D 359 
 .7 
 .Sfc2 
 
 : <8i:®>\ 
 
 JtjZj&J* &&J&&Ji&jA^. *■■,>' • : 
 
 J, R. SMITH, II, D. 
 
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 Chap. Copyright No.. 
 
 Shelflsu. 
 
 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 
 
THE AUTO -CHRIST 
 
 (SELF -ANOINTED) 
 
 J. R. SMITH, M. D. 
 
 'V 
 
 CINCINNATI, OHIO 
 
 THE STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY 
 
 Publishers of Christian Literature 
 
 V 
 
TWO COPIES RECEIVED. 
 
 Ljbrarv of r«- 
 
 Off: J° t 0B 5"«% 
 
 « " ter of Copyright 
 
 v 
 
 49533 
 
 Copyrighted, 1899, by 
 J. R. Smith, M. D. 
 
 SECOND COPY, 
 
 
DEDICATION. 
 
 To the memory of my mother, who 
 taught me to love truth, and to my wife, 
 who helped me to practice it, these pages 
 are dedicated by The ^Author. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 The Auto-Christ set forth in the text has no 
 relevancy, except by antithesis, to the Messiah 
 of Hebrew hope and Christian faith. One may be 
 the anointed in many more senses than that of a 
 Saviour. In truth, my Christos is an anointed 
 destroyer of the divine dogma of popular self-gov- 
 ernment, as taught and practiced by Saxon Chris- 
 tendom. The thought of an enthroned community 
 whose will, crystallized into law, should govern all 
 the relations of citizenship, has ever been the bogy- 
 man of autocracy. 
 
 However well or illy I have placed my figures 
 on the mind's cnnvas, I ask no favor or praise 
 from any but the citizen king. To the common 
 roan, to whom I am a brother, the little book is 
 submitted. From him alone I shall care for com- 
 mendation or blame. All others are as far be- 
 neath me as the subject is beneath the sovereign. 
 
 Mt. Vernon, Mo. j. r. s. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 I'AGK 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 The Grounds of Prediction 3 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 The Grouping of Nations 32 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 The Colonial Policy, as Affecting the Eastern 
 Question 38 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 The Glimmerings of a Prediction 45 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 Some Facts, Figures and Fancies Relating to the 
 Destiny of the Napoleonidae 48 
 
 Readings for the Evening Service 72 
 
 Post -ludium 72 
 
 Post-scriptum 72 
 
 Appendix 74 
 
THE AUTO -CHRIST. 
 
 (SELF-ANOINTED.) 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 THE GROUNDS OF PREDICTION. 
 
 The coasts of history are strewn with the wrecks of pre- 
 dictions launched by historians and philosophers.— Bryce. 
 
 The man who so far forgets the skeptical color 
 of the age as to pose as a predictor of future results 
 of present scientific, political or socialistic condi- 
 tions, will find himself addressing the deaf ear. 
 We are such a matter-of-fact people, and we are so 
 busily engaged in the vast and diversified interests 
 which immediately concern our welfare, either as 
 individuals or communities, that we have by busi- 
 ness methods ingrained into our every relation of 
 social and political life the ancient maxim, " Suf- 
 ficient for the day is the evil thereof." Really wo 
 have come to place little reliance, and less faith, on 
 all pretended statements of prescience. And yet, 
 there are conditions constantly presenting, from 
 which the ordinarily intelligent person may, with 
 
THE AUTO-CIIRIST. 
 
 good degree of confidence, predict results with con- 
 siderable certainty and accuracy. Thus: Knowing 
 that both the House and Senate of our Congress 
 are of a certain political color and the President in 
 accord therewith, we may with great confidence, 
 especially if public sentiment also agrees, predict 
 a certain line of legislation. We may indeed al- 
 most surely point out the men, who by service have 
 endeared themselves to this party, that will be 
 appointed to places of honor and trust. And, 
 knowing the temper of our President, his Cabinet 
 and the majority in Congress, we may hypothecate 
 a condition of difference between our Government 
 and a foreign power, and say absolutely what will 
 be the course pursued relating thereto. Further : 
 Should that difference relate to questions of great 
 gravity, in which are involved national inter- 
 ests, and perhaps the national existence of one 
 or both contestants, and knowing the mental 
 and moral force of our opponent, we could predict 
 with tolerable certainty the settlement of the ques- 
 tion with or without war. All this can be and i-, 
 being done by men who make no pretension to pro- 
 phetic qualifications other than purely human. 
 
 In formulating a series of events likely to come 
 to pass affecting two or more nations, strict regard 
 must be had to national character and mental con- 
 stitution. The stolidity of the Mongolian and the 
 fire of the Latin must be carefully weighed. And 
 in predicting the settling of controversies between 
 
THE AUTO-CHRIST. 5 
 
 these two peoples, not the least factor in the prob- 
 lem would be these characteristics of the two races. 
 In collecting data for predicting future results, 
 an intimate and varied knowledge of many things 
 is necessary. Having under consideration the 
 probable course of a nation as a participant in the 
 adjustment of conflicting interests, such as are now 
 disturbing Europe, we, to be correct in any meas- 
 ure, must be informed as to the history of that na- 
 tion for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years. 
 We must know of her ambitions and efforts ; of the 
 character and direction of the same; her powers of 
 recuperation, after defeats which come to all peo- 
 ples in the course of their national existence. We 
 must, by the light of history, watch her past deal- 
 ings with her neighbors ; ascertain if these neigh- 
 bors were weak or strong, and in what this weak- 
 ness or strength consisted. We must know of her 
 religion ; of her commerce ; of her internal policies 
 and polity ? of the permanency of her prejudices, 
 hopes and peculiar trend of thought and action. 
 We must know, in short, if she be clever, studious, 
 greedy of territory, of wealth, of show, of power ; 
 if she be changeable or changeless in her loves and 
 hates ; if literary or -careless of knowledge ; if per- 
 sistent or erratic ; and, in fact, study her communal 
 character as we would that of an individual. When 
 we have thus analyzed her, and, likewise, her neigh- 
 bors, and have informed ourselves of all the condi- 
 tions that bear on her existence and continuance as 
 
G THE AFTO-dlRTST. 
 
 a nation, and taken into full account all the point; 
 of friction from contiguous communities, Ave nia< 
 then formulate a prediction of her future. 1j 
 like manner may we venture regarding the destiny 
 of an individual ; though there be elements in this 
 last not present with nations. 
 
 By these means and others, which the nature 
 of the problem will suggest, we may point with 
 some accuracy to the nation, or the individual, 
 most likely to be " fittest to survive," and the en- 
 vironments most likely to accommodate the sur- 
 vivor. 
 
 Let us apply somewhat of the foregoing to our 
 aborigines. We find them, on our first acquaint- 
 ance, a wily, cunning, simple folk, whose ambition- 
 grasped no more than was necessary to the gratifi 
 cation of physical wants, and tribal continuance. 
 Right and wrong, so far as an abstract concept was 
 concerned, were entirely unknown to them. The 
 individual's notion of right was limited to the idea 
 of good for himself and his tribe. That broadness 
 of the good which we include in the meaning of the 
 word " humane," had never taught him the first 
 elements of mercy. Hence, he had no compunc- 
 tion for the slaughtered infants, and helpless and 
 hapless aged of those who traversed his sup- 
 posed right to the game or the hunting- ground. 
 We find him unalterably true to the traditions 
 of his ancestors, in that his enemies must be 
 destroyed from the earth. His intellectual fac 
 
THE AUTO-CHRIST. 7 
 
 ulties, above perception, were almost nil. Con- 
 tact with civilization has proved that ages of 
 restraint and instruction would have been spent 
 in vain to bring him up to the level of the 
 Saxon, at the time of the battle of Hastings. 
 And yet, for all this, he was a proud, kind, cruel, 
 ignorant human, who seemingly had readied the 
 limit of his possible development, in his environ- 
 ments, so long ago that he had crystallized into an 
 unchangeable fixity. His low estimate of human 
 life had limited his kind in number, and a plenti- 
 ful supply of game had cut short his invention. 
 There was no necessity for him to know more, in 
 order to live ; and this lack of necessity took away 
 any possibility of a foundation for intellectual ad- 
 vancement. 
 
 Take, now, into consideration, the love of lib- 
 erty, coached and cultivated in the Saxon by long 
 years of oppression, during and following the feu- 
 dal ages, and it would have required no inspiration 
 to foretell which should survive a clash of interests. 
 
 The one great conservative force, which has 
 kept China, an empire of over four hundred mil- 
 lions of souls, in unprogressive status, is her relig- 
 ion, which includes all the laws of state, com- 
 munity and family. This religion is expressed in 
 the one phrase "Ancestral Worship." And the very 
 terms imply the profound filial ties which form the 
 basis of national character. Such a people will 
 not war with others, except in a defensive way; 
 
'8 THE AUTO-CHRIST. 
 
 and one outgrowth of this defensive spirit was 
 their great wall, built more than two centuries be- 
 fore Christ. They, more than all others, simply 
 asked to be let alone. And it was the filial cohe- 
 siveness of their immense bulk, as a community, 
 that preserved them until such time as national 
 honor, amongst other nations, in a measure, stayed 
 the grasping hand of greed. Knowing, now, the 
 trend of thought and action in Russia towards an 
 all-year open port, should the frozen Sclavic eye, 
 restless in its icy lids, rest on China's harbors, one 
 might predict that, either by diplomatic intrigue 
 or actual conquest, the track of the Muscovite 
 bear could be easily traced on eastern Pacific 
 shores. Indeed, in subsequent pages this will be 
 plainly indicated. 
 
 Japan has long been the hermit nation. With 
 a religion based on hero worship, her character has 
 been developed along military lines, until, by re- 
 cent contact with advanced aggressive thought, 
 she is assuming the port and demeanor of a little 
 giant. Her extensive coast line and comparatively 
 limited territory has compelled a rapprochement, 
 in late years, with dominant naval powers of the 
 higher type; especially Great Britain, which, from 
 commercial interests, seems to be destined as the 
 strong friend of this newly clothed warrior. 
 Knowing the Japanese as we do, we may say with 
 surety that Saxon enterprise will receive a potent 
 second from the Flowery Kingdom. And, predi- 
 
THE AUTO-CITKIST. 9 
 
 eating a conflict of arms between England and 
 Russia, it is not difficult to perceive an alignment 
 of these two diverse powers, in opposition to Scla- 
 .ic expansion. 
 
 It has been a confusing effort to place the Ger- 
 man peoples in a light by which we might judge 
 of the political point to which their nation is steer- 
 ing. Germany is preeminently a pyschological 
 nation. Her laboratory alembic, instead of her 
 clinic, forms the opinions on which she acts ; hence, 
 she is ever dominated, in politics as well as religion, 
 by the dictum of the higher critics. Yet, for all 
 this, when confronted by the stern facts of a posi- 
 tive condition, her prescriptions for national ail- 
 ments are usually built up rationally, and in accord 
 with a rugged honesty. And while the present 
 Emperor may be somewhat intoxicated on that 
 old wine labeled " The Divine Right of Kings," 
 yet the German citizen, in his sober moments, will 
 certainly exercise his native good sense, and main- 
 lain the entente cordiale with his Saxon cousin. 
 Hence, as a prediction founded on a knowledge 
 )f Teutonic morals and Sclavic ambition, we may 
 say that, for German favors, the Saxon holds the 
 winning card. 
 
 Rome has figured largely in the changes that 
 have come in the evolution of earth's empires. 
 But— 
 
 "Rome! Rome! Thou art no more 
 As thou hast been !" 
 
10 TUB AUTO-CHRIST. 
 
 Going hack into the dim distance of the past, we see 
 Rome as a physical giant. Noble and admirable 
 in all things that pertain to the material, even her 
 gods were naught bnt the iron idealism of a 
 Romulus. 
 
 The law of physical development has its lim- 
 its, then comes senility, with its attendant irrita- 
 bility and paralysis agitans. Snch is Rome to-day, 
 including all her descendants — the Latin race. 
 Prominently may be seen the mixture of the iron 
 and the clay in the existence of her decaying ex- 
 tremities. A people strong to great endurance, 
 yet unable to govern themselves for want of cohe- 
 rency. The hand of the autocrat alone can guide 
 them in the accomplishment of feats for which they 
 are yet capable. That guiding hand must come 
 from another race than theirs. Hence, on all great 
 occasions, we must look for a leader for them, 
 not of their blood. The present leadership of Eu- 
 rope does not contain a single prominent individ- 
 ual, of the Latin race, likely to make himself felt, 
 in military or diplomatic fields, when the Czar's 
 proposition to disarm shall be reversed. 
 
 Inasmuch as physical growth precedes and is 
 accomplished before the mental, it would be in the 
 nature of things to expect that decay of the former 
 should take place in advance of the latter. And 
 so it is found that literature, art and philosophy 
 still remain in the memory of the children of the 
 land of Plato, Aristotle, Bipamus, Syllis and 
 
THE A-UTO-OHRIST. 11 
 
 "burning Sappho"; while scarce a trace of the 
 gladiator in He Latine Basileia is to be found. 
 And, looking to atavic laws, ever and anon may be 
 expected another Hannibal or Leonidas, capable of 
 segregating' forces for defense, conquest and domin- 
 ion. And the prediction that such an one, of Hel- 
 lenistic blood, would come forth to astonish the 
 world, would not fail of verification by more than 
 one or two centuries at a time. 
 
