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office in the city of Cleveland He was a iine student and has a superior legal mind, and might have made as great lawyer as Rufus P. Raney or Virgil P. Kline had he stuck to the profession and given his whole soul to it. His strong point is clearness of statement, and that is the strong point of the lawyer. Unless it be John Sharp Williams, no man in Congress Is the equal of Burton in stat ing case. When on his legs making a speech he constantly reminds one of John G. Carlisle. Williams Is a much greater man than Burton, for Williams is richly endowed with the keenest sense of humor, whereas Burton is as serious as "a basket of chips going to hell to be burned"
 Burton's first advent in Congress was in 1889, when Thomas B. Reed revolu- tionized that body and subtracted its self government from the general membership on the floor and lodged it with the speak CT. It was the Congress which sought to deprive the south of its privilege to vote the democratic ticket. that curtailed sur plus revenues by increasing taxation, that sought to make sound currency by demonetizing gold, thing that was accomplished by the Sherman silver law. In 1s9o the country got a whack at the Fifty-frst Congress, and that very year the democrats gained the most signal vic- tory ever achieved by political party in the United States. Tom Johnson beat Burton for Congress that very year.
 The democrats had their day in court and played the devil. In 1893 they mutt nied against their general like lot of. Pretorians, deposed him, set up boy or ator In his place, and for a dozen years they have abused Gods patience and tho Kings English, cussing the deposed gem eraI for the misfortunes and disasters that have overtaken them under the lead of the youthful orator. Their conduct IS not at all logical, but 1t is immensely
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about century older than our oldest existing manuscript, and this fact makes his authority all the more important. But as an interpreter he was so given to spiritualizing as to vitiate his expostions, and to make him almost worthless as an authority in matters of exegisis.
 Coming down to our own day, 1 find in print the following modern instance The preachers text was from the 10th chapter and Both verse of the Gospel of Luke
 "A certain man went down from Jerusa- lem to Jericho, and fell among thieves The exposition ran thus: Low, my breth- rem the Bible tells a great deal in one word. There is very little said here about the character of this man that fell among the thieves, and yet l know just what sort of a man he was. And. first he was d sober man. Secondly, he was a pune tual man. Thirdly he was an industrious man; and fourthly. he was a married man." By this time the congregation were gazing in mute amazement at the preacher and wondering how upon earth he had discovered all these characteris tics of an utterly unknown man; but the secret transpired when the preacher con-
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Congress; and If all the other of the peo- ples affairs had been as well managed. the country would be in heap better fix than it is.
 Faction is the tribulation of party and the delight of history. It has thwarted much of good and more of evil. The Ge.aocratic party is fair game for 1t, and many a cruel blow 1t has dealt that or ganization. When you get into the su- perior class of democrats you find a set who will not follow the multitude to do evli They refuse to yell Release unto us Barabas" because 1t Is in the plat form to turn Barabas loose. Local self government is the soul of the democratic party, and your true democrat is so for what he believes. He is for states rights; he Is for taxation for revenue only; he Is for a currency as good as the best In the world; he is for honesty and economy in public expenditures; he is for strict construction of the constitutions he Is jealous of power; he Is for the largest personal liberty consistent with public order He suspects all fads and experi- ments He Is a conservative.
 On the other hand, your republican of the average class has but one principle -t.e majority. He will never bolt; he IS for ths platform, whatever 1t declares, and for the ticket of whomsoever 1t Is composed The republican party is thor oughly disciplined. I could give hun dred examples, but a single one will suf- fee. When the F-ty ty-ninth Congress was convened the republican party was worse split up over the rate bill than the dem ocratic party had been over the silver question when the Fifty-third Congress convened The democratic party went all to flinders over silver; the republican party got together on rates-except Fora ker, Sam Mccall and two or three others.
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BY SAVOYARD.

