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wings became republicans and the south
ern wings democrats. Raw materials be
hanged
When Texas was annexed, when Mexico
was beaten and spoilated, the quarrel
became acute, and the south said she had
as many and as sacred rights In the
newly acquired territory as the north
had. The south had the law and the
equity of the question; the north had the
force and the cant of 1t. The whig party
straddled It, and of course went to pot
In the final settlement the north pre-
vailed, a habit that superior physical
strength has had ever since Cain In
voked it to murder his brother Abel.
AS for Albert Gallatin, the father of
the free raw materials idea in our coun-
try, he was Thomas Jefferson's secretary
of the treasury, and he ought to have
had a faint idea of what the democratic
party should think about 1t. 1 was
amused to read that while the Texas
senator was very loquacious about the
stand taken by the Pennsylvania Yankee
secretary of the treasury under Polk, on
this subject, he was nearly as mute as
a fish as to the position occupied by
Thomas Jeffersons secretary of state on
the proposition of free raw materials.
The protected interests are for tax
on raw materials. Why? Because they
know that the very moment they sur
render that breastwork of the robber
tariff the whole thing will go to pot
When heard Aldrich, the archbishop of
the heresy of robber tariff, appeal to
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him the son of the Pharaoh line. This
obelisk is the Oldest object in Rome and
was brought hither about two thousand
years ago as one of Romes trophies.
Yonder stands the church of st. Mary
of-the-People, built upon the spot where
Nero was buried. Within the walls of
this historic edifce lies the dust of many
of Rome's most distinguished cardinals
and other eminent prelates. The exterior
of St. Mary's is not attractive; but with
in one is reminded of some capricious
cave of the ancient Buccaneers where are
stored away indescribable riches of gold
and precious treasures. Through the
blue of aromatic incense you behold an
amazing prodigality of magnificence in
the way of artistic adornment, paint
ing mosaic and sculpture.
But we hasten to another part of the
city, and now stand before a mass of
melancholy ruins that everybody at once
recognizes, for 1t is said to have been
photographed oftener than any other OBJ
ject in the world. 1t Is the grim gray
ghost of the Coliseum, erected by Titus,
on a part of the site of Nero's garden.
The general appearance of the building
I need not describe. 1t is SO familiar
the world over. The immense proportions
of the Coliseum. however, are difficult of
appreciation from it's pictures. 1t Is said,
that within it's walls about hundred
thousand people could be seated. Hitler
Rome came to witness gladiatorial COM
bats to howl in triumph or to shrek in
rage, according to the termination OF the
conflict. Rome was founded by those
who we're sucked by wolf, we are told;
and in ten thousand ways the VOLTS
blood showed itself in the pleasures and
wars of Rome. 1t was the wolfishness
of the Roman that hilariously shouted as
the gladiator. covered with blood, and
with dimming eye, fell to the sands OF
the arena. in helplessness to die without
Now the Coliseum is wasting away
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the south to stand for taxed raw ma
terials, how 1 did itch for Bailey or
Paynter, or Daniel, or Taylor. or some
other sentinel of this out-work of robber
tariff, to propose to him a duty on raw
cotton; but never one of them "spake
word" to put him in hole on that
proposition They were for lumber, when
a thousand of their fellow citizens were
living in frame houses to one who owned
a pine tree. They were for wool, when
the man who raised sheep was as to one
thousand men who slept under blankets.
No, there is but one thing for the
south of Jefferson Davis and Robert E.
Lee to do, and that is to say, AS our
fathers trod their paths, titled their
fields and drank at their wells, so will
we. Honor is above money, and we will
not partake at a fountain issuing from
a custom house, That is the stun.
Otherwise dip into 1t and join the
Yankee crowd that fats Off taxation.
That is the issue. and when this new
south gets to be Yankeefied to the ex-
tent that 1t will gather gear from the
necessity of the people. then I want to
be done with her.
| make no assault on Senator Bailey.
