Lee Francis Lybarger

              LEE FRANCIS LYBARGER

Figure




Lee Francis Lybarger is not an entertainer, but an orator.  He speaks only to enlighten, to persuade, to reform.  Yet such is his power in the presentation of great truths, that, with no thought of entertainment, he holds the rapt attention of vast audiences—whether in the lyceum hall or on the chautauqua platform—with masterful ease and skill.  And this for the reason that he is in earnest, has the faith and enthusiasm born of conviction, knows what to say, and how to say it.

The orator's sole and lofty purpose is to change the habits, conduct and conditions of men.  But to do this, he must first—as lecturer—change thoughts, beliefs and opinions.  And then—as orator—he must link the feelings, emotions and heart-throbs of his hearers to the new beliefs and convictions he has created, in order that they may go forth and embody these new convictions in life and action.  The lecturer appeals to the intellect—the entertainer to the emotions.  The orator appeals to both.

Being endowed by Nature with those traits and qualities which distinguished the world's great orators, Mr. Lybarger has amplified these superior gifts by years of culture and training.  He has the magical power of word-painting.  He has that rare endowment of imagination which can portray characters, picture scenes, vivify social forces and tendencies, and give even to abstract thought a local habitation and a name.

Above all, and as the basis of his work, Mr. Lybarger is the typical man of science.  No scientist of this great age has been more patient, more eager for truth, or more varied and profound in his investigations.  Taking up first the physical sciences and then the organic, Mr. Lybarger has traversed the whole field of thought and speculation, being most vitally concerned with whatever touches on human life and happiness.  Perhaps no man of his age is more familiar with the facts of Social Science, or has gone so profoundly into the causes for the concentration of wealth.  If you are unable to secure Bryan or LaFollette, then engage Mr. Lybarger.  We will vouch for the results.

The Management.




How Napoleon Won
A Lecture on the Psychology of Greatness.  Napoleon stands as the model of success.  His mighty achievements tower above those of all other men; and the source of his Imperial power was not in his armies, but in himself.  How did he win?  What were the elements of mind and character which made his success so natural and inevitable?



How to Be Happy
A Lecture on the Laws of Happiness.  Many regard this as Mr. Lybarger's greatest production.  It is filled with worldly wisdom.  It is not a sunshine lecture, but a search after the philosophy of right living.  It is one lecture that has the courage to face the facts, to see things as they are.  It shows not only the right of happiness and the duty of happiness, but the ways of happiness.




Iowa City (Iowa) Citizen.
“How to Be Happy” was one of the most polished and elegant productions ever given in this city.  Many of his passages were prose-poetry.


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


Donora (Pa.)
His original thoughts and masterful diction were such as only are found in orators of rare ability.


Monessen (Pa.) Daily Independent.
His subject permitted of a wide range of thought and the speaker's cleverness and wonderful eloquence were fully displayed.  Mr. Lybarger has a masterful style of delivery and all who heard him join in pronouncing his lecture a literary treat.


Lompoc (Cal.) News.
While all the other entertainments have been highly satisfactory, yet those who purchased their season tickets for one dollar got their full value from this lecture alone.  The subject of “Human Happiness” was handled in a masterly manner by Mr. Lybarger.  There was not a dull moment in the lecture, and the excellent advice he gave us was so interestingly woven with quaint and amusing stories and experiences, that the time was hardly realized.  It is doubtful if any lecturer ever appeared before a Lompoc audience and gave better satisfaction.


Decorah (Iowa) Public Opinion.
“How to Be Happy” was sound, practical and thorough—filled with humor and bursts of oratory which thrilled the audience.


Winchester (Ind.) Herald.
It proved to be one of the most valuable lectures heard here in years, both as to subject matter and manner of delivery.  Mr. Lybarger is an original thinker, a ripe scholar, a fluent talker; in fact, an orator of rare skill.

Prof. R. B. March, Peoria, Ill.

I have heard of the Prince of Platform Orators, but you are the King.


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


Toledo (Ohio) Commercial.
Mr. Lybarger is a deep thinker, a logical reasoner, and is thoroughly imbued with the spirit of his subject.


The Lyceumite.
Few new lecturers come to the platform clothed in such richness.  His is the purest of pure English, faultless pronunciation, logical argument, keen sense of humor, forceful delivery, a voice of marvelous power and range, and a gentlemanly bearing—quite enough for a Standard Bearer, don't you think?

H. W. Elvidge, Secretary Y. M. C. A., Allentown, Pa.

Lee Fancis Lybarger is one of the great men on the lecture platform.  He has a magnificent voice, sympathetic and powerful, with the faculty of getting at once in touch with his audience.  His lectures are masterpieces—deep, thoughtful and brilliant.  He is worthy of any audience and of any people, and will please wherever he goes.


Oskaloosa Morning Telegraph.
(Iowa Teachers' Convention, Oskaloosa, Ia.)  Lee Francis Lybarger, scholar and lecturer, gave an address worth months of thought on “The Two Worlds—Mind and Matter.”  It was one of the best lectures of the convention.