 Some thoughts will now be offered regarding 
 ihe Saxon, and that which may be asserted respect- 
 ing the " sphere of influence," which destiny seems 
 ro have meted and bounded only by the far-reach- 
 ing demands of the universal Christian brother- 
 hood of man; and its fundamental, the like exten- 
 sive Fatherhood of God. Wherever the Saxon 
 shoon have left their " footprints on the sands of 
 time," men have bowed in worshipful reverence, 
 or stood erect without fear of molestation, in the 
 exercise of private judgment. Men like Hume, 
 Hobbes, Gibbon and Paine have scoffed, and Wes- 
 ley, Wilberforce, Watson and Raikes have prayed, 
 while still the great throb of the Saxon heart hus 
 synchronized with the Sermon on the Mount, with- 
 out break in rhythm or loss of a beat. Spreading 
 to the West, these sons of liberty clipped the in- 
 quisitorial wings, and quenched the torch of 
 religious proscription. Reaching to the far East, 
 to the very land of the cradle of humanity, tliev 
 are rehabilitating the swarthv descendants of the 
 
12 THE ATTTO-CHRIST. 
 
 Son of the Sun, with a humanitarian glory thai is 
 turning (lie frozen eye of Gog green with envy 
 One of their number, Sergeant What 's 'is Name, 
 lias placed his molding hand on kilns' head, and 
 vhile he 
 
 "Drilled a black man white, 
 And made a mummy fight," 
 
 He has raised Noph and Taphenes and Thebes to a 
 place from whence they can read the Decalogue, 
 in Gaelic characters, inscribed on Cheops. This 
 xanthochroic renovator of the ages, turning his 
 attention to the land of the unspeakable Turk, has 
 planted the Roberts' School in defiance of the cres- 
 cent, and sown the seeds of a better life amid the 
 sickening stench of a decaying religions curse. 
 Striking the Dark Continent at its extreme south- 
 ern cape, he has domesticated the African calf, and 
 drawn from its productive udder the rich food for 
 the nourishment of millions of freemen, who, yes- 
 terday, paid for a thought of liberty with the life- 
 blood of slaves. His plans are now laid, and ready 
 for execution, to rivet the great stones which Jere- 
 miah placed in the claypits for the resting-place of 
 Babylon's king, to the Cape of Good Hope, ayont 
 the Equator, with a double ribbon of steel, along 
 which shall speed the twentieth-century transporta- 
 tion of a continent. In "ships of whirling things," 
 he has sounded every depth and shoal of old ocean's 
 broad expanse, and almost hung the star-spangled 
 banner and union jack on each of earth's opposing 
 
TI1K AUTO-CHRIST. 13 
 
 poles. He has caught the gleam of Bethlehem's 
 star, and made it the woof of a royal robe for his 
 youngest daughter, Columbia, whose electric span- 
 gles dazzle the world. 
 
 It is evident that the Saxon brotherhood, with 
 that restlessness born of genius, is widening its 
 sphere of influence more rapidly than any other 
 people now on the earth. It is a safe prediction 
 to assert that, unless cheeked by a force equally 
 powerful as themselves,. they will, ere long, dictate 
 the policy of China and Africa, as they now do of 
 India. The dominion of the Latin, as upheld by 
 Spain, is a thing of the past in the far East. That 
 same influence will eventually Saxonize Mexico, 
 Central and South America. Only one power, 
 now, is strong enough to even offer a check to this 
 expansion spirit of Briton and Yankee. That 
 power is Russia. 
 
 With the awakening of that ambition which 
 the other powers have looked upon as dormant, the 
 Sclav has shown the direction of his thoughts to he 
 southward and eastward. Afghanistan and Persia 
 lie in his way; Turkey also blocks his road. He 
 conceives that the sphere of his influence nmst en- 
 circle Palestine, necessarily for religious purposes, 
 and sweep dangerously near to the Saxon sphere 
 in China and India. His methods are cold, creep- 
 ing, slow, like the frozen monster that he is. 
 
 As to the Turk, we know that while he is active, 
 ever loyal to his religion, and has added quite a 
 
14 THE AUTO-CIIUIST. 
 
 modicum to his self-esteem in his recent Cretan 
 war with Greece, he must have a mentor to show 
 his kismet, and upon whom he can rely in circum- 
 stances of great stress. Under all the conditions 
 and mental methods which have been fastening on 
 him for ages, we can not formulate for him any 
 progress or elevation in the years to come. Hence, 
 in all matters which may arfect him, we must ex- 
 pect of him that he he a hanger-on, rather than an 
 advance host, in matters of large import to Europe 
 and Asia. 
 
 As, from our point of view, there can be but 
 two sides to the overwhelming question which now 
 presses for solution in the Orient, we can express 
 the supposed conditions in no better manner than 
 tc quote from our article on the Spanish War, pub- 
 lished in a local paper, last July: 
 
 The Sclav is the human beaver. He constantly bmlds his 
 dam according to worn-out and ancient methods, across the 
 stream of progress, thereby forming stagnating pools of Ori- 
 ental conservatism, in which humanity forever maintains a 
 dead level. Tt is the destiny of the Saxon to tear out these 
 obstructions to the current of human thought, straighten the 
 stream of civilization, beautifying its banks with flowers of 
 love, kindness and equality, and make a pleasant voyage pos- 
 sible for the nation to rapidly reach the millennial ocean of the 
 universal brotherhood of man. To the eye of the thoughtless 
 this seems as bombast and idle dreaming. But to him who, 
 student-like, looks beneath the surface for motives and ener- 
 gies that form nations and wipe out boundary lines, it is more 
 than a dream. Russia is constantly pushing, by diplomatic art 
 and mercantile methods, her way across Asia to the rich 
 treasure-troves of India. It is not best for human weal that 
 Czarism should be extended, and Saxon genius knows it. 
 Where duty calls in the interest of his kind, the Saxon never 
 
THK AUTO-CHRIST. 
 
 15 
 
 halts or falters. Here, then, stands face to face, in warlike 
 attitude, Progress and Conservatism, personified by the Ameri- 
 can Eagle and the British Liou as the first, and the Selavie 
 Bear and the Mohammedan Crescent of the Osmanli- Vilayet 
 as the second. 
 
 As a reenforcement to the theory that but two 
 sides present for the final adjudication of the • 
 Eastern controversy, we ask to submit the entire 
 following statement by an American mining engi- 
 neer, Mr. W. E. Bratton, published in the Wash- 
 ington Post: 
 
 "Americans do not dream of the wonderful things that 
 are going on in Russia," said Mr. W. E. Bratton, an American 
 mining engineer, to a Post reporter at the Ebbitt. 
 
 "I have been in Siberia for a year in the interest of a 
 London company, and while in the Czar's dominion £ found out 
 enough to make me absolutely certain that the Russians con- 
 template the execution of the most gigantic scheme of terri- 
 torial absorption ever undertaken by any race on this earth. 
 There is no limit to their ambition, and the idea of failure in 
 their plans : s not conceivable. To begin with, the will of the 
 Russian people is absolute, and not the caprice of the Czar, as 
 most of our countrymen are apt to think. The Czar can no 
 more go contrai-y to public opinion in his empire than the Pres- 
 ident of the United States can defy the wishes of the America-i 
 people. 
 
 "In a long talk with a high Russian official, last summer, 
 he outlined to me the national program. Among other things 
 he said: 'The great belt of open country lying between the 
 Ural Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, and included within 
 the north temperate zone, is going to be thrown open for settle- 
 ment. It will be a breeding-ground for millions of our race. 
 We will rear countless numbers of men and women, and half 
 the men will be trained for war. We will be able by that time 
 to put more soldiers in the field than all the rest of Europe put 
 together. When this condition arrives, what power or what 
 combination of powers will be able to stop us ? America will 
 be our only rival, but between us and the great republic across 
 the sea there will be no clash, for she will be supreme in hex 
 
16 TIFK AUTO-CHRIST. 
 
 quarter of the worttl, as we will be in Europe and Central 
 Asia. 
 
 " ' We are satisfied with present home conditions, but 
 just as soon as the opportune time comes, we will, without 
 bloodshed or revolution, dispense with the Czar, and have a 
 representative government Look now at the condition of 
 Europe; there are really but four leading Powers— Russia, 
 England, Germany aud Prance France is fast disappearing 
 as a factor in the situation, for either she will go to the wall 
 through some crisis, like that now threatening her, or by the 
 sure process of internal decay. England will then seize upon 
 all her territorial possessions. In a quarter of a century from 
 now, France will be of no more consequence than Spain is to- 
 day. Then Germany will be left between England and Russia, 
 and Germany, too, will be unable to stand the test of the sur- 
 vival of the fittest. I don't say these things will occur in a 
 few years, but a century is nothing in the history of na- 
 tions. 
 
 •• ' Now, then, what have we left but a fight to the finish 
 between the Sclav and the Anglo-Saxon? After all, racial 
 antipathy is at the bottom of the strife. The Russian despises 
 the Briton, and the hatred is returned with vengeance. In the 
 long run we shall beat England. We will do it by the sheer 
 force of numbers, if through no other means. England cau 
 continue to boast of her supremacy on the seas but it means 
 comparatively little there, for we will shut her out of all East- 
 ern ports, and by land she will no more compare with us than 
 a pigmy with a giant. 
 
 •''See what we have already done in the acquisition of 
 Turkestan, Manchuria and Mongolia. As sure as fate, China — 
 not a part, but all of it— will, in no distant time, be an inte- 
 gral part of the great Russian Empire. There is no human 
 power that can stop us. Our Siberian Railroad is but the be- 
 ginning of a system of railway lines that will penetrate every 
 part of China, and will make our hold on that country perma- 
 nent. And T can tell you still more. Russia does n't want any 
 outsiders in China, or any other part of her Asiatic dominions, 
 and when the time comes she will say to England and to Ger- 
 many, and even to the United States, this territory is exclu- 
 sively for us ; we do not mean to be rude, but, gentlemen, you 
 must get out. And get out they will, for with all the railways 
 in our possession, and with a million of soldiers, who will op- 
 pose us V 
 
THE AUTO-CI1U1ST. ]7 
 
 "This Is only a small part of what my Russian friend 
 told me; but before I left the country 1 talked with other high- 
 class men, and everyone confirmed his statements. My own 
 judgment is that there is nothing improbable or visionary in 
 the program. I think that Kussia is as certain to dominate 
 Asia as we are to rule this continent. The Englishmen I met 
 abroad are certain that ultimately they have got to fight Kus- 
 sia, for the Sclav is not going to be satisfied with Korea, China, 
 Persia and the rest; he has pushed his iron highway within 
 seventy-five miles of the Indian frontier, and dreams of the 
 day when he will strip .lohn Bull of all his possessions there. 
 This he can do just as easily as we could take Canada, for the 
 geographical situation is almost identical." 
 
 The above statement of Mr. Bratton came to 
 our knowledge after our MS. had been completed 
 and ready for the publisher. We the more cheer- 
 fully rearrange our pages for the reason given 
 above, and for the further reason that it sustains 
 our opinion of Czar Nicholas and the Russian peo- 
 ple, given in a subsequent page. This opinion the 
 reader will find expressed in the following words: 
 " He [the Czar] is believed to be conscientiously 
 committed to the betterment of Russia, within 
 monarchical limits; and is only pressed to the fore, 
 in China and the East, because Sclavic thought 
 demands expansion to counteract supposed Saxon 
 land-hunger," etc. We believe the final conflict 
 between Russia and Saxondom will come much ear- 
 lier in the future than Mr. Bratton supposes. 
 Probably 1920, A. D., will see the end of it, 
 
 That which has been said of Turkey in a great, 
 measure applies to Italy, Portugal, Spain, Hun- 
 gary and Austria. It is very evident that, with 
 these nations, Russia is looked to for a leader. 
 
18 TirB AUTO-CHRIST. 
 
 But there is yet a nation, from whose individ- 
 ual citizens, and kindred outside blood, much may 
 be expected, when the dogs of Avar are let loose in 
 earnest. Our estimate of the Greek is given above, 
 and to him we now refer. It will appear what 
 may be expected from him when in our last chap- 
 ter he is brought on as the fancied Auto-Christ. 
 
 Still another factor, in this relation, must be 
 taken note of, more as a catalytic than a prominent 
 participant. Reference is he. - had to those people 
 who have been " scattered and peeled " for more 
 than twenty-five hundred years; to-wit, the Jews. 
 In estimating the influence of Judaism on civili- 
 zation in the years to come, it is necessary to take 
 into account the tendency of what is known in mod- 
 ern terminology as the Trust. The tribe, or fam- 
 ily competed of individuals, in the childhood of 
 the communal state, constitutes the trust; and its 
 ethics were bounded by the simple demands for 
 protection, sustenance and physical comfort of the 
 members of the community. As the evolution of 
 the aesthetic went forward in long succeeding ages, 
 its orismologic lines were widened, so as to include 
 other sources of enjoyment and action, until we 
 find in Judaism a homogeneous people, subservi- 
 ent to a code which lightened the burdens of the 
 poor and unfortunate of its members, while it re- 
 strained the greed of the wealthy and strong. Thus 
 Judaism became the ideal trust of all times and all 
 elimes. 
 
