The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1911-04-07

territory belonging 10 China
would be considered an act un.
friendly to the United States.
II is now proper to give the his
tory Of the scape goat. The first
and only occasion upon which an
innocent was loaded with the
sins of people is to be found
recorded with all the attending
ceremonies in the Bible. Bible,
meaning The Book, or by pre-em-
inence, The Book of Books. The
sixteenth chapter Of Lcviticus, at
the twenty-first and twenty-sec-
ond verses, give minute de-
scription of the strangestvicar-
ious atonement the world fer
saw. The story il told in the fol
lowing words: "And Aaron shall
lay both his hands upon the h..
of the live goat, and confess over
him all the iniquities of the chill
dren Of Israel. and all their trans
gressions in all their sins. put
ting them Upon the head of the
goat, and shall send him away by
the hand of a fit man into the S1l
derness; and the goat shall hear
upon him all their iniquities unto
a land not inhabited; apd he
shall let go the goat in the will
derness. y
If we could believe that the
goat carried away all the sins,
transgressions, slime and rotten
ness of the children of Israel, we
should have the most sincere
sympathy for the goat. All ami
mails labor constantly to rid them
selves of vermine, and all impur-
tiles. Naturaists tell us that a
fox afflicted with fieas is accus-
toned to take straw, or long
feather in the mouth, and back
slowly into a stream of water.
The feas not liking their cold
bath, leave the immersed parts,
and seek dry parts of the fox. Sa-
gacious. cunning Reynard, sinks
deeper and deeper in the water,
until nothing but the nose is dry.
The heas crawl out upon the nose
then upon the straw or feather;
presto, the straw is dropped into
the water. and our sly friend
laughs at his torment0rs as they
float down the stream. But my
great admiration of the sagacity
of animals has caused me to di-
gress, and ! hasten to say that il
the goat did not receive any con
taminatiOn from his contact with
the Israelites. ! do not believe
that he carried away anything
injurious To, him; on the contrary
| believe il was of the greatest
possible advantage to him that he
was turned loose in an uninhab-
tied wilderness consequently
without IsraeiteS. II makes uS
blush all over our heads to be
forced to believe that any race
Of human beings ever lived upon
the earth who possessed so little
intelligence as TO indulge in the
horrible mummery described. All
subsequent history conclusively
proves that no vice, sin. evil or
atrocity ever departed from the |
lsraeliies. through the senseeSs.
vicarious atonement Of the goat. /
We very often use this story as |
n joke. hut in most cases il is
used TO divert attention from the
real criminal. or offender; and fix /
il upon a party who is innocent.
Ia regard to Russia S policy of |
national expansion there has new
er been any change since Ivan.
the terrible. " certainly not since
Peter the Great The occaS-
ION and the power TO seize and
hold have always been the only
conditions requisite. Russia $
brutal treatment OF Emma al the
present lime is only the story Of
the wolf and the lamb. on larg-
pr scale. How dare You muddy
The water ! drink = Russia
knows that all the other nations
want a slice of China. She wants
he great province of Manchuria.
Keep Japan busy watching the
of the L. :. A. Keep
he L. s. a. watching the Phil
pines. the Hawaiian Islands, Mag
ialcna Bay. and the Panama Ca
nal. that she will not dare to
again protest against the dismem-
lerment of China. and the thing
IS done How simple il all looks.
In the larger cities Chicago New
\ ork. and London. If gang of
wish to make great
laul. they start a conhagrHtion
IA u part of the city hest calculai-
ii to divert attention from the
ocality of the burglary. ] believe
hat the underlying principles