BOTTOMLEY AS ORACLE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3139, 16 October 1922, Page 7

BOTTOMLEY AS ORACLE.

Mr Henry Ilousfin, “confidant and secretary” In Horatio Mottomlcy. now nnderpoiii” seven years penal servitude lor I'rand. tells several pood stories of his employer in the Condon "New- of the World.” I’ottond'ey s method of adapting his lectures 1 to tho value of the “house” may create some amazement. lie had a series el s,to- k perorations, pradnated into decrees of i -lo()iience and lot lincvs-s o! tholipnt. These perorations were his ft real stock-in-trade. They were always decided on liiv,t in the preparation ol any speech he nulac. and the “lot tiiiess’’ ol tho peroration depended solely on the receipts. Kor an audience that had only mustered LAO as his share ol the receipts his stock peroration was an appeal to the public to rally round the thione of the empire, to regard their Majesties as the personification of the national unity, and. whether they believe in a monarchy or not. to realise that llie Kin” was the hereditary President of the British Kmpire. “Korpet politics and politician.*,” were the eonelndine phrases. “Remember the >. irds of that pi and eld anthem which says ‘Confound their politics. Cod save the Kinp;.' That was the sipnal for the pianist di organist to hmvt forth, amid ,-i din of eheeiinp and patriotic enthusiasm. with the National Anthem. Kor L7A the prescribed 1 peroration concluded somethin” like thC:~ “When this preat nation emerges from its per od ol trial as please Cod it will we shall stand creel: shoulder to shoulder before the world and deelaie with one \oiee that I>ii( a’ 11 is the ‘land of hope and plory. nmther of the free’ ”- and so on “null Cod, who made is miphty. shall •■wake us mightier yet.” A sliphtly hie her depree of elonnence was proscribed in the scale of perorations for ard'iem-es that produced I rom L/ A to Lion. “When lies trapedy i- over. ’ il i an. “we shall he able to look the whole weild in the face and say that tin's country, this Knpland. has come out of I his phastly eonllict with Its name unsullied, its escutcheon clean, an example and precept for all mankind to follow.” 'Che errand peroration was reserve!! lor andienees that produced anyt hi n<r over LIDO. When that news was conveyed to him he won.d sav. “Hiplit ! ! will trot out “the Princo’ ii.-nipht.” That was a reforeice to the ‘fact that the peroration concluded with an allusion to the Prince of Peace.