THE AUTO-CHRIST. 19 
 
 The living energy of the modus vivendi of the 
 trust is its communal desire for the benefit of all 
 its members. And strict observance of the gov- 
 erning rules and regulations of the body gives it 
 its great power to accomplish the ends for which 
 it was formed, as against the anarchical efforts of 
 all erratic opposition. And so, when the trust 
 shall have been brought to include, in full fellow- 
 ship and benefit, all members of a state or 
 government, then that state or government, if 
 under a code in accord with right reason and 
 high morals, will assume, naturally, a domina- 
 ting position amongst equals, and even superiors 
 in numbers, if these be not so wisely coherent in 
 aims and action. All this is in true accord and 
 harmony with man's mental and moral constitu- 
 tion. His constant normal disposition, except un- 
 der insane mental processes, is to congregate. 
 Knowing this natural social tendency, Aristotle 
 called him the politikos zoon, and such by creation 
 he is. And so it may of a truth be said that the 
 trust is man's normal estate. Without it he be- 
 comes the sport of spiritual and physical environ- 
 ments, and is practically placed in the loneliness 
 of a hermitage. 
 
 Viewing Judaism in the above light, and know- 
 ing that the basic principle of the Judaic trust was 
 individual prosperity, we need not be amazed at the 
 proud splendor of David's and Solomon's reigns. 
 Neither need we wonder at the heights to which 
 
20 THE AUTOC1IIUST. 
 
 lier prophets and priests climbed, when we call to 
 mind the policy of elevating the community by 
 raising the individual members thereof. 
 
 Just now we are somewhat startled by the or- 
 ganization of another Judaic trust, strictly on 
 ancient lines, which, knowing Jewish wealth and 
 persistence of purpose, may well cause world-wide 
 wonder and admiration. Reference is to the Zion- 
 ist movement, which held its congress last year at 
 Basle, Switzerland. To place this movement in 
 its proper light, I can not do so well otherwise as 
 to quote, quite at length, from a letter by Rabbi 
 Wise, published in the Daily Republic, St. Louis, 
 Dec. 18, 1898. The stupendous import of the 
 movement to the world is sufficient excuse for the 
 length of the extract : 
 
 "Among: the striking features of the late Zionist Congress 
 at Basle was the presence of a representative of the German 
 Emperor, and the receipt of a cordial message of good will 
 from the Sultan addressed to the president of the congress in 
 respmse to the latter's felicitations. Furthermore, when the 
 proposal of the Russian Czar looking to the convening of repre- 
 sentatives of the Powers for the purpose of considering the 
 possibility of checking the universal spread of militarism was 
 hailed with joyous acclaim by the peace-loving and thoughtful 
 Jews in Basle assembled, the wiser and calmer heads urged 
 that to the formal congratulations of the congress be added an 
 expression of the hope that the proposed international con- 
 ference concern itself, in the spirit of wisdom and understand- 
 ing, with the pressing Jewish question, and more especially 
 with such solution thereof as looked to the repeopling of Zion 
 by the scions of its ancient dwellers. 
 
 " Not long thereafter an extraordinary mass-meeting of 
 Jews was held at London in advocacy of the Zionist cause, at 
 which Dr. Theodor Herzel thrilled his seven thousand hearers 
 
THE AUTO-CUKirfT. ti 1 
 
 by declaring 'We are nearer success Lima people imagine' 
 But a few weeks have gone since that memorable night for the 
 •Jewry of London, and within that brief time gigantic strides 
 forward have been made by our leader and his chosen follow- 
 ers. To particularize, Herzel and a deputation of Zionists have 
 been at Constantinople, Jerusalem and Rome. Even though 
 it be true that Herzel was 'playing at ante-chamber diplo- 
 macy' — the contemptuous term employed by his opponeuts— 
 he might well have justified his seemingly dilatory policy by 
 replying that a colossal scheme, affecting the interests of all 
 nations in one way or another, could hardly be expected to be 
 carried into effect in one day or in one year. To their honor 
 be it said, the masses enrolled under the flag of Zion have been 
 patient and uncomplaining, but the Jewish anti-Zionists — 
 strange contradiction in terms — have asked with wearying per- 
 sistence to be permitted to behold some practical, tangible issue. 
 as a result of the unprecedented activity of every kind within 
 the Zionist camp. Not because of these unseemly taunts, 
 and yet, as it were, in triumphant answer to them, Herzel has 
 been doing great things in these weeks for the cause of which 
 he is the accredited spokesman. November, 1S9S, will be 
 writ large in the calendar of Zionist history. 
 
 "The Jewish people, the wide world over, have been ob- 
 serving the festive celebration of the Chanuckah season, and 
 abundant reason is at hand for a more joyous commemoration 
 than has been the wont of the Jews for more than eighteen 
 hundred years. The words of Zechariah, which are annually 
 intoned as the keynote of the festival commemorative of the 
 wresting of Judea from the hands of the Syrian rulers by 
 the Maccabean heroes in the year 165 of the pre-Christian era, 
 are about to be fulfilled, 'not by might or by power, but by my 
 Spirit.' The Maccabean victory was wrested from the jaws of 
 defeat by the fearless might and the unconquerable power of 
 the Jewish warriors. Our bloodless victory is to be achieved 
 by ' my Spirit ' — the Spirit of God resting upon the leaders of 
 Isr lei, the Spirit of God moving some of the great rulers of tb« 
 earth to deal in equity and righteousness with a long-suffe.ri'ig 
 and deeply wronged people. 
 
 " On his homeward way Herzel visited Rome. Whether 
 he has succeeded in gaining the sympathy of the Pontiff of the 
 Roman Church can not be stated at this time. One year ago, 
 soon after the former congress was held, the Pope was declared 
 to be unalterably opposed to Zionism, and to be prepared to 
 
22 THE AUTO-CIIKIST. 
 
 brmg tlie vast intineuce of his ehurcb to bear at the Sublime 
 Porte against the cause Official denial of this rumor was 
 later made, and there is 110 reason for believing that the atti- 
 tude of the Pope is one of unfriendliness. Being the spiritual 
 head of many European Governments and peoples, notably 
 France, Austria and Spain, the 'benevolent sanction' of Leo 
 XIII. is indispensable to the realization of Zionist aims, which 
 make for the establishment of Jews iu Palestine under the 
 suzerainty of the Sultan and the protection of a concert of the 
 European Powers. 
 
 " Why should such ' benevolent sanction,' as is sought, be 
 withheld? Rome entertains no ambition for the enlargement 
 of her possessions in Palestine other than those of markedly 
 sacred character. And if ambition there be, it must confess 
 itself checked in the presence of the Turco-German alli- 
 ance — despite the flattering gift of the Kaiser to his Roman 
 Catholic subjects. On the other hand, Rome and every Chris- 
 tian nation would surely welcome the advent of Jews in large 
 numbers into the 'land of hallowed memory,' seeing that this 
 infiltration would bring about the gradual and peaceable with- 
 drawal of the Mohammedan population. We do not ask that 
 the holy places be committed to our exclusive keeping ; let these 
 remain, as they are now, in the hands of those who guard and 
 cherish them. Surely the Christian world requires no as- 
 surance on our part that every spot which Christians hold in 
 reverence will be precious to us. The Jew shall not cease to 
 honor true devotion to an ideal — least of all in the land which 
 his past has hallowed for all time. 
 
 " Not in vain do we place our reliance upon Kaiser and 
 Sultan. Help and deliverance have come to us before through 
 the grace of 'stranger kings.' Two historic instances recur 
 to us of Israel marvelously saved and prospered with the help 
 of reigning kings. In the year 538 of the pre-Christian era Cyrus 
 took Babylon, and graciously permitted the Babylonian exiles 
 to return to their fatherland. 
 
 "The momentous results which followed from the re- 
 establishment of the Judean Commonwealth are part of — and 
 the largest part of — the world's history. A tree of two great 
 branches flourished in time on the soil which the former 
 captives by the rivers of Babylon began to cultivate with all 
 the ardor and assiduity of their nature— two branches, the one 
 the religion of Ezra and the latest prophets, of Hillel and the 
 rabbis; the other, the faith of Jesus, later became the Chris- 
 
TUB AUTOCIIRIST. J 6 
 
 tiaaity of his countless followers. And all this came to oass, 
 as Dr. Max Nordau has aptly pointed out, owing to the hardi- 
 hood of ahandful of the earliest Zionists, who, availing them- 
 selves of the rights accorded them by Cyrus the noble, chose 
 to give up their peaceful and secure residence in Babylon in 
 order to live and labor in Zion, and rebuild its waste places. 
 The second exile is soon to end. In the words of Josephine 
 Lazarus, 'Once planted again upon native soil, "taking root 
 downward," as Isaiah has it, who can tell what "upward 
 flower and fruit" the immortal branch may bear— what new 
 birth of the spirit, the undying spirit of Israel may give to the 
 world V 
 
 "Another king there was, grenter even than Cyrus, who, 
 like him, befriended the Jews. In the course of his victorious 
 marches Alexander visited Jerusalem in the year 332. Legends 
 in great number have been woven around this visit, picturing 
 the manner in which this youthful prince, who had come to 
 scoff, remained to pray. Whether it be true, as rabbinic tale 
 has it, that Alexander was so deeply impressed by the visage of 
 the venerable high priest Jaddua and the priestly train that 
 he was moved to bow in humility and adoration before those 
 whom he had set out to conquer, and that he even caused sacri- 
 iices to be offered up to the Most High in the Temple of Jeru- 
 salem, we can not tell. We do know, however, that this Mace- 
 donian ruler, far from despoiling and violating the shrine, as 
 had been and continued to be the custom of earlier and later 
 invading princes, openly befriended the Jews and treated them 
 with the utmost consideration and generosity. Alas! Alex- 
 ander died within a twelvemonth of his entry into Jerusalem, 
 and the benefits which doubtless would have accrued to the 
 Jews wei'e speedily annulled by his quarrelsome successors. 
 
 "Zionism can and will, be immeasurably furthered by the 
 great ones of the earth in our time. What is this Zionism ? Is 
 Zionism 'a vague scheme of to-day,' a 'dream of fantastic 
 content,' an 'ideal impossible of realization,' by all of which 
 names it has been styled, derisively ? Zionism is nigh unto 
 two thousand years old, dating from the seventieth year of 
 this era, which witnessed the fall of Judea into the power of 
 Rome. Zionism is that for whnh Jews of all the world 
 have prayed uninterruptedly ever since Titus laid ruthless 
 hand upon the Holy of holies — all the Jews excepting, it is 
 but fair to add, the comparatively small number comprising 
 the reform party, who, within the last one hundred years, have 
 
24 THK AUTO-OllKIST. 
 
 abandoned the national idea of Israel, and have held with Moses 
 Mendelssohn that Judaism stood for nothing: more than a re- 
 ligious brotherhood. 
 
 "Why, then, do some orthodox Jews seem to be arrayed 
 against Zionism, especially in England, Germany and Austria- 
 Hungary? How account for such opposition, seeing that they 
 daily pray for their reinstatement in control of Palestine ? 
 How account for this paradoxical state of affairs ? Perhaps, 
 alter the fashion of an old Russian rabbi, who said to me at 
 the Basle' congress, with inimitable humor, ' I do not venture 
 to advocate Zionism from my pulpit, for if I did my hearers 
 would make light of the whole matter, and think my advocacy 
 was but another strained interpretation of a Biblical text, and 
 another overpious attempt to explain away or excuse the ap- 
 parent futility of our pi'ayers in behalf of Zionism.' Has not 
 Rabbi A . A. Green, of London, spoken wisely, who pleads for 
 the wholehearted support of the Zionist movement on the part 
 of the Jewish nation, or else the effacement of every Zionist 
 reference from the prayer-book ? 
 
 •' Is there not something pathetic, almost tragic, in the at- 
 titude of those who pray for a boon for which, being within 
 reach, tbey will not even stretch forth their hands ? Zionism 
 must remain ' a dream and a mirage,' if these so decree. But 
 are not these awe-struck by the greatness of God's blessing, 
 blinded by the nearness of the Divine Presence about to lead the 
 children of Israel to their home ? Shall the ' great refusal' in 
 truth come to pass ? Not unless we will it. It can Dot be. 
 God hath willed otherwise for his well-beloved; the homeless 
 are already on the way homeward." 
 
 Now, let it be supposed that we are disposed to 
 make prediction regarding the results of this Zion- 
 ist movement. We must first look at, and care- 
 fully analyze, the Jewish character, as a whole. 
 Their cohesiveness as a people nationally. Their 
 commercial and financial wealth. Their disposi- 
 tion and readiness to invest that wealth for the up- 
 building of the Zion of their songs. Their helpful 
 efforts to their brethren in adversity. The domi- 
 nating hope of their lives, as shown in adversity 
 
THE AUTOCHBIST. 25 
 
 and prosperity. The doggedness of their supreme 
 faith in God's ultimate redemj)tion of their race 
 from that social and political ostracism which has 
 curtod them. for ages. And every other of the men- 
 tal, moral, personal and national characteristics 
 which do now, and have for ages, made the Jew 
 sui generis, either as a person or a community, 
 amongst the tribes of the earth. Then, turning 
 our attention to his environments, we would ask, 
 What effect would this movement have on the na- 
 tions of the earth? On the United States? On 
 Great Britain ? On Russia ? Germany ? Turkey ? 
 And others ? Is it likely that Russia and Turkey, 
 the two possibly the most interested, will give con- 
 sent ? What will Leo XIII., who spiritually rules 
 the Catholic world, say and do in the premises ? 
 Would Turkey give consent with the hope of lev- 
 erage on Jewish shekels ? Should she consent, 
 would the Muscovite Bear smell the game and forge 
 his vast body over Ararat and adown the valleys of 
 the Euphrates and Tigris ? And after taking all 
 the factors into count, and giving each its full 
 value, we would probably be inclined to say that 
 the movement will succeed. 
 