I have read much of the tariff, and l am
free to say that from him came the
grandest thought of It, when he said 1t
was wicked to require a man by law to
wear raiment to. hide his nakedness and
tax his clothes, and that 1t was cruel to
tax his food when Gods law required
that he should eat to live. 1 quote from
the memory, but they are noble words,
and why does not Bailey call on the
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theory that the inscription meant no
more than: "Bill stumps. his mark"
but of course silent scorn was the meet
answer melted out to Mr.. Blotton. That
hayward genius WAS expelled from the
club, and the inscription was copied and
recopied, discussed and again discussed
by learned societies, native and foreign,
for many years.
1 cannot help thinking that Dickens
must have met a Baconian, and was
having a little Brobdingnagian mirth
over him. The Baconians have found
something! Moreover they, like Mr.
Pickwick. were looking for something to
display their acumen upon. And the
queer composition of that scientific body,
the Pickwick club, is no longer astonish-
ing when one notes the array of Bacon
ian hypothesis. There was Miss Della
Bacon, the Bostonian lady, whom had
she been a man, we should all have
voted a bore. For it Is very dangerous
to any mind that 1t should become
obessed by one dominant idea. Even the
sedate Mr.. Pickwick was clearly a very
Tartar when doubts were thrown on the
antiquity of his stone or the precision
of his readings I have met few Ba-
conians, all of whom are dead and whose
oddities need not be chronicled. but the
chief of them was Judge Bingham, the
same who was public prosecutor in the
surratt case. He was for several years
the republican appointee to represent the
United States at the Mikados court, and
most dogmatic dogmatist. Baconians.
as we'll as other things, make strange
bedfellows. Indeed it requires a certain
type of mind to dare to put itself on
record as favoring the Baconian hypothe-
sis-jtlst as it does to enable a man to
wear creation where others wear a
hat. In certain circuses an elephant is
made to sit in an armchair and play a
flute The Baconians would have us be-
lieve that 1t is the nature of elephants
to so divert themselves AS fish walk
ing on his tail, discoursing on agricul-
ture; as one of Wonderland; Affects
Mock Turtles expounding the politics and
court gossip of that dream-world. so is
the vision of Francis Bacon writing
words like these:
"Ye are a baggage; the Slys are no
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WY E are approaching Rome, the
w city of seven hills; the city
w of the Grachii, of Brutus, of
Augustus, of Constantine and of victor
Emanuel There is the Campo Romano
of classic story, with its long dark lines
of crumbling aqueducts whose arches are
now garrlanded with ivy vines, stretch
ing away beyond the distant horizon.
Here I leaned out the compartment
window, and before me lay the great
city; its hills, domes, monuments, ruins,
palaces temples and lofty columns all en-
wrapped in the golden splendor of an
italian sunset. In due time I was COM
fortably housed, and the next morning I
started out to inspect the glory and the
gloom of the ancient city.
In these short sketches 1t is impossible
to do anything but to select an object
of interest here and there. and say a
few words about 1t. I am embarrassed
by my riches of recollection.
| am now standing at the Piazza del
Popolo. Everybody comes hther, for the
reason that this is the most splendid
square in Rome. I stand in. the shadow
of the massive arch above the gate
way that opens upon the ancient Flami-
MAN road. This old vine-covered gateway
is associated with some of Rome's most
important personages and events. Over
the Flaminian road marched the armies
of Hannibal; hither came Alaric, 1.-The
scourge of Cod in the year 41o; and later
on in the roll of the ages there passed
through this gateway Saxon monk,
Martin Luther, who took up his short
residence in the old buff-colored monas-
terry to our left.
