{"1": {"fulltext": "D 359\\n.7\\n.Sfc2\\n8i:\u00c2\u00ae\\nJtjZj J* J Ji jA^.\\nJ, R. SMITH, II, D.", "height": "2900", "width": "1979", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap. Copyright No..\\nShelflsu.\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA,", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2749", "width": "1726", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO -CHRIST\\n(SELF -ANOINTED)\\nJ. R. SMITH, M. D.\\nV\\nCINCINNATI, OHIO\\nTHE STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY\\nPublishers of Christian Literature\\nV", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "TWO COPIES RECEIVED.\\nLjbrarv of r\u00c2\u00ab-\\nOff: J\u00c2\u00b0 t 0B 5\\nter of Copyright\\nv\\n49533\\nCopyrighted, 1899, by\\nJ. R. Smith, M. D.\\nSECOND COPY,", "height": "2712", "width": "1845", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "DEDICATION.\\nTo the memory of my mother, who\\ntaught me to love truth, and to my wife,\\nwho helped me to practice it, these pages\\nare dedicated by The ^Author.", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2712", "width": "1845", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nThe Auto-Christ set forth in the text has no\\nrelevancy, except by antithesis, to the Messiah\\nof Hebrew hope and Christian faith. One may be\\nthe anointed in many more senses than that of a\\nSaviour. In truth, my Christos is an anointed\\ndestroyer of the divine dogma of popular self-gov-\\nernment, as taught and practiced by Saxon Chris-\\ntendom. The thought of an enthroned community\\nwhose will, crystallized into law, should govern all\\nthe relations of citizenship, has ever been the bogy-\\nman of autocracy.\\nHowever well or illy I have placed my figures\\non the mind s cnnvas, I ask no favor or praise\\nfrom any but the citizen king. To the common\\nroan, to whom I am a brother, the little book is\\nsubmitted. From him alone I shall care for com-\\nmendation or blame. All others are as far be-\\nneath me as the subject is beneath the sovereign.\\nMt. Vernon, Mo. j. r. s.", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nI AGK\\nCHAPTER I.\\nThe Grounds of Prediction 3\\nCHAPTER II.\\nThe Grouping of Nations 32\\nCHAPTER III.\\nThe Colonial Policy, as Affecting the Eastern\\nQuestion 38\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nThe Glimmerings of a Prediction 45\\nCHAPTER V.\\nSome Facts, Figures and Fancies Relating to the\\nDestiny of the Napoleonidae 48\\nReadings for the Evening Service 72\\nPost -ludium 72\\nPost-scriptum 72\\nAppendix 74", "height": "2712", "width": "1845", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO -CHRIST.\\n(SELF-ANOINTED.)\\nCHAPTER I.\\nTHE GROUNDS OF PREDICTION.\\nThe coasts of history are strewn with the wrecks of pre-\\ndictions launched by historians and philosophers.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bryce.\\nThe man who so far forgets the skeptical color\\nof the age as to pose as a predictor of future results\\nof present scientific, political or socialistic condi-\\ntions, will find himself addressing the deaf ear.\\nWe are such a matter-of-fact people, and we are so\\nbusily engaged in the vast and diversified interests\\nwhich immediately concern our welfare, either as\\nindividuals or communities, that we have by busi-\\nness methods ingrained into our every relation of\\nsocial and political life the ancient maxim, Suf-\\nficient for the day is the evil thereof. Really wo\\nhave come to place little reliance, and less faith, on\\nall pretended statements of prescience. And yet,\\nthere are conditions constantly presenting, from\\nwhich the ordinarily intelligent person may, with", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CIIRIST.