Finch's Lecture

The temperance lecture of J. B. Finch, of Nebraska, delivercd in Uuiversity Hall Sunday afternoon was attended by a fair sized audience, and it was attentively llstened to for nearly two hours. The subject was so ably and logieally presented that when the speaker stuck to his text he convinced his hearers and evidently had nearly all in sympathy with hiin, but being a lawyer, he could not refrain iïorn letting it run into politics. He showed poor judgment in violating one of the best laws rhetoric laya down for public speakers. It is to the effect that in persuasive discourse no extraneous matter shonld be introduced which would excite the autagoiiisin of a large portion of the hearers. Xow he greatly erred when he took especial palm bitterly to sttack the Republican party. He charged it with being a protection party in his own State and a high tariff party in this State. There is no foundation whaterer for this chai ge, and it 8 extremely unfair and unjust in botli instances. Then too, whatisit tohim that the party did not adopt a set of resolutions at the East Saginaw conyoiition? Does !ie prefer the oft, boneless, wisliywashy trash adopted by the Democratie convention at Lansing ? Aftr acknowledging that the Republican party would surely be defeated if it declared for prohibition, he charges it with cowardice for not doing so. Now suppose it dld thus declare itself hik] was defeated, how much better off would the cause of temperance bo with its direct and avowed eneinies, the Democrats, in power The dampening efl'ect these lnjudicious reuiarks bad on the audlence was quite noticeable, and it was generally feit they were especklly out of place in a Sunday lectnre.