Lee Francis Lybarger

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Lee Francis Lybarger
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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 Redpath Bureau 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 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.





Mr. Lybarger's Lecture Subjects

Land, Labor, Wealth, or How They Got Rich
This lecture tells the true story of great American fortunes.  It gives their history, source, size and significance.  No other production has gone so deep into the causes of things.  It is filled with interesting and vital facts and figures.  It is simply crowded with information—a lifetime of research.  It tells who the rich are and why—who the poor are and why.  Mingled with its statistics is an abundance of wit and humor.  With dramatic movement and resistless argument, this lecture presents both wrongs and remedies, both cause and cure.  It may yet be ranked as the most eloquent and able plea for justice and the rights of man ever made by an American orator.



QUESTIONS ANSWERED

How many millionaires are there?
How large are their fortunes?
By what means were they acquired?
Is Morgan capitalist or monopolist?
How much is Carnegie's income?
What does he give in return?
Astors collect $500,000 a week—what equivalent do they render?
What proportion of the American people own their homes?
Why should we tax the monopolist but exempt the capitalist?



AS VIEWED BY THE PRESS

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 sees the fundamental principles of things and makes his hearers see and understand them.  He is Socrates and Demosthenes in one.—
Joliet (Ill.) News.



March of Monopoly
A presentation of the trust movement—giving the nature, aims and motives of the trust, the scope and source of its power, its absolute control over the necessities of human life, and the means by which it can be abolished.

This is the first formal and systematic presentation of the trust movement ever made on the lecture platform.


It describes the mighty march in the centralization of property.
It tells how many trusts there are and why they can control prices.
It shows how the opportunities of a continent have been closed.
It marks the dramatic end of ten centuries of Westward migration.

Abstracts from this lecture were quoted in the Wall Street Journal.



QUESTIONS ANSWERED

What is a trust?
Who was the founder?
Why is monopoly a menace?
How many trusts are there?
What is their capitalization?
How much of this is water?
What six groups of men control the industries of the entire nation?
How do railroads aid in securing trust domination and control?
What has the tariff to do with the trusts?
Is there a way out?



THE NEWSPAPERS' ESTIMATE

The discourse was conceded to be the greatest ever delivered in this city on the “Dangers and Injustice of our Swollen Fortunes.”—
Wheeling (W. Va) Intelligencer.


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

I do not believe his efforts have ever been surpassed.—Hon. Robert Tucker, Portland, Ore.




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 amounts 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.



QUESTIONS ANSWERED

Is the tariff a tax?
How much is it?
Who pays it?
Who gets it?
Does the tariff raise prices?
Does it raise wages?
Who pays the bill?
Can you enrich the producer by law without robbing the consumer?
Can Congress give to one class without taking from another?
On what products do you get an increased price, due to protection?
On what products do you pay an increased price, due to protection?
Is there a more just system of taxation than the tariff system?



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 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 the king.—Rev. R. B. March, Peoria, Ill.




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