In the center of the piazza there rises
a memorial to the departed glory Of
old Egypt. 1t is an Egyptian obelisk
that dates back to the time of Moses,
and which that law-giver must have often
seen in the days when men counted
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springs upward the almost miraculous
arch of Michael Angelo, glistening with
gold and radiant with the cunning beauty
of mosaics and frescoes. The lines of
the arch begin to spring upward. as
said, about $50 feet above you. and with
consummate grace they converge at
point 400 feet above the marble upon
which you stand. There are four mon
ster pillars that support the dome. each
one Of which measures 1877 feet in cir
conference. Fifty feet above the con-
vergence of the lines of the dome there
CLEANS and CLOVIS in eddying light. like
some strange star in the sky, the golden
cross. It Is the first object in the i'm
perial city to catch the suns rays in the
morning and the last to part with his
crimson splendor in the eventide as he
sinks behind the purple hills in the west.
Below the cross there is ball. 1t looks,
from the streets to be as large as a reg
ulation football, but 1t will hold at one
time IS people.
The outer roof is nearly all brick, laid
in Roman cement and is hard as rock.
The laborers about the dome and roof,
are called San Pietrini' They live upon
the roof and their houses form quite a
village. 1t requires about $4,000 a year
to keep up the material repairs of this
matchless fame.
How many people will st. Peters &C
commodate? Well. you could place two
or three dozen of our average city
churches within it and not bend their
spires As to the number of people. why,
you might march an army of $1,000 men
into it's ample space and 1t would not be
crowded. There is one thing an Ameri-
can will miss at st. Peters, that is a
chair. There are two postures. and only
two. that a congregation is supposed to
assume during divine worship, namely:
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have tried to show, they leave greater
mystery qnite unexplained. And per-
haps beyond the mystery of Bacon's al
| legged versatility, a still greater miracle
must first be considered, namely. how in
the world men can be so blind as TO
boast of the power to identify the yellow
squash upon the mellow earth with the
splendid sunflower that erstwhile waved
on the edge of the corn. If they can see
both flower and vegetable, why can they
not distinguish between them? or why
visiting Alabama on a wet and muddy
day, can they not believe that we have
a most excellent and sunny climate?
Nature and rule or roll down every
spray of wild flower on the theory that
it breaks the monotony? In spite of the
Baconians most men will prefer the mir
acles of nature, the "trelissed vines"
where no gardener has built those foot
holds by which they climb, the native
soul of Burns and of Shakespeare, to all
the sonorous. orderly, prim Dutch pro-
nrieties of unbelief. Hence. 1t is not
enough to say, Bacon wrote the plays"
nor is 1t enough to demand an explana-
ton of the delay in publishing the first
folio edition of the plays. nor is 1t to
be required of the world that we work
out once more a denial of the principle
"posthoc. ergo propter hoe" If It were,
one might perchance fill Bacons DAYS
with the tasks of science worthy of his
unimaginative. scientific brain and still
leave Shakespeare the honors that are
his. What the Baconians must do is to
discover just one indubitable proof that
Bacon could and did unite poetry, that
he ever did write dramatic poetry, and
then one incontestible bit of evidence
that Shakespeare, the gentleman of STRAIT
ford. player and reputed author of PLAYS.
was thrice-dyed scoundrel, growing
rich and famous on the genius of an
other man or other men. Not yet has
the evidence been so much as limited.
but the cry. Cruelty him." takes it's ac-
customed place. What right has he to be
so different from the average man. any,
how? 1t is his uniqueness that is his sim
Nature loves the unique, but the Bacon
! ians and. fear also, the rationalists
generally. SO love the uniform that they
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Standing, and kneeling. l remember to
have seen a few chairs in Notre Dame.
in Paris, and in the Duomo. at Florence.
infrm. There may have been some in
st. Peters used by the same class of
worshippers, but 1 do not remember
them.
In this great temple I heard the chants
rendered In Gregorlan tones, a class of
church music that always appeals to me,
and which I have introduced into several
of our Anglican churches. OF all forms
of music 1t seems to me most suitable
for the worship of God, especially in
liturgica1 services. The present pious
head of the Roman Catholic church is
endeavoring to revive interest in Grego-
rian tones, and, though an outsider of
the church that he represents and guides.
wish him the fullest success; and a
blessing 1t would be, II the churches Of
all beliefs would abandon their fantastic
music and use the simple and beautiful
Gregorians.