 Then, admitting this success, we might wish 
 to peer further into the future, and inquire of rele- 
 vant environments, " What nation would be most 
 eager to form an alliance with this whilom 
 hated and persecuted people?" The sick man of 
 the Crescent, although, since the affair of Crete, ap- 
 
26 THE AUTOCIIKIST. 
 
 ] >arently convalescent, can not possibly stand on hia 
 feet when Russia determines to move her frozen 
 battalions towards more sunny climes, as is evi- 
 dently her intent. He must bow the knee to 
 Sclavic demands. Would Russia, then, like the 
 consent of Judaism to fulfil the dream of Alexan- 
 der Alexeivitch ? If this consent were given, 
 would the proximity of the holy ceremony to the 
 British sphere cause objection on the part of the 
 Saxon ? Would the adherents of the Greek Catho- 
 lic and Mohammedan religions, the latter compelled 
 by Sclavic pressure, further test the strained re- 
 lations between Great Britain and Russia? Is it 
 probable that a confederation, including Italy, 
 Prance, Portugal and others, and presided over by 
 an appointee of Russia, might attempt to forward 
 the religious ends of the Greek pope ? In case this 
 rapprochement should be approached, what would 
 be the attitude thereto of the Sir Moses Montefi- 
 ores, the Baron Hirsches, the D'Israelis, the Rabbi 
 Wises and the Rothschilds — Judah's sous of giant 
 brain — then living? 
 
 To answer all these questions satisfactorily and 
 formulate predictions therefrom, one must have, 
 as on a chart, the mental and moral strength, the 
 grooves of thought, the patriotism, fraternal love, 
 pride of race, faith in the Hebrew cult and re- 
 ligious bias of the men who would have to deal 
 with the problems which such conditions present 
 for solution. 
 
THE AUTO-CHRIST. 
 
 27- 
 
 Again: In the settlement of these questions, 
 and others, which now agitate humanity, and will 
 continue to do so, until they be adjusted in the in- 
 terest of every human being concerned, the United 
 States of America must be accounted for, and 
 placed in position relatively to her interests, and 
 the interests of her citizens. As shown above, 
 American Saxondom is pushing to the fore, in 
 every land and among every people. That same 
 love of liberty begotten by the Spirit of the cru- 
 cified Jew, and born in the primitive Christian 
 Church, which took its way westward, passed out 
 between the pillars of Hercules, and took root and 
 flourished in the rich mulch left by the decay of 
 Scandinavian mythology on Drudic soil, crossed 
 the Atlantic, and, from the relay battery of Yan- 
 kee freedom receiving a new impulse, has already 
 civilized and peopled the weastern continent. Ever 
 restlessly active, it stopped not on the Pacific shore 
 at the Golden Gate of empire, but with its return 
 current, completing the circuit of the earth, it 
 swept cannibalism from the beautiful Sandwich 
 Isles, and just now has flashed its arc-lights from 
 Dewey's decks into Philippine night. Still rest- 
 less,and never resting, its civilizing energy is cloth- 
 ing Japan as a new-born giant and flashing its 
 headlights in the face of China's joss. We may 
 safely say that "to the east by the way of the west," 
 across India and Persia, the spirit of Samuel 
 Morse, or civilization's twentieth-century sounder, 
 
28 THE AUT0-CT1RIST. 
 
 will electrify staid old Jerusalem once again, with 
 the message, "Peace on earth, good will to men." 
 
 And so, while American interests are perme- 
 ating all countries, and American citizens are being 
 domiciled on all soils and in all climes, this Gov- 
 ernment must extend its protecting arms to them, 
 wherever they may be. By sective change, wher- 
 ever American political and social thought meets 
 an effete Oriental status, self-government is the con- 
 dition to which the evolution of the communal com- 
 pact is tending. And as the political differenti- 
 ation becomes more apparent, we grasp more 
 clearly the axiom based in the very constitution 
 of the politikos zoon, that where the governing 
 power discriminates in favor of one of the gov- 
 erned, and against another, the one discriminated 
 in favor of becomes corrupted, and the one discrimi- 
 nated against becomes alienated : and hence is made 
 clear the wisdom of that perfect fundamental rul( 
 of right, formulated bv Jefferson : " Equal and 
 exact justice to all, with special privileges to 
 none." It is a principle of the unwritten law of 
 the Saxon, that where a man (or nation) sows, 
 there shall he reap. And the seeds of liberty, 
 wherever sown in human souls, must be reaped by 
 the sower, and garnered in the bins of the ages, 
 for the enjoyment of the laborer in his days of 
 rest. 
 
 This ubiquity of Yankeedom will certainly call 
 for Government attention to all treaties and na- 
 
THE AUTOOirniST. 
 
 29 
 
 tionaJ agreements that will go, in the future, 
 towards adjusting contemplated static conditions 
 of policies in the Orient. For this reason, in at- 
 tempting a prediction regarding the ultimate re- 
 sults of the Zionist movement, respect must be 
 paid to the, at present, much-talked-of manifest 
 destiny of the United States in her ameboid move- 
 ments, consequent on the late Avar with Spain. In 
 u prediction of this nature, one must admit a per- 
 sistence of Saxon retention, in all premises once 
 attained ; and a very great likelihood of defensive 
 action in which there is a large seasoning of aggres- 
 sion. 
 
 As h*s been previously said, that which is true 
 of nations is proportionately true of individuals; 
 and the same rules, in proper limitations, apply to 
 the latter as to the former. If we hypothecate a 
 line of action in accordance with the geographical, 
 political and social demands of territory, we can, 
 by the process of elimination, exclude certain indi- 
 viduals as participants in that action by a slight 
 consideration of their modes of thought, their de- 
 si re < and standing among their fellows. Thus, we 
 would not, for an instant, consider it possible that 
 Sir Robert Kitchener, President McKinley or W. 
 J. Bryan would undertake the discovery of the 
 supported Alaskan mother lode of gold-bearing 
 quartz. Neither would we entertain a thought of 
 Senator Cockrell or M. Caiuhon taking the con- 
 tract to build our interoeeanic canal. Yet it would 
 
30 THE AUTO-CHRIST. 
 
 I)p within the limits of reasonable probability to 
 postulate the rapid advancement along politico- 
 mil itary paths of such a public character as Prince 
 George, now holding the reins in Crete. His near 
 relationship to Nicholas Czar and Victoria Regina, 
 and other potentates, gives grounds for such a 
 course ; and a sufficiency of the blood and spirit of 
 the heroes of Thermopylae exists in his make-up to 
 give the energy, ambition and judgment to push 
 him up the generally acknowledge ladder of fame, 
 when opportunity for ascent offers. Neither is 
 il at all likely that Don Carlos would ever advance 
 higher, should he succeed to the Spanish throne, 
 than to be the exponent of Spanish thought, within 
 the limits of Spanish territory. And so of Czar 
 Nichlas. He is believed to be conscientiously 
 committed to the betterment of Russia, withun mo- 
 narchical limits; and is only pressed to the fore, in 
 China and the East, because Sclavic thought de- 
 mands expansion to counteract supposed Saxon 
 hind-hunger and to secure unfrozen shipping fa- 
 cilities. This as a monarch. But as a religionist, 
 the frondmarks of which faith he imagines are visi- 
 ble at Jerusalem, he wishes to be crowned on the 
 spot where the original plant grew. This much by 
 exclusion. 
 
 But individuals have been possessed of an am- 
 bition to rule the world ; and why may not others 
 arise determined to create positions demanding 
 obedience and admiration coextensive with man's 
 
THE AUTO-CHRIST. 31 
 
 domicile? The more ancient times have produced 
 a Cyrus, an Alexander, a succession of Caesars and 
 others. Later days gave birth and fortune to Char- 
 lemagne and Napoleon L, and to these may be 
 added many less successful, if equally ambitious ; 
 not to speak of those whose dreams died at the 
 birth. 
 
 After having considered some other matters 
 relative to the central thought we wish to present, 
 for careful inspection, we shall group our conclu- 
 sions around one man, as a garment, and ask for- 
 him the title of The Auto-Christ. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 THE GROUPING OF NATIONS. 
 
 We have frequently known of families whose 
 members became divided on questions relating to 
 their general welfare. These divisions are more 
 frequent regarding material interests ; but social 
 conditions often offer examples of more or less se- 
 riousness. The experience of every person will 
 hear out this statement satisfactorily. On account 
 of such disagreements, two or more parties are 
 .always formed, and the members of these several 
 parties, acting in concert, will form groups whose 
 actions tend to result at variance with each other 
 group. In extending these sociological experien- 
 ces, we find two or more families, whose real or 
 supposed interests unite them in a line of action, 
 a policy if you please, traversing the like interests 
 of other families of the same neighborhood. As 
 we widen our field of observation, towns of the 
 same county, and counties of the same State, form 
 leagues against other towns and counties, for finan- 
 cial and political advancement. States of the 
 same government, likewise, frequently are grouped 
 for political and other reasons. It has not been 
 long since, in each political campaign of national 
 interest, our ears became tired of the phrases, 
 " The solid South," "A united North." And even 
 
 32 
 
THE AUTO-CHRIST. 33 
 
 to-day one hears, to our national shame, of Eastern 
 domination and Western ignorance. These expres- 
 sions and conditions frequently have their origin 
 in a jealous patriotism which can see no good com- 
 ing out of Nazareth. 
 
 In the western hemisphere, this spirit has crys- 
 tallized its hearthstone thought into a creed known 
 under the name-phrase, " The Monroe Doctrine." 
 And its antithesis exists in the colonial policy, 
 now largely controlling every government of Eu- 
 rope of any importance and standing. 
 
 The system of " log-rolling," so well under- 
 stood, and frequently practiced, by state and na- 
 tional legislatures in the United States, largely col- 
 ors diplomatic agreements, where two or more na- 
 tions have use of aid in extending their powers 
 along paths which do not interfere or lead to cross- 
 purposes. Thus we see a tendency toward a polit- 
 ical lift cropping out between France, Italy, Port- 
 ugal and Spain. And when these shall have be- 
 come sufficiently cemented by interest, as they are 
 already by racial kinship, expecting nothing from 
 English or German friendship, they will naturally 
 fall to Russia, as allies; from the fact that if the 
 latter wins a strong foothold in China, she can well 
 afford to grant favors inside English and Moham- 
 medan spheres of influence to the former, whose 
 arms are too weak to claim and maintain the same 
 without aid. Material and commercial benefits 
 vili likely play second part to territorial acquire- 
 
34: THE AUTO-CJrRIST. 
 
 ments in the great Oriental struggle now well 
 under way. Yet, territory, per se, seems to be the 
 desire of all nations, and geographical accretion 
 will be the rule ; possibly operated under the guise 
 of protectorate obligations. Even now our own 
 country has assumed responsibilities in the East 
 and West Indies which may ultimately include in 
 Asia continental lands. Political boundaries some- 
 times fade, and at other times are rudely obliter- 
 ated, by contact of arms. The former process 
 seems to be in action in Manchuria, and the latter 
 has prominent example in the dismemberment of 
 Poland, by Russia, Prussia and Austria. Also, 
 Ave may note the tendency of the four Latin na- 
 tions — Portugal, Spain, Italy and France— to 
 closer relations, as the promoter of political uni- 
 fication by the fading of national boundaries. 
 While it is not supposed possible for the United 
 States and Great Britain ever again to unite as 
 one nation, the welding force of blood, sameness 
 of end aimed at, and commercial interests, are 
 likely to bind the two peoples so strongly together 
 that their actions in peace and war will be those 
 of the most helpful friendship. Japan, the sui 
 generis, and Germany, the now ruggedly honest, 
 are surely but slowly drifting towards that port 
 where America and England have hoisted together 
 the flags of Brotherly Love and Religious Liberty. 
 Politically, we would expect, in crises of great 
 gravity and moment, a concert of action between 
 
THE AUTO-CHRIST. 35 
 
 nations whose rulers demand submission from the 
 subject to the throne, on all points affecting the 
 social and commercial status of the citizen. For 
 this reason we would not look for very firm bonds 
 of friendship between such people as the Turks 
 and citizens of the United States, or even Mex- 
 ico. Yet, as between Turkey and Russia, the glit- 
 ter of the throne would bind them closely whenever 
 the divine right of kings was questioned, or placed 
 in doubt. 
 
 Viewing nations from a religious standpoint, 
 and in the light of the old adage — 
 
 "Birds of a feather 
 Flock together,"' 
 
 We would associate Greek Catholics, Roman Cath- 
 olics and Mohammedans, for the reason that these 
 religious bodies hold the contention that the church 
 must be the exponent of religious duty, observance 
 and doctrine ; and in her dictum the layman should 
 acquiesce without question. The rule is the same 
 in all these bodies, notwithstanding the enforced 
 pretension to liberality, now practiced. Antithet- 
 ic to these stands all Protestantism, on the ground 
 of the right of private judgment. It becomes evi- 
 dent, from what has been said, that community 
 of interests, and community of religious thought, 
 will tend to form a strong bond amongst all peo- 
 ples, of whatsoever nationality, who come under 
 the rule. 
 
