The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-31
GATES AND DRAKE WIN
COOL MILLION DOLL AIRS

New York, August s1.-(SpeciaL)-I have
seen rolls Of money, but never anything
like that which changed hands on the
freat futurity race for two-year-old colts
at Sheepshead Bay this afternoon. John
". Gates and John A Drake came out
of the west from Chicago and entered a
colt called Savable Nobody knew any
thing about the horse and the boolxmalxers
bet twenty to one that he could not
win. Gates and Dral-e divided their
money up and bet it everywhere. They
bet $4,000 at odds twenty to enc. and
you can figure it out They won clear
and round 81, 900, 600. the greatest amount
ever won in a single race in America
saw Gates win $4,000 on one race in Sar-
century ago; takes those steps now. The
crimes Of craft and the crimes of vio-
lence both are equally dangerous. And we
must remember, after all, that those who
come from the set where one kind of
crime is dangerous are apt to denounce
the other type of crime. Both must be
put down. The man who commits vio-
lence-above ALL the body Of men who
commit violence, commit an outrage not
merely against their fellow Americans,
but against the whole body polite to
which they belong. Violence or the indi-
vidual above all, violence Of mob-that
type is incompatible with free govern
ment, with free and orderly liberty in
our republic. The first requisite of liberty
we and our forefathers have known Is
the Willingness to abide the law. The
government must be just; the law must
be no reopecter Of persons. The law must
get at the big man who goes wrong just
as 1t gets at the small man who goes
wrong. lCries of That's right.D
At Montpelier.
Mont Pelier, Pa, August 30.-President
Roosevelt was the guest of the Society
of the Sons Of the Revolution here to-
day He was greeted by a large crowd
and his speech was enthusiastically re-
ceived. The President said he was glad
to come as the guest of the Society of
Sons of the Revolution. 1T is a great
thing" he added, ito have had forebear-
ers who did their work well in the world.
always provided that the fact of having
had them drives us onward to try to do
our part In the world now, instead of be-
ing used as an excuse for not doing our
full shares"
A text In the Bible contained two rules
of conduct of which too many people
were apt to take only one. THE text"
said the President 'is that which bids
us be wise as serpents and harmless as
doves To be only harmless is not really
to deserve much praise; nor, on the other
hand, to possess all the wisdom and all
the power that can come to man shall
avail anything If with it does not go the
lift toward righteousness, the lift toward
decency. I want to illustrate what l
mean," he said, 'by the two men whom
Vermont contributed to the navy of the
United States and TO the glory OF the en-
tire nation in the Spanish war.
Now, gentlemen. Admirals Dewey and
Clark had to have in them the courage.
the desire to do decency, but 1t would
not have done them any good IL they had
not learned their trade the chag>e
came. If Dewey or Clark had sat down
during the long years OF peace, as have
known pretty good men TO sit down and
say, "Oh, WELL there is not anything to
be done; when the day comes l will be
a hero-but just now I don't care to
train the men at the big guns or what
ever there was to do'-if they had done
that we would not have the name of
either of them before us at this moment.
Take those men on horseback over there
the regulars-I think we have gotten past
the stage in this country when any of
your citizens feel any jealousy or any
thing put the heartiest admiration for the
regular army and navy. All honor to the
men who spend their lives in training
themselves, to die at need. for the honor
and interest of all Of US, should the call
be made. And in the army and navy alike
the way to make certain success Is to
train in advance. There people in
this country of whom, l regret to say II
must be said, not that they have bad
ideas, but that they have no ideas at
ALL and among those I class every man
who is unable to see in this country any,
thing but material prosperity"