\\ngood degree of confidence, predict results with con-\\nsiderable certainty and accuracy. Thus: Knowing\\nthat both the House and Senate of our Congress\\nare of a certain political color and the President in\\naccord therewith, we may with great confidence,\\nespecially if public sentiment also agrees, predict\\na certain line of legislation. We may indeed al-\\nmost surely point out the men, who by service have\\nendeared themselves to this party, that will be\\nappointed to places of honor and trust. And,\\nknowing the temper of our President, his Cabinet\\nand the majority in Congress, we may hypothecate\\na condition of difference between our Government\\nand a foreign power, and say absolutely what will\\nbe the course pursued relating thereto. Further\\nShould that difference relate to questions of great\\ngravity, in which are involved national inter-\\nests, and perhaps the national existence of one\\nor both contestants, and knowing the mental\\nand moral force of our opponent, we could predict\\nwith tolerable certainty the settlement of the ques-\\ntion with or without war. All this can be and i-,\\nbeing done by men who make no pretension to pro-\\nphetic qualifications other than purely human.\\nIn formulating a series of events likely to come\\nto pass affecting two or more nations, strict regard\\nmust be had to national character and mental con-\\nstitution. The stolidity of the Mongolian and the\\nfire of the Latin must be carefully weighed. And\\nin predicting the settling of controversies between", "height": "2712", "width": "1845", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CHRIST. 5\\nthese two peoples, not the least factor in the prob-\\nlem would be these characteristics of the two races.\\nIn collecting data for predicting future results,\\nan intimate and varied knowledge of many things\\nis necessary. Having under consideration the\\nprobable course of a nation as a participant in the\\nadjustment of conflicting interests, such as are now\\ndisturbing Europe, we, to be correct in any meas-\\nure, must be informed as to the history of that na-\\ntion for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years.\\nWe must know of her ambitions and efforts of the\\ncharacter and direction of the same; her powers of\\nrecuperation, after defeats which come to all peo-\\nples in the course of their national existence. We\\nmust, by the light of history, watch her past deal-\\nings with her neighbors ascertain if these neigh-\\nbors were weak or strong, and in what this weak-\\nness or strength consisted. We must know of her\\nreligion of her commerce of her internal policies\\nand polity of the permanency of her prejudices,\\nhopes and peculiar trend of thought and action.\\nWe must know, in short, if she be clever, studious,\\ngreedy of territory, of wealth, of show, of power\\nif she be changeable or changeless in her loves and\\nhates if literary or -careless of knowledge if per-\\nsistent or erratic and, in fact, study her communal\\ncharacter as we would that of an individual. When\\nwe have thus analyzed her, and, likewise, her neigh-\\nbors, and have informed ourselves of all the condi-\\ntions that bear on her existence and continuance as", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "G THE AFTO-dlRTST.\\na nation, and taken into full account all the point;\\nof friction from contiguous communities, Ave nia\\nthen formulate a prediction of her future. 1j\\nlike manner may we venture regarding the destiny\\nof an individual though there be elements in this\\nlast not present with nations.\\nBy these means and others, which the nature\\nof the problem will suggest, we may point with\\nsome accuracy to the nation, or the individual,\\nmost likely to be fittest to survive, and the en-\\nvironments most likely to accommodate the sur-\\nvivor.\\nLet us apply somewhat of the foregoing to our\\naborigines. We find them, on our first acquaint-\\nance, a wily, cunning, simple folk, whose ambition-\\ngrasped no more than was necessary to the gratifi\\ncation of physical wants, and tribal continuance.\\nRight and wrong, so far as an abstract concept was\\nconcerned, were entirely unknown to them. The\\nindividual s notion of right was limited to the idea\\nof good for himself and his tribe. That broadness\\nof the good which we include in the meaning of the\\nword humane, had never taught him the first\\nelements of mercy. Hence, he had no compunc-\\ntion for the slaughtered infants, and helpless and\\nhapless aged of those who traversed his sup-\\nposed right to the game or the hunting- ground.\\nWe find him unalterably true to the traditions\\nof his ancestors, in that his enemies must be\\ndestroyed from the earth. His intellectual fac", "height": "2712", "width": "1845", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CHRIST. 