36 THE AUTO-CHKTST. 
 
 It should not. be thought that we have placed 
 people together because of a supposed similarity of 
 religious belief. We have gone back of all that, 
 and associated them on a more profound ethical 
 law. In so doing, we would leave them to settle 
 the question of the true church at a time when out- 
 side pressure has no bearing. It is with such peo- 
 ple, not, Which church is the right one? but, Should 
 the right church rule in all things ? An affirma- 
 tive, here, will generate a strong friendship 
 amongst very unlike people, especially when op- 
 posing propagandists threaten forceful denial. 
 The question of which is the divine church would, 
 under such circumstances, be left for a time, sup- 
 posed to be less dangerous to a tenet so deeply 
 reverenced. 
 
 We have purposely omitted consideration of 
 the Austro-TTungarian Empire in any group likely 
 to be formed. Accepting Bismarck's theory of 
 the disintegration of this people at no distant day, 
 and knowing the heterogeneous character of the 
 population, it is plain that Prussia jpill, when the 
 dissolution comes, receive the German contingent. 
 Likewise the Sclavs and Magyars will fall to Rus- 
 sia. This will give to the latter the title-deed to 
 Hungary. The downfall of Austria will be bin 
 slight compensation to the world for her part in 
 the partition of Poland. Prussia, it may be said 
 in this connection, although she has somewhat nm- 
 doned her baseness in the same shameful tragedy, 
 
THE AUTO-CHRIST. 37 
 
 by her contributions to science, literature and mor- 
 als, will have a fearful interest to pay to civiliza- 
 tion when the balance-sheet is struck from the 
 ledger of destiny. In adjusting the books of fate, 
 it looks as if the debits of Austria will be trans- 
 ferred to Russia, with full power for collection by 
 Saxondom. Poland's dismemberment must be 
 atoned for, or else the future can not sing : 
 
 " But truth shall conquer at the last ; 
 For round and round we run, 
 \nd ever the right conies uppermost, 
 And ever is justice done." 
 
 The ghosts of King Stanislaus, Count Pulaski ai d 
 General Kosciusko will walk the earth like Ham 
 let's father's, until the prophetic stanza becomes 
 a realized fact. 
 
 As to the Jews in Austria and Hungary, of 
 whom there are about one and one-half millions. 
 they, like their brethren in other nations, will 
 undoubtedly, to a large extent, join the Zionist 
 movement when time and opportunity are ripe for 
 its emplacement. 
 
CHAPTER ill. 
 
 THE COLONIAL POLICY. AS AFFECTING THE 
 EASTERN QUESTION. 
 
 We may call it destiny, or the natural evolu- 
 tion of psychical law, or providence, as you will, 
 but certain races have, as they gathered numbers 
 and mental strength, enlarged their domain of 
 action on lines parallel with the peculiarities of 
 their dominating thoughts. Thus, the expansion 
 of American influence has always been positively 
 colored with a well-defined commercial, religious 
 and moral tint. The idea of territorial expansion 
 has been always in abeyance to these, as an influ- 
 encing motive in our dealing with our neighbors 
 and trans-oceanic peoples. And while England, 
 Prance, Germany, Russia, and other Eastern com- 
 monwealths, have pursued a policy, during the 
 years past, which enlarged the realty of their re- 
 spective Governments, we have been content to 
 silently, patiently and perseveringly sow the seeds 
 of Anglo-Saxon methods in moral fields alone, and 
 blindly, yet hopefully, await the harvest. While 
 other Governments, by diplomacy and conquest, 
 have entered and claimed 1 lie tillable fields, we 
 have been but tacit tenants at will, taking our part 
 of the crops sown, in kind only. The results of 
 this policy are now in evidence, in the position 
 
THK AUTOCIIEIST. 39 
 
 which America holds as the beacon-light to all na- 
 tions, illuminating the way to better forms of gov- 
 ernment and higher social conditions. But, un- 
 wittingly, it seems, " a change has come o'er the 
 spirit of our dreams," and we find ourselves, nolens 
 volens, in possession of Indianic realty interests 
 not homogeneous to our hearthstones. Quoting 
 ex-President Cleveland, we may well say that now 
 " it is a condition, not a theory, that confronts us/' 
 This amebic projection of American materiality 
 into the older Eastern possessions is now an un- 
 known, yet all-powerful factor, which has shocked, 
 almost to paralysis, the coordinate energies of the 
 political world. Just what we shall do on the im- 
 perialistic plan remains to be seen. But, judging 
 ourselves now by ourselves in the post, we will do 
 right; and that right lies in individual freedom 
 from rule by the self-anointed ones, whether they 
 be Latin or Sclav. 
 
 The British Colonial policy, in its last analysis, 
 is an absolute ownership of territorial possessions, 
 with an outgrowth of spheres which amounts to 
 little less. On these two predications the Cobdcn 
 Club politics are engrafted, latterly known as the 
 open door policy. With American and British 
 bottoms floating friendly flags side by side on all 
 waters, Yankee protection must give way to free 
 trade, or at least to reciprocity, which is but an- 
 other name for the same thing. And so England's 
 colonial policy traverses that of France, Germany 
 
40 THE AUTO-CHRIST. 
 
 and Russia, in that it places the open door, not 
 only of commerce, before every individual citizen 
 within its scope and ruling, but likewise that of 
 individual social and religious progress; thereby 
 limiting the application of the term lese majestie 
 to actual crimes against the rulers of the common- 
 wealth in the persons of the citizens. 
 
 French Fashoda would have barred African 
 elevation, because the same militarism which 
 convicted Captain Dreyfus would have dominated 
 the upper Nile. English Fashoda is a kindly, 
 bright link in the chain which binds Africa to 
 individual responsibility and elevated manhood. 
 
 Germany, while pushing outward for national 
 selfish purposes, carries along in her methods a 
 large savor of the humanities. Indeed, the salt of 
 the social virtues lifts her methods far above those 
 of Russia and France, in that, notwithstanding 
 Emperor's William's monarchical clotures, the 
 broadness of the Teutonic mind fairly recognizes 
 the inalienable right of all men to " life, liberty 
 and the pursuit of happiness." In so far as she 
 has expressed, by action, a colonial policy, there 
 is nothing in it to prevent a coalescence, when 
 circumstances dictate, with Great Britain or the 
 United States in the larger questions which affect 
 the general good. 
 
 Russia has but one integer in her colonial 
 policy. And that is, to unite every country, over 
 which she obtains power, to her throne by a con- 
 
I'll I', AUTO-CIIKIST. '41 
 
 gelation of all rights, civil, religious and military. 
 This is why Japan prefers the genial warmth of 
 American and English friendship to the icy hug 
 of the Sclavic bear. She has felt the nipping 
 coldness of the Cossack winter in Corea and Man- 
 churia, and will have none of it in the future. Fur- 
 thermore, Russia's intent and purpose is, as indi- 
 cated by recent diplomatic overtures, to extend 
 her influence over China, and, through Mongolian 
 prejudice and methods, jeopardize British hold- 
 ings in India. The recent branch railway from 
 the Caspian Sea to Merv is a protruding arm of 
 conquest, feeling for Afghanistan and Persia, 
 which stand as a wall of defense for India, on 
 the northwest bank of the Indus. When this wall 
 crumbles, as crumble it must, between British and 
 Russian approachment, then the Lion and the Bear 
 will stand face to face, as they have never done be- 
 fore. The Saxon and Sclavic spheres will have 
 reached the orbital point of interference, and one 
 must bend or break. 
 
 Back northwest is another, perhaps two points, 
 from which Russia may approach toward India. 
 One by military forces, through the passes of the 
 Caucasus and down the Euphrates and Tigris. 'The 
 other by diplomacy, by way of Constantinople and 
 the Dardanelles. This last would assume a mari- 
 time complexion, and, in " ships of whirling 
 things," its objective point would be the land of 
 Judah's hopes and tears. 
 
4 2 THE AUTO-CIIRIST. 
 
 While Greece is too small and weak to figure 
 largely as a nation in colonization enterprises, the 
 disciples of Cadmus, individually, will likely 
 amaze the world as advocates of Russian advance- 
 ment. We know that the descendants of the old 
 Grseco-Macedonian Empire have given to the iron 
 Eoman an intellectual energy which fully grasps 
 Oriental problems. And it is the contention that 
 Prince George, now in Crete as a representative 
 of the Powers, has blood kin, distant it is true, but 
 all the more true to their traditions, who stand 
 where Cossack swords gleam, and where Gaul's 
 wasted throne offers a tempting prize. One of 
 these may yet wear the pontiff's triple crown. The 
 relationship betwen the Czar and the King of 
 Greece lends strength to this statement, and a re- 
 enforcement exists in religious brotherhood. 
 
 Spain's colonies have been extensive, but now 
 are almost nil. Commencing with the secret ces- 
 sion of Louisiana to France, under the gigantic 
 grip of the first Napoleon, in A. D. 1800, and end- 
 ing with the East and West Indies relinquishments 
 to the United States, she has experienced a century 
 of losses unparalleled in the history of nations. But 
 if we .expect an evening up of the balance-sheets of 
 time, we will not wonder at all this when we look 
 on the debit page of her ledger. Notwithstanding 
 Prescott's cowardly apologies for her inhumanities 
 in Mexico and Peru, she has blackened the name 
 of religion by making it the plea for shedding riv- 
 
THE AUTO-CHRIST. 43 
 
 era <>f blood to secure the extortion of gold. The 
 sole animus of all her acquisitions lias been her 
 greed of gold. And for the exercise of this greed, 
 she has paid in loss of colonies, loss of national re- 
 spect, humiliation, defeat, shame and disgrace. 
 Her methods of conquest have been dictated by the 
 hot blood of a southern clime, and characterized 
 by the fierce-eyed cruelty of the tiger. Quick, ner- 
 vous, rapid of action, she presented in these the 
 opposite of the slow, stately, cautious, painstaking, 
 cold conquests of Russia ; and yet the ends aimed at 
 were of like kind — national weatth, regardless of 
 human rights. 
 
 The colonial possessions of Spain in the far 
 East, having passed into the keeping of the United 
 States, will become a large and determining factor 
 in the course the latter will take on the adjustment 
 of Asiatic problems. Notwithstanding Russia's 
 seeming friendly acquiescence i-n American control 
 of the Philippines, it is evident that America's po- 
 sition of citizen consent to government will clash 
 with Russia's autocratic regime ; and, further, 
 American interests in China will not brook Czar- 
 ish methods in railway and commercial exploita- 
 tion. So our holdings in the East Indies will cer- 
 tainly bring us on to a very friendly footing with 
 Great Britain in China and India. This com- 
 ?uunity of interests, in which Japan is equally 
 concerned, will unquestionably place these three 
 Governments side by side, in opposition to Rus- 
 
44 THE AUTOCIITtlST. 
 
 so-French expansion; and, as before stated, Ger- 
 many "will be forced into the alliance, from the 
 fact that she can not live in peace with France on 
 any lines affecting French and Russian intention": 
 in Syria, Africa and China. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 THE GLIMMERINGS OF A PREDICTION. 
 
 Russia, whose canaille largely sympathize with Spain, 
 can not afford a rupture with the United States, for the reason 
 that her orbit of conquest and that of Great Britain are rapidly 
 approaching the point of interference, and any entanglement 
 of her forces would be quickly taken advantage of by the latter 
 Power, to cripple her advance in the Orient. Until Russia has 
 completed her great trans-Siberian railway from the Caspian 
 Sea to Otkhotsk, on the Pacific, she wants no war, and will 
 have none, unless it be forced on her. But when this is com- 
 pleted, and feeders constructed to Port Arthur and other points, 
 so as to facilitate the mobilization and concentration of her vast 
 Sclavonic hordes, some body politic, most likely Britain, may 
 look out for a hugof the Sclavic Bear that will not be as tend' r 
 as the moonlight caress of loving lover for his sweet-lipped girl 
 Dulcina. Afghanistan and Persia will probably then be wiped 
 off the map, and Turkey known no more forever.— Extract from 
 the author's letter to a local paper, June, 1898. 
 
