Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 33
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, October 16,  1902

COL. HENRY WATTERSON.
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Lectures At The Grand on "Money
And Morals."
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       The lecture by Col. Henry Watterson at the Grand Opera House last night was heard by about 150 people.
       The lecture was along the lines indicated in the subject "Money and Morals" but covered a wide range of discussion.  The speaker is firmly set against the tendencies of the times to commercialism and he delivered some strong arguments against that tendency.
       He is a vigorous and forceful talker, but his lecture contains little to produce laughter, being almost throughout pitched upon different lines to that of most of the platform orators.
       In the audience were old time patrons, and readers of his paper, the Louisville Courier-Journal, which for nearly half a century has been conducted by Watterson.  The Colonel is possessed of a strong individuality and carries it with him to the platform as when wielding the editorial faber.
       He was introduced by Hon. Cullen F. Thomas, who came to Marlin for the expres (sic) purpose of hearing the lecture.  Mr. Thomas referred eloquently to the inspiration he received from his early reading after the master mind and pen of Col. Watterson.
       Col. Watterson has recently, through his paper, made some very strong strictures against New York's "400" and this has served to focus the minds of millions upon him at this time.

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