7\\nulties, above perception, were almost nil. Con-\\ntact with civilization has proved that ages of\\nrestraint and instruction would have been spent\\nin vain to bring him up to the level of the\\nSaxon, at the time of the battle of Hastings.\\nAnd yet, for all this, he was a proud, kind, cruel,\\nignorant human, who seemingly had readied the\\nlimit of his possible development, in his environ-\\nments, so long ago that he had crystallized into an\\nunchangeable fixity. His low estimate of human\\nlife had limited his kind in number, and a plenti-\\nful supply of game had cut short his invention.\\nThere was no necessity for him to know more, in\\norder to live and this lack of necessity took away\\nany possibility of a foundation for intellectual ad-\\nvancement.\\nTake, now, into consideration, the love of lib-\\nerty, coached and cultivated in the Saxon by long\\nyears of oppression, during and following the feu-\\ndal ages, and it would have required no inspiration\\nto foretell which should survive a clash of interests.\\nThe one great conservative force, which has\\nkept China, an empire of over four hundred mil-\\nlions of souls, in unprogressive status, is her relig-\\nion, which includes all the laws of state, com-\\nmunity and family. This religion is expressed in\\nthe one phrase Ancestral Worship. And the very\\nterms imply the profound filial ties which form the\\nbasis of national character. Such a people will\\nnot war with others, except in a defensive way;", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "8 THE AUTO-CHRIST.\\nand one outgrowth of this defensive spirit was\\ntheir great wall, built more than two centuries be-\\nfore Christ. They, more than all others, simply\\nasked to be let alone. And it was the filial cohe-\\nsiveness of their immense bulk, as a community,\\nthat preserved them until such time as national\\nhonor, amongst other nations, in a measure, stayed\\nthe grasping hand of greed. Knowing, now, the\\ntrend of thought and action in Russia towards an\\nall-year open port, should the frozen Sclavic eye,\\nrestless in its icy lids, rest on China s harbors, one\\nmight predict that, either by diplomatic intrigue\\nor actual conquest, the track of the Muscovite\\nbear could be easily traced on eastern Pacific\\nshores. Indeed, in subsequent pages this will be\\nplainly indicated.\\nJapan has long been the hermit nation. With\\na religion based on hero worship, her character has\\nbeen developed along military lines, until, by re-\\ncent contact with advanced aggressive thought,\\nshe is assuming the port and demeanor of a little\\ngiant. Her extensive coast line and comparatively\\nlimited territory has compelled a rapprochement,\\nin late years, with dominant naval powers of the\\nhigher type; especially Great Britain, which, from\\ncommercial interests, seems to be destined as the\\nstrong friend of this newly clothed warrior.\\nKnowing the Japanese as we do, we may say with\\nsurety that Saxon enterprise will receive a potent\\nsecond from the Flowery Kingdom. And, predi-", "height": "2712", "width": "1845", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CITKIST. 9\\neating a conflict of arms between England and\\nRussia, it is not difficult to perceive an alignment\\nof these two diverse powers, in opposition to Scla-\\n.ic expansion.\\nIt has been a confusing effort to place the Ger-\\nman peoples in a light by which we might judge\\nof the political point to which their nation is steer-\\ning. Germany is preeminently a pyschological\\nnation. Her laboratory alembic, instead of her\\nclinic, forms the opinions on which she acts hence,\\nshe is ever dominated, in politics as well as religion,\\nby the dictum of the higher critics. Yet, for all\\nthis, when confronted by the stern facts of a posi-\\ntive condition, her prescriptions for national ail-\\nments are usually built up rationally, and in accord\\nwith a rugged honesty. And while the present\\nEmperor may be somewhat intoxicated on that\\nold wine labeled The Divine Right of Kings,\\nyet the German citizen, in his sober moments, will\\ncertainly exercise his native good sense, and main-\\nlain the entente cordiale with his Saxon cousin.\\nHence, as a prediction founded on a knowledge\\n)f Teutonic morals and Sclavic ambition, we may\\nsay that, for German favors, the Saxon holds the\\nwinning card.\\nRome has figured largely in the changes that\\nhave come in the evolution of earth s empires.