 Spain, France and Italy, as shown heretofore, 
 have supposed wrongs to right. And these wrongs 
 are laid at Saxon and Teutonic doors. The Greeks, 
 who have furnished a deal of the brains for Latin 
 conquests and glory, having yet in their descend- 
 ants men of great prominence and promise, will 
 gladly lend aid to any prospect of preferment for 
 their own sons. England, Germany, Japan and 
 the United States have all the brains, political and 
 military, which they can find employment for. 
 Hence, Greece must turn to Russia for patronage. 
 '! he latter, with her immense schemes, religious 
 nnd political, needs the fire of Grajco-Latin enthu- 
 
46 THE ATJTOCHEIST. 
 
 siasm to warm her frozen Sclavs to action. Don 
 Carlos will possibly pacify Spain, either by suc- 
 ceeding to the throne, or failing entirely in his ef- 
 forts, and either event will be quieting to the Span- 
 ish people. There at this time falls a dark shadow 
 across the future of Trance which portends the 
 downfall of the republic. This Napoleonic umbra 
 is not to be mistaken or undervalued. Coming into 
 possession of a fortune of ten millions of dollars by 
 the bequest of Empress Eugenie, Prince Victor 
 will not lack for funds to elevate the political status 
 of his family to the first rank of nobility. His 
 brother Louis, already a colonel in the Russian 
 army, and standing very near to the Czar, has 
 the military genius and prestige to avail himself 
 of Sclavic friendship, and back his skill in arms 
 with his brother's money for the good of the pater- 
 nal name. It is true that Prince Victor resigned 
 his claim to the French throne in favor of his 
 brother Louis ; but this action could easily be recon- 
 sidered, if it should be concluded in their councils 
 that a wider field opened for the latter. With the 
 passing of Persia, Afghanistan and Turkey, Syria, 
 and in fact all Asia Minor, would needs ha\^e a mil- 
 itary head, and who would stand a better chance 
 for this high and honorable position than Prince 
 Louis Napoleon, now soon to be made a general in 
 the Czar's army? Roumania and Bulgaria will 
 easily, in the grinding, splintering process, fall 
 under flic same hand. Placed in authority here 
 
THE AUTO-CHRIST. 47 
 
 and in this manner, Lonis Napoleon's opportunity 
 to anoint himself a leader of men rivaling Napo- 
 leon I., will be obviously great, and not to be dis- 
 regarded. With his Greek blood, Roman endur- 
 ance and Russian backing, circumstances seem to 
 point to him as the Auto-Christos whose fate it 
 shall be to cross swords and try the wager of bat- 
 tle with Saxondom for the possession o f *^e wealth, 
 of India as the prize. 
 
 Tn the following pages our hero and the felicity 
 of his title, Auto-Christ, The Self-Anointed, 
 will be fully recognized. 
 
CHAPTER V 
 
 SOME FACTS. FIGURES AND FANCIES RELATING 
 TO THE DESTINY OF THE NAPOLEON IDAE. 
 
 "Well, but, General," I broke in, "I mean, wi at made the 
 greatest impression upon you in your foreign tra\ els ? " 
 
 Without a second's hesitation, " Nast, the Latin races 
 are doomed," said he, impressively. 
 
 Thus unerringly had General Grant, years ago, analyzed 
 and formulated the situation so perfectly appreciated and so 
 forcibly defined by England's Premier in his grand speech. 
 
 Mokristox, N. J., June 7. TH. NAST. 
 
 — Globe Democrat, June 12, 18! 8. 
 
 Unobserved by the ordinary mind, there are 
 forces operating in the evolution and change of 
 kingdoms, countries and peoples, which the care- 
 ful student of present and past religio-political 
 conditions recognizes with anxiety and alarm. 
 Admiration for diplomatic moves is frequently 
 cooled by a knowledge of the ambitious spirit 
 which prompts the acts, and stands behind the 
 throne as the inspiration for schemes of aggrandize- 
 ment for the benefit of men not any more worthy 
 than the veriest peasant who earns his bread by the 
 sweat of his brow, at daily toil. 
 
 The above observations were prompted by a 
 knowledge of the various and varied news dis- 
 patches appearing in public prints, from time 
 to time, touching the unbalanced and unsettled 
 greater Eastern question, as it is popularly known, 
 
 48 
 
THE AUTO-CHRIST. 49 
 
 coupled with the consensus of the world's pre- 
 monitions, looking for the curtain to rise on that 
 final scene of battle and blood which seems to glare 
 in huge letters from the billboards of the latter 
 ages. At each diplomatic crossroad, destiny ap- 
 pears to have posted his gigantic display-card 
 prophetic of evil: 
 
 "And we all say, Whence is the message, 
 And what may the wonders mean ?" 
 
 It is stated that for three hundred years the 
 ambitious dream of the Czar of Russia has been to 
 receive the crown as Universal Bishop of the East- 
 ern (Greek) Church in the city of Jerusalem. To 
 prevent this, and protect her interests in India, 
 which would thereby be greatly jeopardized, Great 
 Britain has for long years persistently and firmly 
 held a shield, emblazoned with the lion rampant, 
 in front of Turkish Mohammedanism, facing the 
 Sclavic Bear. And so, whatever else oi rojjao. 
 grievances may have been thrown for the moment 
 in the foreground to dazzle, disturb and blind an 
 uninformed world, the claws of the lion on the 
 Saxon field, and the teeth of the bear ayont tbe 
 Balkan passes, have shown potently the portent of 
 the two opposing, yet occult, energies which shal! 
 forge, in superheated furnace and with mighty 
 sledgehammer, the destinies of mankind in the 
 oncoming ages. 
 
 The Saxon race stands for liberty, science, prog- 
 ress, humanity, civilization, and all that these can 
 
50 THE AUTO-CHRIST. 
 
 mean in their widest sense for human happiness. 
 The conservatism of autocracy finds its shibbo- 
 leth in that magic name which shone brightest dur- 
 ing the Augustan age, when "Rome sat on her sev- 
 en hills, and from her throne of beauty ruled the 
 world " ; viz. : Ca3sar — Russianized into Czar. To 
 this name, in its mightiest representative, the Czar 
 of Russia, the satraps of the olden regime turn 
 with wide-open eyes and bated breath, exclaiming, 
 " Save us and our titles, to rule our kind, from that 
 fire kindled from the torch of liberty on Britain's 
 soil, and blown to a great conflagration by the 
 breath of her sturdy Saxon sons and daughters 
 in the little red school-house of the Western 
 world." 
 
 As a reinforcement of the above theory, indi- 
 cating the intentions of Russia, the following from 
 the Vienna Tagblatt, not seven years since, is 
 strongly apropos : 
 
 The Czar's highest aim is to be crowned Emperor of Asia 
 on the site of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. Every step 
 toward Constantinople is a stride toward Jerusalem. It is 
 of great significance that the emperor, Alexander III., con- 
 fides much more upon the power of religious enthusiasm than 
 either of his predecessors did. He wishes to procure a more 
 official and ostentatious consecration of his religious author- 
 ity, and to have his position emphasized as the supreme pro- 
 tector of the Eastern churches and the orthodox faith, and 
 so rally all the Greek-Oriental churches and peoples around 
 the person and the office of the Czar, as the Constantino and 
 Justinian of the modern world. The bold project has been 
 long in preparation, is never lost sight of in any diplomatic 
 movement, and no sacrifice of money is thought too great to 
 secure this end. Numbers of settlements of Eastern monks. 
 
THE AUTO-CHRIST. 51 
 
 of apparently harmless and unpretending character, have 
 been and are being founded: and Russia finds the money fop 
 the purchase of the laud. — Quoted from Frank Leslie's Weekly. 
 
 That England and Russia are gradually ap- 
 proaching the point where their orbits interfere 
 is indicated in the following remark by Professor 
 Williams. He says : " Nothing can prevent 
 Afghanistan and Persia from tumbling to pieces 
 between the advancing forces of these two gigantic 
 empires." This is also clearly shown by a letter 
 from General SkobelofT to a friend in Moscow, 
 published in 1881, in the Novoe Yremya, from 
 which the following is taken : " Our statesmen 
 will see that Russia must have the Bosphorus to 
 protect and develop her manufacturing centers 
 and her commerce. Only when she has these 
 straits can she repeat with Kosciusko, 'Finis Po- 
 loniae/ A war for the Balkan peninsula without 
 a formidable demonstration against India would 
 be absurd ; for us Central Asia is only of temporary 
 importance." 
 
 We will set side by side the above from Sko- 
 beloff and this from General Upton : " Con- 
 stantly increasing, by her Eastern policy, the 
 deadly feeling of hostility which already exists in 
 Russia against her, the moment the former occu- 
 pies Constantinople, England must seize Egypt. 
 Once secure in Constantinople, the fleets of Eng- 
 land can no longer oppose the designs of Russia. 
 Converting the Black Sea into an inland lake, 
 thus insuring her communication, a railroad from 
 
f>2 THE AUTO-CHRIST. 
 
 Trebizonde across to the valley of the Euphrates 
 and thence to Damascus, will place Russia on the 
 flank of England's line of communications. Thus 
 brought face to face, it is not improbable that these 
 two great Powers may change the face of Asia on 
 the famous plain of Esdraelon." England al- 
 ready, since the above was written, has practically 
 taken possession of Egypt, and by a recent treaty 
 with Belgium secured the right of way for a rail- 
 road from the Cape of Good Hope to Cairo. Also, 
 as an advance move in the stupendous game now 
 on the world's chessboard, Great Britain has 
 placed a pawn on the Island of Mitylene, and ex- 
 changed another on a small, rocky island in the 
 Persian Gulf for a more commanding position off 
 the coast of Candia in the Mediterranean. As a 
 cc nnter-check to this masterly play, Russia is 
 pushing her great trans-Siberian railway, con- 
 necting the Caspian Sea with Vladivostok in the 
 East. And from this last point her elephantine 
 antenna; have already felt the strategic possibili- 
 ties of Port Arthur, and, con?enuently, Manchuria 
 and Corea. Notwithstanding England's coign of 
 vantage at the Pillars of " Hercules, Suez Canal 
 and other points, this Russian railway system, a 
 behemoth in its line, will keep British military 
 brains on the qui vive to forestall a coup de main 
 by Russia's arms at many points in Europe and 
 the East, all probably threatened at the same mo- 
 ment. For example, Europe may be attacked (in 
 
TTTTC AUTO-CHRIST. 53 
 
 summer) from the Gulf of Finland, Kronstadt 
 being the port of St. Petersburg.; or, from Odes- 
 sa, either by land through Austria, or, forcing the 
 Dardanelles, via the Mediterranean; Egypt by 
 the last route. India from Merv, through 
 Afghanistan, or by way of the Caucasus passes 
 down the Euphrates and Tigris ; and the far Ea°t 
 by way of the Yellow Sea, now almost completely 
 in the hug of the Bear. 
 
 And so, the issue is joined ; the Kelts and 
 Saxons, the xanthochroi dominating, on the one 
 side, and the Sclavonic hordes, spread from the 
 Gulf of Bothnia on the west to the Sea of Okhotsk 
 eastward, and from the North Cape of Asia to 
 the mountains of Altai on the south, on the other 
 side. 
 
 It is evident to the most superficial observer 
 of current events, that in Europe and Asia an 
 alignment of the Powers must take place; and 
 this without any mental reservation or equivoca- 
 tion whatever. The flood of fire and blood will, 
 nolens volens, when it comes, gather to either cur- 
 rent all organic and political power, forming two 
 mighty drifts, perhaps to be annihilated in the 
 awful shock when ambition to rule dashes them 
 against each other with a force unparalleled since 
 time began. The natural allies of Iiussia will be 
 Italy, France, Spain, Turkey, Persia, Portugal, 
 Bulgaria, China, Montenegro, and such smaller 
 principalities of Asia as are dominated by the 
 
54: THE AUTO-CHRIST. 
 
 Greek, Catholic and Mohammedan religions. The 
 fact that Russia holds Turkey in the hollow of her 
 hand, and Greece by religion and royal relation- 
 ship is fettered, and France allied by treaty, gives 
 the Czar a power which can not be questioned by 
 any or all of these. In this connection it may be 
 well to note that the Sagas ta government, in the 
 last few days preceding our war with Spain, made 
 overtures to Russia and Frarfee for aid, in the 
 event of a conflict with the United States. This 
 shows a gravitation of forces of like kind. 
 
 Strongly united by blood, commerce and com- 
 mon interest stand Great Britain, Germany, Prus- 
 sia, Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, the 
 United States of America, and perhaps others of 
 like origin ; and added to these may be mentioned 
 that strong, recently born to civilized light, non- 
 descript, yet faithful friend, Japan. Late ex- 
 pressions of kindly feeling by Germany to, and 
 canvassing of a treaty alliance by Great Britain 
 with the United States, show plainly what may 
 be expected in case the Anglo-Saxon civilization 
 should be threatened, either in Europe or America, 
 by that influence emanating from the effete debris 
 of a decaying Orientalism. Notwithstanding Em- 
 peror William's coquetry with Russia during the 
 late trouble in Crete, Germany can not afford to 
 antagonize Great Britain and America on any 
 major problem involving the settlement of the 
 greater Eastern question. The Teuton's safety, 
 
THE AUTO-CHRIST. 55 
 
 and perhaps his very existence, depends on his 
 unwavering friend-hip to his Saxon cousins. Ger- 
 many allied to France and Russia would be a mix- 
 ture of oil and water. Alsace and Lorraine will 
 never be forgotten or condoned; and Kiao-Chau 
 and Port Arthur repel each other as positive poles 
 of two equally strong magnets. No one knew 
 all this better than Bismarck. 
 
 And who shall command these mighty oppos- 
 ing forces when the decisive hour makes demand ? 
 Answering this question as to the Saxon, we will 
 say that that race which has given to the world a 
 Moses, a Joshua, a David, a Wellington, a D'lsra- 
 eli, a Gladstone, a Bismarck, a Washington, a 
 Webster, a Lincoln, a Lee, a Grant, an Albert Sid- 
 ney Johnston, a Sheridan, "a Stonewall Jackson, 
 and many others of kith and kin, will not lack for 
 warriors and statesmen in the bloody hour of its 
 need and trial. (Let no one accuse me of an eth- 
 nological blunder in the above statement. I know 
 what I have written, *and have no corrections to 
 make.) The Witenagemote at the proper time 
 will call the proper names. 
 
