James Allen Rice

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Subjects:—

Social Parasites
Pearls and Swine
For Man or Mammon


James Allen Rice,


JAMES ALLEN RICE

WHAT NEWSPAPERS HAVE SAID ABOUT HIM.

The Springfield, (Ohio) Daily News,
There has been no address delivered to the big audiences at the Fairbanks Theater during the winter course of high class Sunday afternoon lectures that has been of greater force than that made yesterday afternoon by former Mayor James A. Rice of Canton.
Mr. Rice is a big man.  His physical makeup radiates force.  His ideas are in keeping with his powerful build and his blows are delivered with terrible energy.  He is an orator of the sort that audiences love.  His voice, perfectly modulated, capable of infinite graduation of modulation, his machine-gun fire of argument, his wholly pleasing mannerisms—above all his sincerity, which he could not hide, and an earnestness that seems an inspiration, combine to procure a type of speaker that is not often found.



The Daily Morning Sun (Springfield, O.)
Congressman Richmond P. Hobson sent a telegram stating that he could not be present and former Mayor James A. Rice, of Canton, spoke in his place in the afternoon program.  Mayor Rice held the afternoon audience as Governor Hanly held his listeners in the evening.


The Daily Morning Sun (Springfield, O.)
* * * * Taking for his subject, 'For Man or Mammon, the speaker delivered one of the most touching and beautiful appeals that has been made in any of these meetings. * * * *


The Coshocton (O.) Standard.
Although a young man he has acquired from experience a clear and accurate knowledge of human nature and men.  * * * * As a public speaker and debater he is the peer of any orator in this country.


The Stark County Democrat (Canton, O.)
* * * * He is eloquent and forceful, his language chaste, his construction ornate and his style and manner, combined with it all, carried conviction to the hearts of his hearers.  * * * *


The Daily Advertiser (Tiffin, O.)
* * * * He is gifted with a resonant voice trained to all the range of oratorical expression from the thunders of denunciation to the softest cadence of pity and pleading.  His facial expression and gestures suit the action to the word, and the audience was alternately immersed in argument, enlivened by biting satire, enthused by flights of eloquence, roaring with laughter, and moved to the tender sentiment of pity, just as the speaker willed.  * * * *


The Paterson Guardian (Paterson, N. J.)
Mr. Rice's address last night was a brilliant oratorical effort.  When he began to talk, the people in the audience thought they were going to be disappointed.  * * * * But Mr. Rice was only fooling.  He had sized the audience up while sitting on the stage.  With the finished art of an orator he knew how to handle his hearers.  Disappointment soon gave way to surprise, then came interest, then admiration, and in fifteen minutes Mr. Rice had that audience completely in his power.  He led them on by gradual stages, and before he finished he brought them to a pitch of enthusiasm rarely seen in a political gathering.  It was a wonderful exhibition of the power of a public speaker when his words find an echo in the hearts of his hearers.  * * * *



The same paper said editorially:
* * * * He began with gentle zephyrs, but soon had an oratorical gale in his grasp.  His speech was, withal, accompanied by so much of wit, humor, illustration, convincing argument, and merited denunciation, that his flights of oratory at times suggested the whirlwind as his auditors were fairly swept off their feet.  For over two hours that vast throng were glad to sit and stand and listen.  It was a splendid tribute.




The Findlay (O.) Morning Republican,
At the First Methodist church Sunday afternoon, Hon. James Allen Rice, ex-mayor of Canton, addressed an audience of nearly a thousand men.  He spoke under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A., on 'For Man or Mammon,' and by his great eloquence held his audience spellbound for more than an hour.  * * * *


The Evening Herald (Huntington. Ind.)
Kills All Wet Arguments.  Hon. J. A. Rice of Canton, Ohio, made Open Reply to Proctor's Speech.  Were No Apologies.  Great Audience Held Spellbound by orator.  Sincere Logic Marked Wonderful Speech.  Coliseum packed by record crowd Sunday evening—Address one of most forceful and magnetic ever given here.
Before an audience which exceeded by fully one thousand that which heard Senator Proctor Sunday afternoon, at the Coliseum, James A. Rice, ex-mayor of Canton, Ohio, devoted the first fifteen minutes of his address to answering chief arguments made by the Indiana Legislator.  As each shot went home he was greeted by round after round of applause.  * * * *






JAMES ALLEN RICE

WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT HIM.

A. E. Flindt, Gen. Secy. Y. M. C. A., Springfield, Ohio.
We have used J. A. Rice three times as a speaker for our big Men's Meeting.  He has measured up well.  He has something to say worth the hearing and knows how to say it in a bright and attractive manner.  He is a clean, inviting-looking man,—a gentleman.  On an average he has had eight hundred face him each time he was here, and I have yet to hear unfavorable comment.



D. W. Pugh, Acting Sec'y Y. M. C. A., Bowling, Green, Ohio.
On November 6, 1910, Hon. James A. Rice of Canton, delivered an address at the Opera House before a large audience on the subject of 'Good Citizenship.'  Every one present said it was the best address on that subject they had ever heard.  * * * *



Hon. S. D. Fess, President of Antioch College and Member of Congress.
* * * * It was just such an address as ought to be heard upon every platform of the country.  The patrons of our Chautauqua were greatly edified by his forceful presentation.  They are unanimous in their invitation for his return next year.  I wish for him access to many platforms in the country.



