people who couldn't sing a bit. 



We think of George Washington, of Lincoln, of McKinley, 

 of Grant and Sherman, and Sheridan and Lee, of Patrick Henry 

 and Webster and Blackstone and Blaine and Ingalls, of Beecher 

 and Talmage and Moody and Sam Jones, of Booth and Barrett 

 and Denman Thompson and Joe Jefferson and Mary Anderson 

 and Lottie and Sarah Bernhard and Lillie Langtry, of Madame 

 Calve and Melba and Patti and Jenny Lind, of Child and Car- 

 negie and Astor and Tilden, of Hill and Harriman and Gould 

 and Vanderbilt and Rockefeller, of Roosevelt and Hughes and 

 Folk and Bryan and thousands of others in the industrial, polit- 

 ical, social, religious and commercial w r orld, and after we have 

 enumerated all of the historians and educators and lawyers and 

 merchants and philanthropists and railroad magnates and con- 

 gressmen and senators and representatives in every walk of life, I 

 want to say in all seriousness that there is not a single one of 

 them who is more important or more necessary in harmonizing 