Roosevelt in the Senate and out of 1t, and in that behalf he delivered himself of prea chments that no man can controYert, and did it in @ way to extort the admi- ration of enemy well as of friend. Burton is as hostile to the present ex- tortlonate tariff as Foraker was to the rate bill; but Burton allowed the tariff reform contingent on the republican side of the House of Representatives to drift as imslessy as a straw in fcSle wind. If Foraker had been as impotent In the Senate the outrage of joint statehood for Arizona and New Mexico would have been perpetrated. As Lucan said of his brother-n-law, Cardigan, who led the charge of the Light Brigade and whom he hated with all his rancor of his stern nature so it can be said of Foraker: "Yes, he is brave; d-n him, he Is brave"
 Here is Massachusetts demanding tarln revision "by the friends of protection" She wants the tariff revised down on hides and revised up on boots and shoes Iowa, another republican state, also de- mands tariff revision 'by the friends of protection" She wants the tariff on hides revised up and the tariff on boots and shoes revised down. Scratch a re- publican who is for tariff revision, and here Is the label you will reveal: 'l am for free trade In what have to buy and for prohibitory tarin on what l have to sch" That layout could not "revise" the tariff between now and judgment day.
 And so the Ohio republicans are per- fectIy safe in cutting one another's throats The democrats will not be al- lowed to avail themselves of the advan- tages that family row offers.
 Put away the poor little tariff issue. It may be of use some time in the remote future.
 Copyright, 1907, by F. W. Newman)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
BY F. I. MONKS.

est code of laws ever written contains only ten sections, and 1t can be safely said that if these ten sections were rig Idly observed every other criminal code in the world might be burned with ad- vantage It would seem that most men forget their own and their fellows frail- ties when once entrusted with the power to make laws to restrain imperfect hu- man nature. If the straight and narrow path is to become tight rope over the whirlpools of life none but Blondins will ever reach the other shore. Widen the road, good legislators; reduce the grades. worthy divines; dig out the stumps and fill in the pitfalls, most potent grave and reverend signors. Mankind does not want to go to perdition, but the sure way to send him there is to make salvation seem impossible. If you let the reins fall loose the horse will naturally keep the middle of the road; it is the un- skilled driver and tight rein that precip- itates the wagon into the abyss. Laws which teach people self-resrtaint, self respect and self-relance are what the country needs today and they are not to be found in the code
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tlnued after the following fashion: And I know all this about this man from one single word in the text. It says he was a certain man! Now you all know that there Is no certainty in a drunkard; no certainty in a man who Is not punctual in meeting his engagements; no certainty in an idler; and l know he was a married man because there is not one of these bachelors in forty that you can trust"
 But" says some reader What are we to do with the f1gurative language of the Bible?" My reply is: Do with it just as you would do if you found it in any other book You have no right to have one set of principles for interpreting the Bible and another set for interpreting will The problem before you in each case is the same: What does this language mean?" In each case you as sume nationality and good faith on the part of the writer; you assume that he intended to have some rational meaning in his words, and you apply your mind to the task of discovering what that meaning Is. "rhe Pilgrims Progress Is full of figures of speech; and even chii- dren have little trouble with them. In-
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ton, even if that, but the gambler wants to win the money and whether he suc- ceeds by hook or by crook, by fair means or foul 'tis all one to him so long as he scoops the pool
 The Australian government comes nearest being truly democratic of all ex- isting forms of government It is gov ernment by the people, for the people and not against the people. If the Aus tralian people are lovers of horses and favor horse racing the government rec. ognizes that characteristic and shapes legislation accordingly. The legislators themselves own horses, race horses. They race them and bet on them and some- times ride their own horses In the race. To own and ride the winner of a big race is the very height of an Australian's ambition. It Is glory he Is after, not the gate receipts The people knov this, and they know they are sure of an honest run for their money if they invest dol- lar upon a race, and that's why nearly everyone in Australia invests some amount. no matter how small, upon horse race.
 To meet this condition there has been introduced in Australia system of bet
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and 1t Is 0 comfort to believe that there is balm in Gilead though I do not ex- actly know its composition.
 But" says another reader, If this method of Interpretation is to be adopted, what Is to become of my theology" My reply is Your theology Is purely man. made affair. It does not rest upon tho Bible but upon your interpretation of the Bible. That Interpretation may be original or it may be derived from some theologian, or from some interpreter whom you think you have reason to trust or whom you are trusting without any reason worth mentioning. Now. in either case however infallible the Bible may be held as an authirity, 1t is manifest that your theology is anything but infallible.