\\nBut\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nRome! Rome! Thou art no more\\nAs thou hast been", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "10 TUB AUTO-CHRIST.\\nGoing hack into the dim distance of the past, we see\\nRome as a physical giant. Noble and admirable\\nin all things that pertain to the material, even her\\ngods were naught bnt the iron idealism of a\\nRomulus.\\nThe law of physical development has its lim-\\nits, then comes senility, with its attendant irrita-\\nbility and paralysis agitans. Snch is Rome to-day,\\nincluding all her descendants the Latin race.\\nProminently may be seen the mixture of the iron\\nand the clay in the existence of her decaying ex-\\ntremities. A people strong to great endurance,\\nyet unable to govern themselves for want of cohe-\\nrency. The hand of the autocrat alone can guide\\nthem in the accomplishment of feats for which they\\nare yet capable. That guiding hand must come\\nfrom another race than theirs. Hence, on all great\\noccasions, we must look for a leader for them,\\nnot of their blood. The present leadership of Eu-\\nrope does not contain a single prominent individ-\\nual, of the Latin race, likely to make himself felt,\\nin military or diplomatic fields, when the Czar s\\nproposition to disarm shall be reversed.\\nInasmuch as physical growth precedes and is\\naccomplished before the mental, it would be in the\\nnature of things to expect that decay of the former\\nshould take place in advance of the latter. And\\nso it is found that literature, art and philosophy\\nstill remain in the memory of the children of the\\nland of Plato, Aristotle, Bipamus, Syllis and", "height": "2712", "width": "1845", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "THE A-UTO-OHRIST. 11\\nburning Sappho while scarce a trace of the\\ngladiator in He Latine Basileia is to be found.\\nAnd, looking to atavic laws, ever and anon may be\\nexpected another Hannibal or Leonidas, capable of\\nsegregating forces for defense, conquest and domin-\\nion. And the prediction that such an one, of Hel-\\nlenistic blood, would come forth to astonish the\\nworld, would not fail of verification by more than\\none or two centuries at a time.\\nSome thoughts will now be offered regarding\\nihe Saxon, and that which may be asserted respect-\\ning the sphere of influence, which destiny seems\\nro have meted and bounded only by the far-reach-\\ning demands of the universal Christian brother-\\nhood of man; and its fundamental, the like exten-\\nsive Fatherhood of God. Wherever the Saxon\\nshoon have left their footprints on the sands of\\ntime, men have bowed in worshipful reverence,\\nor stood erect without fear of molestation, in the\\nexercise of private judgment. Men like Hume,\\nHobbes, Gibbon and Paine have scoffed, and Wes-\\nley, Wilberforce, Watson and Raikes have prayed,\\nwhile still the great throb of the Saxon heart hus\\nsynchronized with the Sermon on the Mount, with-\\nout break in rhythm or loss of a beat. Spreading\\nto the West, these sons of liberty clipped the in-\\nquisitorial wings, and quenched the torch of\\nreligious proscription. Reaching to the far East,\\nto the very land of the cradle of humanity, tliev\\nare rehabilitating the swarthv descendants of the", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "12 THE ATTTO-CHRIST.\\nSon of the Sun, with a humanitarian glory thai is\\nturning (lie frozen eye of Gog green with envy\\nOne of their number, Sergeant What s is Name,\\nlias placed his molding hand on kilns head, and\\nvhile he\\nDrilled a black man white,\\nAnd made a mummy fight,\\nHe has raised Noph and Taphenes and Thebes to a\\nplace from whence they can read the Decalogue,\\nin Gaelic characters, inscribed on Cheops. This\\nxanthochroic renovator of the ages, turning his\\nattention to the land of the unspeakable Turk, has\\nplanted the Roberts School in defiance of the cres-\\ncent, and sown the seeds of a better life amid the\\nsickening stench of a decaying religions curse.