Irishman Speaks - Conor Cunneen

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Here we have Mark Twain, the first great inspirational humorous keynote speaker on top of his form. As with much of the material from the man who made so many people laugh, it is simple, concise and self-deprecatory. Enjoy, just one more speech from a man whom keynote speakers – humorous, inspirational, business, cancer or any topic, can learn a lot from.

READING-ROOM OPENING

On October 13, 1900, Mr. Clemens made his last address

preceding his departure for America at Kensal Rise, London.

I formally declare this reading-room open, and I think that the

legislature should not compel a community to provide itself with

intelligent food, but give it the privilege of providing it if the

community so desires.

If the community is anxious to have a reading-room it would put its hand

in its pocket and bring out the penny tax. I think it a proof of the

healthy, moral, financial, and mental condition of the community if it

taxes itself for its mental food.

A reading-room is the proper introduction to a library, leading up

through the newspapers and magazines to other literature. What would we

do without newspapers?

Look at the rapid manner in which the news of the Galveston disaster was

made known to the entire world. This reminds me of an episode which

occurred fifteen years ago when I was at church in Hartford, Connecticut.

The clergyman decided to make a collection for the survivors, if any.

He did not include me among the leading citizens who took the plates

around for collection. I complained to the governor of his lack of

financial trust in me, and he replied: "I would trust you myself--if you

had a bell-punch."

You have paid me many compliments, and I like to listen to compliments.

I indorse all your chairman has said to you about the union of England

and America. He also alluded to my name, of which I am rather fond.

A little girl wrote me from New Zealand in a letter I received yesterday,

stating that her father said my proper name was not Mark Twain but Samuel

Clemens, but that she knew better, because Clemens was the name of the

man who sold the patent medicine, and his name was not Mark. She was

sure it was Mark Twain, because Mark is in the Bible and Twain is in the

Bible.

I was very glad to get that expression of confidence in my origin, and as

I now know my name to be a scriptural one, I am not without hopes of

making it worthy.