 Jesus used a figure of speech when He spoke of His followers as a flock of sheep. l don't think the figure was com plimentary: for sheep is one of the most stupid creatures upon the face of the earth. Jean Paul Frederick Richter was one of the greatest and aeutest thinkers of modern Germany, and IF noted the curious fact that if you hold a stick before the bell-wether of flock of sheep, "so that he. by necessity, leaped
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ON THE INTERPRETATION or SCRIPTURE

terpret the Biblical figures just as you interpret Bunyan's, and you will hardly go far astray.
 Even when you cannot explain the fig ures in detail, they will often have a powerful and beneficial effect upon the imagination of devout reader and this is probably the very effect that they wete intended to have. The rapt seer of Pat mos, in his Book of Revelation often uses figures which do not pretend to eX- pound with any detail. nor even to com prehend with dstinetness, and yet some of these mysterious figures go down into the heart and break up the fountains of the great deep. For instance: And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river. was there the tree of life which bear twelve manner of fruits and yielded her fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree were for the heal ing of the nations" What She leaves of the tree were intended to mean l do not know but l do know that the nations our own nation-our own state-our own city-are all in terrible need of healing
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patrons. Everyone exercises his own Judgment and very few go beyond the purchase of dne ticket. although some times people prefer to buy five sl tickets to one g. ticket. Directly the horses start the sale of tickets stops and tho totallzator man proceeds to work out his sum on the board by adding together the numbers on all the exposed unusold tick cts by which he learns the amount Of money taken in and from which he de- ducts 10 per cent as his commission, the balance stands ready now for division among the owners of tickets on the win ming horse There are instances on record where over 5000 were divided between three and four people, and story is told of a Chinaman who went to a total izator and, not knowing one horse from another and having no choice, simply said: Me wantee ticket tonga horsee.' "All right, John," said the totalizator man, tearing off ticket 0 from a block. He meant to sell John ticket on horse that hadn't shadow of a chance to win, but the joke was the other way when John came back and received over s15oo for his s1 ticket
 This is the system of betting carried
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"HE town of Jefferson, Ashtabula
 county, Ohio, was the depository ot
 | that part of the New England con- science that went west about 100 years ago to grow up with the country. Ashta- bula county was the heart of the Western Reserve and peopled from Massachusetts and Connecticut. At Jefferson lived Joshua R. Giddings and Benjamin F. Wade both radical abolitionists. They were of New England stock, and when we think of them the following from that other and more brilliant son of New Eng land-John James Ingalls-obtrudes on the mind
 The conscience of New England was never thoroughly aroused to the immoral fty of African slavery until 1t ceased to be profitable, and the north did not finally determine to destroy the system until convinced that its continuance threatened not only their industrial Independence, but their political supremacy.
 That passage not only evidences the blunt candor of MT. Ingalls,, but in 1t Is shown the sagacity with which he judged men and things, and here we have one of the most brilliant men our country has produced defining New England con- science as merely a synonym for thrift, material and political. It was New Eng land, by the way, that put the African slave trade in the constitution of the United States.
 It was at this town of Jefferson that Theodore F. Burton was born in 1851, the year after Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas had prevented Joshua R. Cid dings Thaddeus Stevens, and men of that fix from accomplishing the dissolution of the Union. MT. Burton got his education at Oberlin college, an abolition institu- ton and the narrowest-minded school in th- world. Young Burton studied law, was admitted to the bar and opened an
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K EXT to the Arab, there are no peo-
 M pie in the world who value the 1 horse more highly than do the Australians. In that country a child learns to ride a horse even before he learns to walk. His playmate is the horse, and his companion Is the horse. The Australian Is also proud of his horse and is ever ready to match him In n race against another, and this disposi- tion of the people has resulted in making Australia the greatest horse-racing coun- try in the world.
 Where there's racing there's sure to be betting but there's quite a distinction between betting and gambling, although most people confound the terms. The man who makes a bet on horse simply backs up his opinion in a tangible shape, whereas the man who gambles has no opinion on anything, but relies upon his own superior skill or knowledge to over reach his adversary in the deal. A sports man will stake a hundred or thousand dollars upon the result of an event where the contest Is to decide a question of merit, and the mere fact of winning tha money is but secondary considera-
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ting on horse races known as the "totali- zator" This system has been estab- lished by law and is permitted to be used at all race meetings by persons licensed to operate 1t. The license is in the nature of a privilege for which the person desirous of operating the total izator pays to the stewards of the race meeting a certain amount, of money, ac- cording to the prospects of what he will earn himself Having secured this priv ilege he makes preparations to wo~si it.