Prof. W. N. Liggett, Department of Oratory, Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio.

Mr. Lybarger has the ability to present abstract thought in as attractive a manner as any man we have ever heard.  Mr. Lybarger's lecture was highly appreciated and by many was said to be the best argumentative discourse given in Ada for years.




Land, Labor, Wealth
An Oration on the Dangers and Injustice of our Swollen Fortunes.  It shows the source of the Trusts' wealth and power, the methods by which great fortunes are amassed, and the cause for the present concentration of wealth.  It tells how Rockefeller got rich, how Marshall Field amassed hundreds of millions, how the Astors secured the first American fortune.  This oration tells the tragic story of Labor—of a struggle that is centuries old.  It deals with mighty causes—with far-reaching results.  It gets at the philosophy of things.  It is sane, practical, judicial, patriotic, non-partisan—filled with compassion for the oppressed, and glowing with true Americanism.




Peoria (Ill.) Star.
Never before has a Peoria audience heard an economic subject treated as it was treated last night by Lee Francis Lybarger.  The lecture was argumentative, persuasive, convincing.  It covered luminously the entire economic field and made clear that the wrong that robs and oppresses the masses today is the same wrong that has robbed and oppressed the toiling millions in all lands in the past, and which—unless it be righted—will continue to enslave and impoverish the common people for all time to come.  Mr. Lybarger has been well named “The American Demosthenes.”


Harrisburg (Pa.) Star-Independent.
Lee Francis Lybarger—the scholar, scientist and orator—delivered one of the greatest political addresses ever heard in Harrisburg, and to an audience of fully 5,000 people.  For nearly three hours he held his vast audience enraptured, while he poured volley after volley into the ranks of the opposition.  Only the near approach of the midnight hour stopped the flow of thoughts, facts and feelings.  And such a voice!  Such power and penetration!  It was magnificent!  It seemed to fill the whole city with is wondrous vibrations!


St. Petersburg (Fla.) Independent.
Three times in as many days the Chautauqua heard Mr. Lybarger, and each lecture was pronounced better than the preceding one.  “How to Be Happy” was followed by “Traits of Moral Greatness.”  But his crowning lecture was “Land, Labor, Wealth.”  He closed with a wonderfully eloquent peroration on “The Ideal Republic.”


Windom (Minn.) Citizen.
Lee Francis Lybarger gave one of the most thought-provoking lectures ever delivered in Windom.


Joliet (Ill.) News.
Nobody realized that this man was going to be head and shoulders above any orator ever in Joliet.  But he was—a regular Gulliver among the Lilliputians.  And Joliet has had some big men come from afar to anoint her head with facts from silver tongues.  Wherever Mr. Lybarger has been head—and he has put in two seasons on the Chautauqua platform—he has proven to be an attraction of the first magnitude.  But known or unknown, this man is great.  His magnificent mind is trained and scholarly, and he has a tremendous grasp of truth.  He sees the fundamental principles of things and can make his hearers see and understand them.  He has a splendidly magnetic presence, a voice that is so deep and rich and resonant that its harmonies compel attention to his words, while his simple logic, his ready facts and his absolute fairness do the rest.  Prof. Lybarger's exposition of the natural laws governing the production and distribution of wealth was fascinating.  There is nothing spectacular  about his oratory or revolutionary in the principles he advocates.  His answers satisfy.  His explanations are lucid and his explanations practicable.  As an orator Mr. Lybarger combines the qualities of a wonderfully profound mind with such brilliancy of expression and such simplicity of diction that the science of economics takes on the charm of a novel.  He is a Socrates and Demosthenes in one.


Springfield (Ohio) Daily Sun.
To put it briefly, it was the simplest and most comprehensive elucidation of the problem of how to secure a more just and equal distribution of wealth ever heard in this city.


Harrison (Ohio) News.
One of the most beneficial and thoroughly enjoyable features of the Miami Valley Chautauqua were the lectures and round-table talks by Lee Francis Lybarger, a prominent lawyer of the “City of Brotherly Love.”  He has a wonderful store of knowledge, gained by long and persistent research, and a charming way of imparting it to others.  He is conversant with all the current events of this remarkable age, and the large crowds that attended his lectures and talks showed plainly the faculty he has of entertaining his hearers.  He is a thorough gentleman, and happiest when others about him are happy.


Du Bois (Pa.) Morning Courier.
His hearers sat entranced, while a flow of oratory and reason, of right and justice, the like of which is not often heard in this country, fed the minds of all.



RLB


Redpath-Slayton, BOSTON, NEW YORK, CHICAGO, CEDAR RAPIDS, COLUMBUS, KANSAS CITY, DENVER, BUTTE, PORTLAND
Redpath-White, 100 BOYLSTON ST., K. M. WHITE, MGR, BOSTON, MASS.
Redpath-Brockway, 6101 PENN AVE, PITTSBURG, PA.

RLB