\\nStriking the Dark Continent at its extreme south-\\nern cape, he has domesticated the African calf, and\\ndrawn from its productive udder the rich food for\\nthe nourishment of millions of freemen, who, yes-\\nterday, paid for a thought of liberty with the life-\\nblood of slaves. His plans are now laid, and ready\\nfor execution, to rivet the great stones which Jere-\\nmiah placed in the claypits for the resting-place of\\nBabylon s king, to the Cape of Good Hope, ayont\\nthe Equator, with a double ribbon of steel, along\\nwhich shall speed the twentieth-century transporta-\\ntion of a continent. In ships of whirling things,\\nhe has sounded every depth and shoal of old ocean s\\nbroad expanse, and almost hung the star-spangled\\nbanner and union jack on each of earth s opposing", "height": "2696", "width": "1695", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "TI1K AUTO-CHRIST. 13\\npoles. He has caught the gleam of Bethlehem s\\nstar, and made it the woof of a royal robe for his\\nyoungest daughter, Columbia, whose electric span-\\ngles dazzle the world.\\nIt is evident that the Saxon brotherhood, with\\nthat restlessness born of genius, is widening its\\nsphere of influence more rapidly than any other\\npeople now on the earth. It is a safe prediction\\nto assert that, unless cheeked by a force equally\\npowerful as themselves,. they will, ere long, dictate\\nthe policy of China and Africa, as they now do of\\nIndia. The dominion of the Latin, as upheld by\\nSpain, is a thing of the past in the far East. That\\nsame influence will eventually Saxonize Mexico,\\nCentral and South America. Only one power,\\nnow, is strong enough to even offer a check to this\\nexpansion spirit of Briton and Yankee. That\\npower is Russia.\\nWith the awakening of that ambition which\\nthe other powers have looked upon as dormant, the\\nSclav has shown the direction of his thoughts to he\\nsouthward and eastward. Afghanistan and Persia\\nlie in his way; Turkey also blocks his road. He\\nconceives that the sphere of his influence nmst en-\\ncircle Palestine, necessarily for religious purposes,\\nand sweep dangerously near to the Saxon sphere\\nin China and India. His methods are cold, creep-\\ning, slow, like the frozen monster that he is.\\nAs to the Turk, we know that while he is active,\\never loyal to his religion, and has added quite a", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "14 THE AUTO-CIIUIST.\\nmodicum to his self-esteem in his recent Cretan\\nwar with Greece, he must have a mentor to show\\nhis kismet, and upon whom he can rely in circum-\\nstances of great stress. Under all the conditions\\nand mental methods which have been fastening on\\nhim for ages, we can not formulate for him any\\nprogress or elevation in the years to come. Hence,\\nin all matters which may arfect him, we must ex-\\npect of him that he he a hanger-on, rather than an\\nadvance host, in matters of large import to Europe\\nand Asia.\\nAs, from our point of view, there can be but\\ntwo sides to the overwhelming question which now\\npresses for solution in the Orient, we can express\\nthe supposed conditions in no better manner than\\ntc quote from our article on the Spanish War, pub-\\nlished in a local paper, last July:\\nThe Sclav is the human beaver. He constantly bmlds his\\ndam according to worn-out and ancient methods, across the\\nstream of progress, thereby forming stagnating pools of Ori-\\nental conservatism, in which humanity forever maintains a\\ndead level. Tt is the destiny of the Saxon to tear out these\\nobstructions to the current of human thought, straighten the\\nstream of civilization, beautifying its banks with flowers of\\nlove, kindness and equality, and make a pleasant voyage pos-\\nsible for the nation to rapidly reach the millennial ocean of the\\nuniversal brotherhood of man. To the eye of the thoughtless\\nthis seems as bombast and idle dreaming. But to him who,\\nstudent-like, looks beneath the surface for motives and ener-\\ngies that form nations and wipe out boundary lines, it is more\\nthan a dream. Russia is constantly pushing, by diplomatic art\\nand mercantile methods, her way across Asia to the rich\\ntreasure-troves of India. It is not best for human weal that\\nCzarism should be extended, and Saxon genius knows it.\\nWhere duty calls in the interest of his kind, the Saxon never", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "THK AUTO-CHRIST.\\n15\\nhalts or falters. Here, then, stands face to face, in warlike\\nattitude, Progress and Conservatism, personified by the Ameri-\\ncan Eagle and the British Liou as the first, and the Selavie\\nBear and the Mohammedan Crescent of the Osmanli- Vilayet\\nas the second.