 Australia uses the same system of coinage as England, that is. pounds, shil- lings and pence, expressed by the capi- tai letters l.. s. D., but it will be easier to explain the totalzator by supposng the use of dollars. Totalizators are of $5, s2 and s1 denominations, to suit the finances of all patrons. The principle upon which the system is built is the same as the sweepstakes, except that in- stead of one person winning the whole amount in the pool it is divided equally among those who hold tickets on the winning horse.
 The operator provides large black board ruled off into square spaces Each of these spaces is numbered in consecu-
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tive order from to 90 or 40 In each ot these spaces Is hung up a bunch or tickets numbered from to 300, or per haps higher. These punches of tickets are variously colored to distinguish them, but all the tickets In each bunch are colored alike, and differ only in the mum Der stamped upon them. When the mum bers of the runners in any race are hoist ed on the signal board punches of tickets are hung up on the corresponding num- bers on the totalizator board and then the sale of tickets begins. If a man wants to bet s5 on a certain horse in the race he goes to the B totalizator and buys a ticket on the number correspond ing to the horses number on the racing card: the same way if he wants to bet g or $1
 As each ticket is numbered, glance at the board shows how many tickets have been sold on eah horse, and by adding all the numbers together person can tell how many tickets have been sold on the race. how much money there is in the pool and ,how much the dividend will be on any particular horse that may win. There's no such thing as bookmaker laying the odds and then welchins the
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latlons. We know Sumner vc the dem- ocratic ticket in 1872
 The Afro-American council met In Bal timore the other day and issued mani festo that amounts to general orders to the republican party. It condemned Wil- liam H. Taft and Henry Cabot Lodge to political death a.ld sought to mobilize the negro vote into @ separate organization to levy political blsckmail on the G. O. P It will not work. Your white republican of the north is in no better temper to take orders from the negro than is your white democrat of the south. If all the negroes of the north fall In with this idea promulgated by this Afro American coun- cil and persist in 1t. the year 1920 will see the fifteenth amendment of the federal constitution as much of dead letter In Ohio and Indiana as 1t is in Alabama and Mississippi. The c. o. P. would be glad to see negro rule at the south, but it does not intend to have 1t at home. Senator Foraker's speech to Wilberforce unversi- ty was a demand for negro rule in at least three southern states. The first an- swer to it was the beating up of a negro in the United States treasury department, in the town, and the second was the gen eral order of the Afro-American council, assuming command of the republican party throughout the union.
 That Is the kettle of fish Senator For alSer has cooked for his party in Ohio. The negroes of that state have marked Taft and Burton for slaughter. It Is not a democratic row, and every democrat can contemplate the melee with extrem- est satisfaction.
 Burton is as able a man Foraker. though by no means as effective an ora
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\" Il any Fduonal ana ueVout ln-
 N/ terpreter should ever allow him
 W self to indulge in spiritualizing the inspired word of God, Is one of the mysterious questions too deep for me to solve. It is, however, a notorious fact, that this method of lnterpreting-or rath- CT of misinterpreting-th Scriptures, is much older than the oldest existing man. uscript of the New Testament, and the vicious metho dhas not yet canished from the world.
 To spiritualize a passage of Scripture is to get out of it-or rather to force into it-a spiritual meaning which the passage manifestly does not contain. This is i'm position-not exposition. From time irn- memorial there have been Christians for whom the Bible was not religious enough; and so, in their interpretation of the Bible they frequently put into a passage something which is intended to improve it's spirituality.
 In the 2Oth verse of the 9th chapter of the First Bpistle to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul wrote: 'Ye are bought
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Burton Is as able a man as Foraker. though by no means as effective an ora tor in Congress or on the stump. Nor Is he the virile leader Foralker Is. Foraker did not hesitate to challenge Theodore
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TIHY any rational and devout in- ./ terpreter should ever allow him
 ' self to indulge in spiritualizing
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