3 ey f : Militant Biucher™ a4 oN A eA Eee - ae lips ° . « : } Ne a > oe > re 4 Oe “ ¥ rh tae a oh ti The remarkable career of Henry Ward ‘Beecher, preacher, public speaker and advocate of unpopular causes, has been honored indirectly by Uncle Sam. Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, which he founded in 1847, has been designated a national historic landmark. An early campaigner against , slavery, Beecher once auctioned a 10-year-old slave girl from his pulpit. Englanders who He aided the New hastened to Kansas to keep it fram becoming a slave state. He campaigned for Lincoln. Later, though a staunch Republican, he showed that he sets country above party. That was in 188@<- when he bolted his party presidential nom-~ inee, James G. Blaine, believing him dis- honest, and supported Grover Cleveland. Incidentally, when a year later he was the chief speaker at a Cleveland jollifica-. lion meeting, he set an example which BARRY | ne ~GOLDWATFP for all time might well FOLLOW. pes t misno re we We ““ s, wa ce en nt se st “Flis fir such in our man.” Then followed taken realized that r he ec Be at th se au pl ap ic if terr t No . wn do sat d an ch ee sp his de ma d ‘he ha se. all orators have been as wi |