 As heretofore indicated, the prodromata of 
 Asiatic diplomacy prognose the early forming of 
 an Imperial Confederacy consisting probably of 
 Russia, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, Mon- 
 tenegro and China, with other Powers whose domi- 
 nating religion is Catholic, Greek or Mohammedan 
 joining later on, all traversing Saxon progress and 
 
56 THE AUTO-CHRIST. 
 
 civilization. For the commander-in-chief of this 
 coalition there stands preeminently, above all, but 
 one name since the Caesars, around which there 
 gathers the glory of a spell likely to bind a world 
 that is crude in knowledge and civilization to the 
 one idea of an aristocratic autocracy. That name 
 is Bonaparte. As long ago as 1856 the Rev. Dr. 
 Berg, of Philadelphia, seemed to have a prophetic 
 inkling of this condition of affairs, when he said: 
 '' In the permanence of the present alliance 
 (France and England) I have no faith. A 
 French alliance with Russia might render Louis 
 Napoleon, or his successor, master of Europe. 
 
 " There is another future probability 
 pointing to a Napoleon as the leader in this Asi- 
 atic arbitrament, which can only be settled by an 
 appeal to the sword. It will be very likely that 
 a pope, pliant to the demands of ambition and 
 greed, will be selected to succeed Leo, on his de- 
 mise, which will certainly be in the near future. 
 A pope can only be selected from the College of 
 Cardinals. A writer of some eminence about 
 thirty years ago pointed out a newly made priest 
 in the Catholic Church, Lucien Bonaparte, as 
 likely some day to become pope. Since that time 
 this priest has been made a cardinal. Will this 
 cardinal soon become the pope of Rome?* In 
 
 *The text is in error. I have, on verifying my state- 
 ments, learned that Cardinal Lucien Bonaparte died in 1895, 
 and was succeeded, as the head of that family, by Prince 
 
THE AUTO-CHRIST. 57 
 
 case this should transpire, who would this Bona- 
 parte pontiff most likely wish to see at the head 
 of the above indicated Imperial Confederacy \ 
 Certainly no one more than a member of his own 
 family. Just such a person we find in Prince 
 Louis Napoleon, who became a colonel of a Rus- 
 sian regiment near Syria in 1890; and at last ac- 
 counts was stationed in the Caucasus. The im- 
 portance of this point, strategically considered, can 
 not be overestimated as a " place of arms." A 
 man high in military affairs says of it: " View- 
 ing 'All Russia' as an army disposed for an an- 
 vance southward, it is thus seen to be heavily re- 
 enforced at its right, with its left and right wings 
 somewhat refused. At Odessa, upon the extreme 
 right, there is a passive demonstration always in 
 progress, since this is the chief base of operations 
 against Constantinople or Europe, while at Merv 
 there is an active demonstration on foot, which is 
 perpetually threatening Herat, or Asia. At times 
 the balance of agitation swings from east to west, 
 as at the present moment, then back again, but 
 never does Russia suffer the pendulum to come to 
 rest upon the center of the arc, nor will she, until 
 
 Napoleon Charles Gregoire Jacques Philippie Bonaparte, his 
 brother. Now a dispatch from Rome states that Prince 
 Charles Bonaparte is d ad (Feb. 12, 1899). This member of 
 the Bonaparte family was born in 1835. In 1859 he married 
 Princess Marie Christina, daughter of Prince Jaen-Nopomu- 
 cene Ruspoli. He leaves two daughters and three sisters. 
 This death will prove immaterial so long as a friend of the 
 family may succeed the present pontiff. — Authop, 
 
58 THE AUTOCIIRIST. 
 
 ready to detach it and give gravity its chance to 
 act in an unexpected manner!" And there stands 
 Prince Louis Napoleon at the center of that arc- 
 Will it be for him to give direction to the gravi- 
 tating force of this " human glacier " ? It may 
 be said, in traversion of the thought that a Bona- 
 parte would ultimately and soon hold the reins, 
 military or otherwise, on Greek and Mohammedan 
 Europe and Asia, that Islamism would demur on 
 account of the Catholic affiliation of the Napoleon- 
 idas. This will have but little weight, when we 
 remember two or three facts well known to Mo- 
 hammedans. One is, and history affirms it. that 
 Napoleon I,, in his expedition to Egypt, asked the 
 Mohammedans to recognize him as the man of des- 
 tiny, and, as was printed in the newspapers dur- 
 ing the late war with Mohammed Achmet, Moham- 
 medan seers predicted the appearance of the man 
 of destiny about thirteen hundred years after He- 
 gira (i. e., thirteen hundred lunar or Mohammedan 
 years, a period equal to 1,260 of our years, ex- 
 actly). Now, it is a fact, also, that Prince Louis 
 Napoleon was born on July 16 (the anniversary 
 of the Ilegira), 1864, which is exactly 1,260 years 
 of 360 days each after Hegira date, equal to 1,212 
 solar years. All this, to the superstitious Mo- 
 hammedan mind, would be a much better creden- 
 tial, taken in connection with their prophecies, 
 than Napoleon I. could possibly present. It is a 
 further fact that Prince Louis has latelv visited 
 
THE AUTO-CHRIST. 59 
 
 Syria and Egypt, the glory of whose kingdoms 
 he has been inspecting, just about thirteen hun- 
 dred years after Hegira. 
 
 But the jNTapoleonida* have far stronger claims 
 to recognition in the East than the foregoing: 
 even the royal right to rule, descending to its pres- 
 ent members through a long line of ancestors — 
 though it be a right existing " only in that mighty 
 spell, a name." To set forth this royal preroga- 
 tive, the following from a book published in Lon- 
 don, 1829, by Alfred Addis, B. A., is given: 
 
 Zopf, in his "Summary of Universal History," twentieth 
 edition, states that a scion of the Comnene family, who had 
 claims to the throne of Constantinople, retired into Corsica, 
 and that several members of that family bore the name of 
 Calomeros, which is perfectly identical with that of Buona- 
 parte. It may, hence, be concluded that this name has been 
 Italianized. We do not believe that this circumstance was 
 ever known to Napoleon. This is stated in Mountholon and 
 Gourgand's "Memoirs of Napoleon," Vol. III., p. 8. If this be 
 true, Napoleon might be emperor of the Romans by right of 
 birth as well as arms. 
 
 This claim to a position of sovereignty in the 
 countries of the old Graxo-Macedonian Empire, 
 shadowed forth in the above quotation, may be sub- 
 stantiated by the following statement of a recent 
 writer : 
 
 One of the ancestors of the Napoleon Bonaparte fam- 
 ily was David II., emperor of Trebizoude, who was rightful 
 heir to the throne of Constantinople, but was put to death 
 by Mohammed II. His only son, George Nicephor Comnene, 
 fled to Mania in Peloponnesus, in 1476, and was made 
 Protogeros over the community settled there. This 
 official dignity was held by ten members of the Comnene 
 
GO THE AUTO-CHRIST. 
 
 family, in succession, till 1675, when Constantine Comnene, 
 the tenth Protogeros, was induced, by fear of being subju- 
 gated by the Turks, to emigrate from Mania to Italy with 
 three thousand of his fellow-countrymen. Arriving in Genoa, 
 Jan. 1, 1676, he obtained from the Genoese Senate a grant of 
 some tracts of land in Corsica, which were thenceforth colo- 
 nized by him and his descendants. One of his sons, Calome- 
 ros Comnene, subsequently settled in Florence, in Tuscany, 
 and as the Greek word Calomeros (Kalos Meros) signifies buunu 
 parte in Italian, he therefore adopted the name of Buonaparte. 
 Jn 1719 Antonio Buonaparte, a member cf this Buonaparte 
 branch of the Comnene family, emigrated from Tuscany to 
 Corsica ; and Napoleon Buonaparte, who was born at Ajaccio, 
 in Corsica, on Aug. 15, 1769, was his grandson. Corsica was 
 ceded to Prance by the Genoese in 1768. The descent of the 
 Comnene from David XL, last emperor of Trebizonde, was 
 attested by letters patent of Louis XVI., issued Sept. 1, 1783. 
 This account of Napoleon's family is given in the " Memoirs of 
 the Duchess de Abrantes," published in Paris in 1835. 
 
 It is true that it is claimed that " the attempt 
 which has been made to trace the descent of the 
 Bonaparte family from a branch of the Comnene, 
 settled in Corsica, is not supported by valid evi- 
 dence." But sufficient color of title stands out 
 for suit ; if not in law, still by the sword, should 
 ambition, backed by power, press the trial. It 
 would only require such a supporter as Napoleon 
 I. had in Louis Nicholas Davout, to confer all the 
 " logical strength, added to formal correctness," 
 necessary to make the claim valid. Indeed, en 
 passant, and in connection, the name Davout bris- 
 tles with suggestions. Take the name Davoud 
 Pasha, Catholic Armenian, Turkish Minister, etc. 
 We may ask, Are Davout and Davoud only other 
 forms of David ? The phonetic similarity is 
 
THE AUTO~CHRIST. 63 
 
 great, whatever the philologic differentiation mav 
 be. Then with Davout we have the names I .< mi is 
 Nicholas, both prominent in Eastern religion ami 
 kingship; even though Napoleon's favoritism for 
 Davout may not have been based on kinship of 
 blood from David of Trebizonde. The name Louis 
 gave eighteen kings to France, besides Clovis (an- 
 other and older form of Louis) ; three emperors 
 to Rome, the last of whom ended the Carlovingian 
 dynasty ; besides the German Ludwigs and others 
 of note. (Davout was born in the old province 
 of Burgundy.) Nicolas (Nicholas) furnished 
 five Roman pontiffs, the first of whom was conse- 
 ciated in Saint Peter's Church in the presence of 
 l.udwig II., Emperor of Germany. The Czars 
 Nicholas are well known. So much for a play 
 upon names. 
 
 But this conflict between the Saxon and the 
 Sclav will have a large element of a religious com- 
 plexion as a segregating force. Especially will 
 this power be felt and operate on the partially 
 civilized, yet very superstitious, canaille compos- 
 ing the rank and file of the armies opposing the 
 hosts of an advanced and enlightened democracy. 
 This has been adumbrated in the above remarks 
 on the connection of a member of the Napoleonida? 
 with the Hegira date. And whatever of relevancy 
 this superstitious bent of the civilized mind may 
 have, respecting the acceptance as truth of the 
 so-called Semitic folk-lore and Christian faith, we 
 
62 TILE AUTO-CIIKIST. 
 
 are inclined to give it full weight in the following 
 exegesis, as bearing on Saxon protestantism, and 
 its engagement in determining the destiny of the 
 family in question. In doing this we shall give to 
 the Book of Daniel and the Johannean Apocalypse 
 a date sufficiently modern to satisfy Doctor Kue- 
 nen. of the University of Leyden, or any other wor- 
 shiper at the shrine of Higher Criticism. Also 
 be it stated, that our fancy shall have a wide field 
 and free rein; and while our figures may lie, they 
 shall, because of the facts contained, photograph 
 a strong semblance of truth. 
 
 We now ask the reader's careful attention, in 
 the order presented, to Daniel ii. 31-33, and Rev- 
 elation xiii. 11-18: " Thou, O king, sawest, and 
 behold a great image. This great image, whose 
 brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and 
 the form thereof was terrible. This image's head 
 was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, 
 his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, 
 his feet part of iron and part of clay." "And I 
 beheld another beast coming up out of the earth ; 
 and he had two horns like a iamb, and he spake as 
 a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the 
 first beast before him, and causeth the earth and 
 them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, 
 whose deadly wound was healed. And he doth 
 great wonders, so that he maketh fire to come 
 down from heaven on the earth in the sight of 
 men, and deceiveth them that dwell in the earth 
 
THK AUTOCHKIST. 63 
 
 by means of these miracles which he had power 
 to do in the sight of the beast j saying to them 
 that dwell on the earth, that they should make an 
 image to the beast, which had the wound by a 
 sword and did live. And he had power to give life 
 unto the image of the beast, that the image of the 
 beast should both speak, and cause that as many 
 as would not worship the image of the beast should 
 be killed. And he causeth all, both small and 
 great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a 
 mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 
 and that no man might buy or sell, save he that 
 had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the 
 number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him 
 that hath understanding count the number of the 
 beast: for it is the number of the man; and his 
 number is Six hundred threescore and six." 
 
 Passing the supposition that Xapoleon I. was 
 the beast (the king never dies ; beast is govern- 
 ment, king) which received the deadly wound or. 
 Waterloo, and did (or will) live in a subsequent 
 member of his family, we will proceed. Inas- 
 much as Daniel's image, as stated in the reference, 
 was to convey to Nebuchadnezzar a knowledge of 
 events and political conditions which should trans- 
 pire hereafter, we will fancy, as the king beheld 
 the image standing before him, he was facing 
 northwest from Babylon ; and the right foot of the 
 image was at Rome, with the left foot at Constan- 
 tinople, somewhat advanced towards Jerusalem; 
 
G t THE AUTO-CHRIST. 
 
 and body slightly projected, as if in tlio act of 
 stepping forward. And this is in accord with the 
 chronological formation of the Latin and Greek 
 Churches. Dexter, prior, at Rome: sinister, sub- 
 sequent, at Constantinople. Viewing the image 
 in this pose, poised for an advance, we will ascer- 
 tain its name from the number in the reference — 
 G6G — " for it is the number of a man." 
 