But I am asked do the worshippers,
amid that splendor of material show
seem to be devout? No, and yes. Human
nature is the same the world over. Some
people do not seem to be devout, my
dear sir, in the church that you attend,
but some others do. 1t is the same at
st. Peters. I saw types of both classes.
One impressed me very profoundly He
was an elderly man with intellectual
and spirituelle face. He knelt, crossed
himself, and with beautiful light in his
face, began his devotions can recall
his face to my memory out of the years.
I wished that 1 were as true and holy
as 1 feel sure he was. Who are we that
we should Judge our brothers7
My space is full. Let us wave farewell
to Rome.
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seems certain. Champ Clark will b
the speaker wish him a thicker skin
and he thinks about the tariff precisely
materials, and a tariff for public pur-
poses only on the finished product. It
is true, as Mr.. Bailey says. that James
X. Polk and his great secretary of the
treasury, Robert ]. Walker, advocated
tariff for revenue only on all impor-
tations: but in those days ours was a
distinctly agricultural country. The
products of the farm greatly exceeded
in value all other. products together. But
things are very different now. The prod
ucts of the shop are stupendous in guam
tity and enormous In value. If we would
adopt the English tariff within a decade
America would manufacture for the
world. The idea of Cleveland and Mills
was that America should do that very
thing, whereas the idea of Dingley and
Aldrich is that America shall manufac-
ture for America only. And in that last
analysis that is the idea of Bailey in
another phase.
The republican dogma is favorable to a
high tariff on everything, so as to keep
out of our country the cheap wares of
foreign fabric and preserve 1.-The home
market to be monopolized by the tariff
protected manufacturer. There is going
to be a jolly time in both parties over
this tariff question. and let US hope that
both parties will have the courage and
the candor to fight II to a finish, and not
straddle It, as they have been doing for
years and years.
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time to do what they already have assert
ed that he did Verses from Scottish
lady are quoted to show how Incredible
1t is that Shakespear was Shakespeare,
and SO we are trotted back again on the
monotonous circuit and RECALLED again on
pork and has-beens.
Does Mr. Ullman think it credible
that mere man wrote the first chapter
of Genesis? What schooling did he have?
I am aware that Mr.. Ullman may be
orthodox enough to retort that the first
chapter of Genesis came by inspiration,
and 1 will not press the analogy. But
dare to say that whoever wrote for Mr..
Lincoln the Gettysburg address no one
yet has had the temerity to claim the
authorship except the man who uttered
it. But plainly 1t is absurd to suppose
that the raw and coarse and guffawing
buffoon of the backwoods should have
thus been able to wiring the hearts OF
three generations with perfect English
eloquence.
would he had blotted a thousand
Qines)p' CALCULATED Ben Jonson, con-
corning the real play-author and actor,
the Stanford Shakespeare. Who can
help sympathizing with this view? There
are lines so vacuous and so silly that
even Bacon might have written them
when attempting to force out the fun
n.y. stop of his Intellectual organ, for
who can be so lamentably humorous as
the preternaturally philosophic person
So there were flashes of banality in Lin
coin which are painful to remember.
Yes. Lincoln was able to master the
thoughts and wills of men and to leave
the impression on many who knew him
we'll as of a soul not only strong, but
pure and infinitely sane.
I see a man in Mark Twain's pages
somewhere posing for his picture with
Niagara as a background. There are
Others 1t comes of mems inability to
believe in the giant Inconsistencies of
Nature, so that they manufacture new
inconsistencies of their own. Some try to
explain away the New Testament mira
cies and leave bigger miracle unex-
planned. Some try to eject Shakespeare.
the gentleman. from English literature,
leaving Shakespeare. the low-down yell
low cur. yelpng at its portals. But. as
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tators fall in with the error. DIR. Barnes
himself holds that when the Bible seems
to teach anything which is contrary to
the great principles of human nature.
then we must decide that this part of
the Bible is not Scripture. and is not to
be acted upon. Now this is downright
rationalism.
