Lee Francis Lybarger

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Lee Francis Lybarger


LEE FRANCIS LYBARGER
THINKER AUTHOR ORATOR MAN OF SCIENCE

LEE FRANCIS LYBARGER


It is safe to say we have in him a modern Patrick Henry.

IN presenting a distinguished member of the Philadelphia Bar to the lyceum public, the Community Chautauquas also presents a typical man of science.  No scientist of this great age has been more patient or persistent in his search for truth.

Lee Francis Lybarger is a student, thinker, lawyer, scholar, investigator.  And his investigations have followed along every line of human thought and research.


A Notable Youthful Ambition
Mr. Lybarger is equipped, both by nature and education, for the great work which he seeks to accomplish.  He went to college with but one purpose: To carry the truths of science and history to the homes and hearts of the common people.  It was his youthful ambition so to master the facts and principles of science as to make them the most attractive and entertaining subjects on the lecture platform.

That he has succeeded in so noble and laudable an ambition there is abundant evidence.  Newspapers from coast to coast have eulogized his work in terms of highest praise.

Standing above six feet in height, Mr. Lybarger looks every inch the orator and statesman.  He has a deep and powerful voice.  It is clear, resonant, and penetrative.  His enunciation of words is rapid and distinct.  His sentences are clear-cut, crisp, and graphic.  And above all, he has that sincerity and earnestness of purpose which alone make eloquence possible.



Facts and Figures Based on Highest Authority
Few men have ever been able so to combine scholarship and oratory as to entertain and enthrall public audiences with gems of thought from philosophy and science.

And this result he secures, not by dealing with things superficial and transient; but by presenting upon any subject discussed, the most profound truths within the wide, and ever-widening, scope of mind.  His facts and figures represent the highest authority obtainable.  He is much less a follower than a leader in economic thought.

For many years Mr. Lybarger was engaged in giving serial lectures.  These covered nearly every branch of general science, from astronomy to sociology and ethics.  There are those who regard him as one of the profoundest thinkers of the age in psychology and education.  And he has the honor of having attracted to his lectures on political economy probably the largest audiences ever assembled to hear such discussions.



Audiences Increase to Five Thousand
One illustration will suffice.  At the Miami Valley Chautauqua, at the close of the third series, his hearers had increased from forty to three thousand, with at least one audience of five thousand, and this at the morning sessions.  Such an achievement is probably without a parallel in the whole history of chautauquas.  Mr. Lybarger has been a pioneer in expounding political and industrial problems from the lecture platform.  Free from partisan strife and bias, his peerless presentations of the economic facts and ethical principles involved in railroads, corporations, trusts, swollen fortunes, and the tariff, have won him an enviable reputation.  Fearless in thought and investigation, he is equally fearless in giving the results of his investigations.  He is the orator of the cause of labor, the unwavering defender of justice and freedom, the exponent, exemplar, and prophet of the civilization that is yet to be.  If unable to secure Bryan or La Follette, book Lee Francis Lybarger.





SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
or the
PSYCHOLOGY OF SUCCESS

How do those who succeed differ from those who fail?
How do those who are leaders differ from those who are led?
Why is one master and another slave, one employer and another employee?
In the Struggle for Existence do the fittest or the unfit survive?
What constitutes being the fittest?
Did Napoleon get his power through his imperial armies, or did he get his armies through the power of his imperial personality?
Is Poverty due to the injustice of Monopoly—or to the fact of inefficiency?

There is a certain type of Character, a certain combination of Faculties and Powers, which have always given their possessor Fame and Fortune—and always will.  SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST is a portrayal of the conditions of the struggle for existence and of those characteristics of brain and heart which best enable the individual to survive.  It unfolds the psychology of Success.  It dramatizes and impersonates those heroic traits and stalwart qualities which have distinguished that long line of Warriors, Rulers, Statesmen, Leaders, Inventors, and Reformers whom the world calls Great.



ROMANCE OF RICHES

This lecture tells the true story of Great American Fortunes.
It gives their History, Source, Size, and Significance.
It is filled with interesting and vital facts and figures.
It tells who the rich are—and why—who the poor are and why.
It portrays the universal passion—the greed for gold.
It has for its Central Theme the means and methods of GETTING RICH.
It marks the dramatic close of ten centuries of Westward Migration.
Abstracts from this lecture were quoted in the Wall Street Journal.
Mingled with its statistics is an abundance of wit and humor.



PLAUDITS OF THE PUBLIC PRESS

Was conceded to be the best ever delivered in this city.—
Wheeling (W. Va.) Intelligencer.


One of the best thinkers on economic and social questions in this country.—
Toledo (Ohio) News.


The simplest and most comprehensive elucidation of the problem ever heard in this city.—
Springfield (Ohio) Daily Sun.


His magnificent mind is trained and scholarly and he has a tremendous grasp of truth.  He is Socrates and Demosthenes in one.—
Joliet (Ill.) News.

I do not believe his efforts have ever been surpassed.—Hon. Robt. Tucker in Toledo (O.) Blade.




GET AND GIVE OF THE TARIFF
A Presentation of the Tariff Question from the Standpoint of Bookkeeping, of Profit and Loss.  What Do You Get?  What Do You Give?

THIS IS a non-partisan lecture on an intensely partisan subject.  It presents the tariff not as a theory but as a fact—a system of taxation.  It explains what the tariff is, how it works, and whom it benefits.  The rich results of 20 years of investigation are here presented.  It gives the amount of the tariff-tax, who pays it, and who gets it.  It shows the injustice of both protection and revenue only.  It is rational, fair, interesting, lucid, non-partisan, and practical.  Its view-point is original, its analysis profound, its conclusions final.



THE TARIFF
WHAT IT IS; HOW IT WORKS; WHOM IT BENEFITS
In this volume, recently issued from the press, Mr. Lybarger has written the only complete treatise on the Tariff in the English language.  It is an encyclopedia of facts, figures, and Tariff History.  The arguments for and against Protection, Revenue, and Free Trade are here presented in a popular form for the average reader, and are expressed in terms of his own vocabulary and experience.  The analysis of the subject unfolds with all the charm, interest, and illumination of a novel.



A CONGRESSMAN'S COMMENT
In the last twenty-five years I have heard the tariff and the trusts discussed from every point of view by all those men in the country who are considered best qualified to speak on these important matters; but I have never heard any man discuss these subjects who was, in my judgment, the equal of of Mr. Lybarger.—Hon. Henry T. Rainey (Representing the old Lincoln District in Congress).



HOW TO BE HAPPY
This is the 20th Century verdict on the aim and purpose of life.  Its philosophy harmonizes with the principles of organic science.  It presents that broad view of happiness which science has revealed.  It unfolds in simple language the great laws of pleasure and pain.  It expounds the fundamental truths governing desire and satisfaction.  It gives the one law of happiness—true of all sentient beings.  It shows the relation of pleasure to intensity, moderation and will.  It presents not simply one side of life's problem, but all sides.  Its eight epochs of life represent a panorama in word-painting.  Its wit and wisdom, poetry and philosophy are helps towards happiness.



COMMENT ON THIS LECTURE

“How to be Happy” was one of the most polished and elegant productions ever given in this city.  Many of its passages are prose-poetry.—
Iowa City Citizen.


His is a type of oratory which warms into flights of eloquence and imagery.—
Las Vegas (N. M.) Daily Optic.


Lee Francis Lybarger is a scholar, scientist, and man of the world, with broad vision and invigorating ideas.—
Portage (Wis.) Democrat.

I have heard of the prince of platform orators but you are king.—Rev. R. B. March, Peoria, Ill.



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