Prof. Lewis G. Westgate, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, concerning two addresses delivered by Mr. Rice in Gray Chapel.
The talks were a clear, forcible and stirring presentation of the new politics by a man of ideals who knew political conditions, and were interesting from start to finish.  I hope we may have him with us again.



Prof. George D. Black, Antioch College.
At the recent Antioch College Chautauqua the address of the Hon. James A. Rice on Sunday, June 18, 1911, was of such a high character that it is continually being spoken of by those who heard it as one of the best things in the entire program.  The fact that before he left the platform Mr. Rice was engaged by Dr. Fess to return next season is evidence of the immediate effect of his lecture.  * * * *



Judge A. E. Kerns, Findlay, Ohio.
During the Hancock County local option campaign, July, 1912, Hon. James A. Rice of Canton, Ohio, delivered six lectures in various parts of the county.  These lectures were fine, excellent in fact, and did the cause of local option very much good in this county.

While it was not my privilege to hear Mr. Rice, being chairman of the local option committee and very busy day and night, yet the many reports of his good work reached me daily, all being to the effect that Mr. Rice was as good as the best.  One highly educated gentleman said to me after hearing both Hon. Seaborn Wright and Mr. Rice, 'both lectures were fine, just grand, but to my mind Mr. Rice is the equal of the southern orator.'



Prof. Wm. E. Ashcroft, A. M., LL. D., Fostoria, Ohio.
Hon. James Allen Rice of Canton, Ohio, spoke at an open air meeting in College Park, Fostoria, on Sunday, the 28th ultimo, on 'Good Citizenship.'  Knowing Mr. Rice by reputation, we all expected a great address, and none was disappointed.  He bears the stamp of the man of affairs, but he is more than a man of affairs.  He has a fine presence, is a clear thinker, and enforces his thoughts with natural and pleasing eloquence.  His address, although a little more than two hours long, was listened to by the large audience with tireless attention.  It was both an inspiration and an uplift.



Henry Burden, Banker and Leading Citizen, Cazenovia, N. Y.
* * * * I regard Mr. James Allen Rice as a forceful and eloquent public speaker.  * * * *



W. H. Newton, Insurance, Earlville, N. Y.
* * * * I consider him one of the best speakers that it has been our good fortune to hear.  * * * * His convincing arguments on 'Social Parasites' have left a lasting and beneficial impression with us.



W. I. McCollough, Pres.  The Fountain Park Chautauqua Co., Remington, Ind.
Mr. Rice is an orator of the first rank and his experiences in public life afford him an insight into social conditions and public affairs which enables him to point out existing evils with startling force.  He is thoroughly optimistic, however, and his proposed remedies are in thorough harmony with the knowledge and spirit of the times.



C. H. Peck, Sec'y The Fountain Park Chautauqua Co.
Hon. James Allen Rice was one of the very strong men who came to our Chautauqua this year (1913).  His two lectures were full of forceful thought and were very much enjoyed by those privileged to hear him.  * * * *





JAMES ALLEN RICE
MR. RICE has never held high office or committed high crimes or misdemeanors which brought him into wide public notice, but merely as a private citizen with high ideals and an innately unselfish love for humanity has he won a place in the front rank of public lecturers.

He spent the first twenty years of his life on a farm; he has engaged in livestock, mercantile and manufacturing business; he has always taken an active interest and participation in local, state and national politics; he served his home city four years as Mayor; he has had many years experience as a practicing lawyer; and all these varied experiences have helped to develop in him a broad and deep appreciation of his fellow-men and the problems of life which they have to solve.

Mr. Rice is in truth a pioneer in the movement for clean politics, better social and civic conditions and the conservation of our human resources.  He was working for these things when it was the unpopular thing for men to do, and while many who now advocate them loudly were still speaking in whispers.  Before conventions, Granges, Y. M. C. A. and Church Federation mass meetings, Chautauqua and Lyceum audiences, and in local campaigns against the saloon, he has kept at it,—sacrificing many chances for political preferment and often suffering loss in his professional clientage,—without desire or effort to make money out of his lecturing or to commercialize his services to humanity.  Mr. Rice accepts only such honorarium as will cover his expenses and protect him against too great financial loss through absence from his business.

Probably no other man on the platform to-day is more wholesomely hated and feared by persons engaged in the liquor business or connected with its kindred evils than is Mr. Rice.  In his lecture, Social Parasites, he deals with this traffic in all its phases and analyzes its inevitable effects upon the individual and its awful drain upon the resources of society as few men have done or can do; and all in a spirit of kindness and fairness that totally disarms his opponents.

His lecture,Pearls and Swine, treats mainly of the child labor problem; and in the same chaste, exhaustive and unanswerable fashion as he handles the liquor question.

His lecture, For Man or Mammon, is an arraignment of the life spent in worship at the shrine of Mammon and an appeal for a life spent in service to God through service to humanity.  This lecture is especially appropriate for Memorial and Commencement Exercises, Sunday School conventions, and Church Federation and Y. M. C. A. mass meetings.

Mr. Rice also delivers many addresses on subjects suited to special occasions, all of his lectures and addresses being broad and comprehensive in their scope, and presenting various phases of human or social problems in a style and manner both entertaining and instructive.  This is why newspapers and people have said about him and his work such things as you find in this circular.

Mr. Rice's services may be secured through

The Coit Lyceum Bureau,
The Hippodrome Building,
Cleveland, Ohio.
The Empire Lyceum Bureau,
The Bastable Building,
Syracuse, New York.


Or by addressing Mr. Rice direct at his home in Canton, Ohio.




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