There seems to be a feeling rife in
these days that we must popularize the
Gospel. Now. in one sense the gospel
should be popularized. We should pres
ent its truths so simply and clearly that
the masses of our hearers. even the
children, may be able to learn what
these truths are. But II by "populariz-
ing the gospel it is meant that we
should so emasculate its teachings as to
make them acceptable to the unregener-
ate man. then we will none of 1t.
A God that hides himself is distasteful
to the unregenerate; but still His own
word thus presents Him, and l mean
thus to preach Him.
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THE INSCRUTABLE GOD-By ]. C. Hiden D. D.

God hides Himself in the plan of SAL
walton. There are deep mysteries here.
May questions can be asked that nobody
can answer. Why have a plan at all?
Why allow any necessity for one? Why
not prevent sin from coming into the
world? We can give only partial an
swers to these questions. First we can
not conceive of an intelligent God saw
ing men without purpose. and pnr-
pose seems to necessitate a plan. The
necessity for a plan seems to arise out of
the very nature of God Himself
1t is not always true that prevention
is better than cure" If you always pre-
vent your boy from going into danger he
will never be man. If absolute force
had been used to prevent sin, then the
very nature of the moral agent would
have been fortified, and virtue, as we'll
as vice, would be inconceivabe. You
can't whip a thief into honesty. You
may put him where he can't steal, but
that will not make him honest. We
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Significant Results of First six MontI
as Mayor

From the Century Magazine.
Stripped of all personal or party con-
siderations, and leaving the future to
itself. the results accomplished by Mayor
Gaynor in the first six months of his
administration of the greatest and most
complex municipal system In the world
for London is divided into several adj
ministrative jurisdictions, and has a ho-
mogeneous and long-settled population
furnish an impressive answer to the de-
spairing idea that n-partisanship in
local government is a mere professional
dream, an aspiration of the righteous i'm
practicables, moral romanticism leading
to weakness and confusion.
1t was that refusal to allow any of the
elements of a bargain to enter into his
nomination, coupled with Tammany's fear
of defeat-forcing the acceptance of an
unbound candidate with an irreproach-
able record-that put into Mayor Gay
nor's hands the supreme and indispen-
sable instrument of nonpartisan and pro-
gressive government, which. is absolute
independence.
AS soon as he assumed office the MAYOR
made it plain that the order of things
had been reversed. He refused to go to
the bosses. The bosses went to him
and submitted their suggestions, and he
dealt with them as he saw fit. Even the
dullest politician saw that the day had
passed when the organization" could
work out a programme in secret and
hand it to the mayor for fulfillment. He
appointed men of character. ability and
experience to conduct the various de-
partments of the city government Sew
eral of them were millionaire business
men. Not one was a saloonkeeper. Even
the newspapers which had most bitterly
opposed his election frankly applauded
his appointments. When he desired adj
vice he consulted his official associates,
not the district political leaders.
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God hides Himself In His essence. We
do not know Gods essence. But then we
do not know the essence of any one
thing In the universe. We know quail
ties, attributes, characters-not essences.
We do not distinguish things one from
another by their essences. Nobody can
tell the difference in essence between
any two objects, because we do not know
the essense of either
When the Lord commanded Moses to
go and speak to the children of Israel,
Moses asked. who shall I say it is that
sent me?" And the Lord said, Tell
them 1 Am hath sent you" By this we
understand that Jehovah presents Him
self as absolute essence, self-existent, in
dependent substance. Now this is just
what we find it impossible to comprehend.
God hides Himself in His creation.
Cosmogonies are all unsatisfactory, and
have never seen anything more thor
oughly unintelligfble than are some of
the theories of world-building made by