 There is a system of numbering, both in the 
 Creek and Latin languages, known as the numer- 
 ical alphabet, each letter standing for a certain 
 number. But, taking this mystic number as a 
 guide, we will first determine the nationality of 
 the man. The Apocalypse was written in Greek. 
 And we find one nation, and one only, in all an- 
 cient or modern history whose name will bear even 
 a first glance. That one is expressed in the phrase 
 '• The Latin Kingdom," as written in Greek, thus: 
 He-8; L-50, a-1, t-300, i-10, n-50, e-8 ; B-2, a-1, 
 s-200, i-10, 1-30, e-5, i-10, a-1— 666. It should be 
 noted that the e in Latine is eta, while the e in Bas- 
 ileia is epsilon; a difference in number, in favor 
 of the former, of three (3). 
 
 As to the man. The Bonapartes, though of 
 Greek extraction, were French, and France is a 
 Latin nation. Take the official or kingly cogno- 
 men, Napoleon in the Greek dative, and we have: 
 N-50, a-1, p-80, o-70, 1-30, e-5, o-TO, n-50, t-300, 
 i-10— 666. 
 
THE AUTO-CHRIST. 05 
 
 The mark of the number of the man was to 
 be in their right hands and (or) foreheads : Na- 
 poleonti — for Napoleon. The hand — dexter — 
 and. the forehead — intellect — were to work for 
 Napoleon. 
 
 Further: This Russian Colonel Bonaparte's 
 given name is Louis — Latin, Lvdovicvs. Numer- 
 ically it stands: L-50, v-5, d-500, v-5, i-1, c-100, 
 v-5, s-0— 666. 
 
 Call it the finger of fate, accidental coinci- 
 dence or the whisperings of divine prescience, as 
 you will, counting from A. D. 532, the date of the 
 edict of Justinian, 666 years, we arrive at the 
 height of the pope's temporal power under Inno- 
 cent III., A. D. 1198. Adding another 666 
 years, and we have A. D. 1864, the date of Prince 
 Louis Napoleon's birth. Is this historical doub- 
 ling of this number of the Wonderful Numberer 
 meaningless ? or does it adumbrate the two legs 
 on which this terrible image which dominates hu- 
 manity stands ? 
 
 Just here, in order to show that nothing is set 
 down in this paper through prejudice to the Ro- 
 man Catholic, or any other religious body of peo- 
 ple, we will give a synopsis of quotations from 
 Roman Catholic writers as quoted in a treatise 
 written by Dr. Manning, Papal Archbishop of 
 London, entitled " Present Crisis of the Holy 
 See." These writers hold that the Christian faith 
 is to be destroyed, and Rome made the seat of infi- 
 
66 THE AUTO-CHRIST. 
 
 del idolatry. He further states, on the authority 
 of Malvenda, that it is the opinion of Suarez, Me- 
 lus, Viegas, Basius, and others equally eminent, 
 that Borne in the last times will pass backward to 
 her ancient idolatry, power and imperial great- 
 ness. She will cast out her pontiff, and apostatize 
 from Christianity, persecute the church, shed the 
 blood of Christians more abundantly than was 
 done in pagan days, and recover her former state 
 of abundant wealth, and perhaps eclipse her for- 
 mer grandeur under her first rulers. 
 
 But this name Napoleon, which has become a 
 synonym for all worldly success, has a strange, 
 and perhaps, as considered by some, a fanciful, 
 etymological phylum. Read Jeremiah iv. 7: 
 " The lion is coming up from his thicket, and the 
 destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way." Keep 
 this statement of the prophet in mind while re- 
 membering that the Greek napos signifies a 
 thicket, and leon is a lion — a lion from the thicket. 
 Further: The Greek nai, "truly," "verily," 
 joined to apoleon, exuresses the idea, " truly a de- 
 stroyer;" i. e.. apoleon — I destroyed; second aor- 
 ist tense of apollyma, " to destroy." Now prefix 
 this name as constructed to the Greek halos meros 
 — " the good part;" Italianized, buona parti (e) — 
 Greek dative. Again prefix to these the name of 
 Louis (Ch)vis: old German, Ohlodwig, i. e.,a. great 
 warrior ; modern German, Lud wig ; French, Louis) , 
 and we have Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, literally 
 
THE AUTO-CHRIST. 67 
 
 translated, "A great warrior; truly a destroyer of 
 the good part." Of the Gentiles ? Yes. Wholly 
 included in the Anglo-Saxon Christian civilization 
 of the nineteenth century amongst the Gentiles. 
 Placed as Prince Louis Napoleon is at present, 
 a trusted colonel in the Russian army, at the cen- 
 ter of the above-mentioned arc, he holds the coign 
 of vantage, by position and prestige of name, for as- 
 suming the military control of all allied forces 
 which may cooperate to call down Anglo-Saxon 
 domination in the East. As to the methods to ob- 
 tain this end by a union of forces, we only have 
 to take one glance at the late operations in Bul- 
 garia. There the assassination of the incorruptible 
 Stambuloff, and the so-called conversion of the 
 young Prince Boris to the Greek Church, the re- 
 sult of intrigue where force had failed, shows too 
 plainly that Russia is slowly but surely fastening 
 her giant octopodian arms firmly on every power 
 and country likely to be of service in the oncoming 
 struggle. 
 
 For the animus of the modus vivendi, we cite 
 Rev. xvi. 13, 14, to which the reader will please 
 give careful attention before proceeding: "And 
 I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of 
 the mouth of the dragon, and out of the beast, and 
 out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they 
 are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which 
 go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the 
 whole world, to gather them to the battle of that 
 
68 THE AUTO-CHRIST. 
 
 great day of God Almighty." Three frogs con- 
 stituted the ancient coat-of-arms and insignia of 
 France under Clovis ; but this device was strangely 
 (fatally ?) revived under Louis VII., in the form 
 of the fleur de Us with its three petals as his seal ; 
 a plant which springs from the marshland, the 
 home of the frog. Charles VI. decided that the 
 number of these flowers on his banner should be 
 three. The flower is borne on a peduncle having 
 two long sword-shaped leaves (army and navy?). 
 
 The above naturally directs attention to France 
 as a source from which these spirits emanate. We 
 give parentage to them as follows: 
 
 From the Beast : Traditions of a royal ancestry 
 — Autocracy. 
 
 From the Dragon : Ambition of wealth to rule 
 ■ — Plutocracy. 
 
 From the False Prophet : Superstition as to the 
 man of destiny — Idolatry. 
 
 Here we have the resulting bacteria from a 
 medieval leaven fermenting in the stagnant pool? 
 of a decaying Orientalism. 
 
 Inspired by this trinity of spirits, for the end 
 and purposes set forth in the last Scriptural ref- 
 erence, our fancied Napoleonic image, striding 
 Italy, the Adriatic Sea and European Turkey, sud- 
 denly gathering his terrible force, moved by the 
 occult energies above shown, steps its right foot 
 with mighty tread from Rome, southeast to the 
 plain of Esdraelon, and as rapidly brings the left 
 
THE AUTO-CHRIST. 69 
 
 foot from Constantinople, placing them heel to 
 heel, toes out, and awfully stands at attention. 
 Here Barak, in the forenoon of Semitic history, 
 stood to judge Israel, and at the beginning of the 
 present century iNapoleon I. stood to judge the 
 world. 
 
 Standing now at the cock-crowing hour of morn 
 of the orthodox sabbatic thousand years of the 
 world's history, in the wee sma' hours of the twen- 
 tieth century, as the morning star of the grander 
 ages rises to view, fancy wrests the prophetic wand 
 from the hand of General Upton and with it points 
 to Mt. Tabor on the northeastern bonier of Esdra- 
 elon. Stretching on either hand to the west and 
 eastward are the hosts gathered by the froglike 
 spirits; and on the mountain itself, with glass 
 poised, looking toward the Zion of Jewish song, 
 looms he of the tinsel-covered, three-cornered hat 
 —the flower of three petals; autocracy, plutoc- 
 racy, idolatry; crook, cross and crescent- — yet in- 
 fidelic and mighty commander of conservative 
 armies which hope to crash Saxon civilization from 
 the earth. But John Bull and Brother Jonathan, 
 not cousins, but brothers — Ephraim and Manas- 
 seh — both sons of Joseph — are there before him. 
 Like a monstrous saber laid flat on the ground 
 with the hilt near the mouth of the Kishon, blade 
 covering the river bordering the curve of the Car- 
 ,- mel range, and point resting on Gilboa, forming 
 helmet, gorget, cuirass, cuish and greave for the 
 
70 THE AUTO-CITRIST. 
 
 hope of humanity, stand the devoted hosts to do 
 battle for the sacred dogma that " all just powers 
 of government are derived from the consent of 
 the governed." 
 
 The morning sun of the twentieth century 
 gilds the fated plain that has, ever and anon, 
 been made drunken with the blood of bygone ages. 
 The long roll is beaten, and to the music of the 
 thunders of Krupp and the babbling of Gatling 
 the opposing forces confront each other as the 
 breath of hell taints the air which once throbbed 
 for joy at the twang of Israel's harp. The bugles 
 sound the charge, and, perhaps, high above all are 
 heard the notes of that gold trumpet with the 
 Hebrew inscription found in the Danish farmer's 
 field and now in the museum at Copenhagen. 
 Earth reels, and there comes that awful shock in 
 which nations are shivered, splintered and ground 
 to dust. And the Napoleon dynasty is crushed 
 forever. 
 
 Pale, bleeding, with many wounds, but yet 
 alive, the Saxon rises from the field of death and 
 carnage and gazes on a world redeemed. Start- 
 ing from the old site where the hairy Tishbite 
 in days of yore taunted the prophets of Baal, and 
 directed the battle of the gods on Carmel, a lone 
 courier, whose features bespeak him a brother of 
 Moses, rides southward as Sheridan rode to Win- 
 chester. On, on, passing Ramoth, Mt, Ebal, Ja 
 cob's Well, Shiloh, Gilgal, Bethel, Gibeon, Mizpeh, 
 
THE AUTO-CHBIST. 71 
 
 fifty or more miles without halt or slack, he reins 
 his exhausted steed at Salem's gate, and calls to 
 Judah's praying daughters: "'Arise! Shine! for 
 thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is 
 risen upon thee.' The crescent has gone down in 
 blood, and the Turk shall rule us no more for- 
 ever." The threnody of despair is changed to a 
 rhapsody of glory, and the air, throbbing with 
 joy through Lebanon's cedar boughs, wafts the 
 notes of a song nineteen hundred years old: 
 b Peace on earth, good will to men." It is the 
 song of Israel's handmaidens. 
 
READING FOR THE EVENING 
 SERVICE. 
 
 " Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out 
 without hands, which smote the image upon its 
 feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them 
 to pieces. Then was the iron and the clay, the 
 brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces to- 
 gether, and became like the chaff of the summer 
 threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, 
 that no place was found for them; and the stone 
 that smote the image became a great mountain, and 
 filled the whole earth" (Dan. ii. 34, 35). 
 
 POST-LUDIUM. 
 
 Hail ! Columbia. 
 Rule ! Britannia. 
 
 POST-SCRIPTUM 
 
 Sonic believe the name Saxon to be derived 
 from the Latin saxum — a rock; stone. See any 
 dictionary for words commencing with " sax." 
 If this conjectured derivation be correct, will it 
 suggest the idea that the Saxons constitute the 
 " stone that was cut out without hands, which 
 smote the image on its feet " ? Credat qui vult. 
 
THE AUTO-CHRIST. ?3 
 
 " And he shall judge among the nations, and 
 shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their 
 swords into plowshares, and their spears into prun- 
 ingdiooks; nation shall not lift up sword against 
 nation, neither shall they learn war any more'' 
 (Isa. ii. 4). 
 
ADDENDA. 
 
 THE OCEAN IS OURS. 
 This poem was written by Hon. Bellamy Storer, United- 
 States Minister to Belgium, under the inspiration of a para- 
 graph in an article published in the Paris Temps, on the de- 
 struction of the Spanish fleet off Santiago, and was sent to 
 Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, who has kindly consented to its 
 publication in Harper's Weekly. The following is a translation 
 of the paragraph in question: 
 
 " If it is true that all the Spanish fleet has been destroyed 
 except a single ship, it is a disaster almost equal to that of 
 the Grand Armada. Once more the sea has beti'ayed Spain to 
 the profit of that Anglo-Saxon race which appears decidedly, 
 under whatever flag it fights— under the stars and stripes, or 
 under the union jack — to have all the favors of that element." 
 —The Editor. 
 
 Comes the roar of the ship guns— 
 The English-speaking ship guns- 
 Telling the " Latin race," frantic and eld, 
 Telling all Russia, gigantic and young. 
 Telling the feudal boy-Kaiser romantic, 
 What the Spanish Armada by Howard was tola; 
 What the winds to the salt sea for ages have sung. 
 Telling the powers; 
 " Tne ocean is ours. 
 Together we pull, 
 Nelson and Farragut, 
 Rodney and Hull." 
 O'er the Pacific 
 
 Comes the roar of the ship guns — 
 The English-speaking ship guns- 
 Singeing the beard of the Don at Manila 
 As Drake did at Cadiz three centuries gone. 
 The Orient shakes at the thunder terrific, 
 Drake's message from Dewey: " We sank their flotilla 
 In spite of their forts! As you did, we've done! 
 '•The ocean is ours, 
 The ocean is ours. 
 Together we pull, 
 Nelson and Farragut, 
 Rodney and Hull." — Harper's Weekly. 
 
JEC 8 1899