"
"I don't see it," said Joan, with decision.
"I'm afraid you haven't yet grasped the power of the Press," he answered
with a smile. "Phillips speaks occasionally to five thousand people.
Carleton addresses every day a circle of five million readers."
"Yes, but when Phillips does speak, he speaks to the whole country,"
retorted Joan.
"Through the medium of Carleton and his like; and just so far as they
allow his influence to permeate beyond the platform," answered Greyson.
"But they report his speeches. They are bound to," explained Joan.
"It doesn't read quite the same," he answered. "Phillips goes home under
the impression that he has made a great success and has roused the
country. He and millions of other readers learn from the next morning's
headlines that it was 'A Tame Speech' that he made. What sounded to him
'Loud Cheers' have sunk to mild 'Hear, Hears.' That five minutes'
hurricane of applause, during which wildly excited men and women leapt
upon the benches and roared themselves hoarse, and which he felt had
settled the whole question, he searches for in vain.
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