\\nAs a reenforcement to the theory that but two\\nsides present for the final adjudication of the\\nEastern controversy, we ask to submit the entire\\nfollowing statement by an American mining engi-\\nneer, Mr. W. E. Bratton, published in the Wash-\\nington Post:\\nAmericans do not dream of the wonderful things that\\nare going on in Russia, said Mr. W. E. Bratton, an American\\nmining engineer, to a Post reporter at the Ebbitt.\\nI have been in Siberia for a year in the interest of a\\nLondon company, and while in the Czar s dominion found out\\nenough to make me absolutely certain that the Russians con-\\ntemplate the execution of the most gigantic scheme of terri-\\ntorial absorption ever undertaken by any race on this earth.\\nThere is no limit to their ambition, and the idea of failure in\\ntheir plans s not conceivable. To begin with, the will of the\\nRussian people is absolute, and not the caprice of the Czar, as\\nmost of our countrymen are apt to think. The Czar can no\\nmore go contrai-y to public opinion in his empire than the Pres-\\nident of the United States can defy the wishes of the America-i\\npeople.\\nIn a long talk with a high Russian official, last summer,\\nhe outlined to me the national program. Among other things\\nhe said: The great belt of open country lying between the\\nUral Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, and included within\\nthe north temperate zone, is going to be thrown open for settle-\\nment. It will be a breeding-ground for millions of our race.\\nWe will rear countless numbers of men and women, and half\\nthe men will be trained for war. We will be able by that time\\nto put more soldiers in the field than all the rest of Europe put\\ntogether. When this condition arrives, what power or what\\ncombination of powers will be able to stop us America will\\nbe our only rival, but between us and the great republic across\\nthe sea there will be no clash, for she will be supreme in hex", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "16 TIFK AUTO-CHRIST.\\nquarter of the worttl, as we will be in Europe and Central\\nAsia.\\nWe are satisfied with present home conditions, but\\njust as soon as the opportune time comes, we will, without\\nbloodshed or revolution, dispense with the Czar, and have a\\nrepresentative government Look now at the condition of\\nEurope; there are really but four leading Powers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Russia,\\nEngland, Germany aud Prance France is fast disappearing\\nas a factor in the situation, for either she will go to the wall\\nthrough some crisis, like that now threatening her, or by the\\nsure process of internal decay. England will then seize upon\\nall her territorial possessions. In a quarter of a century from\\nnow, France will be of no more consequence than Spain is to-\\nday. Then Germany will be left between England and Russia,\\nand Germany, too, will be unable to stand the test of the sur-\\nvival of the fittest. I don t say these things will occur in a\\nfew years, but a century is nothing in the history of na-\\ntions.\\nNow, then, what have we left but a fight to the finish\\nbetween the Sclav and the Anglo-Saxon? After all, racial\\nantipathy is at the bottom of the strife. The Russian despises\\nthe Briton, and the hatred is returned with vengeance. In the\\nlong run we shall beat England. We will do it by the sheer\\nforce of numbers, if through no other means. England cau\\ncontinue to boast of her supremacy on the seas but it means\\ncomparatively little there, for we will shut her out of all East-\\nern ports, and by land she will no more compare with us than\\na pigmy with a giant.\\nSee what we have already done in the acquisition of\\nTurkestan, Manchuria and Mongolia. As sure as fate, China\\nnot a part, but all of it\u00e2\u0080\u0094 will, in no distant time, be an inte-\\ngral part of the great Russian Empire. There is no human\\npower that can stop us. Our Siberian Railroad is but the be-\\nginning of a system of railway lines that will penetrate every\\npart of China, and will make our hold on that country perma-\\nnent. And T can tell you still more. Russia does n t want any\\noutsiders in China, or any other part of her Asiatic dominions,\\nand when the time comes she will say to England and to Ger-\\nmany, and even to the United States, this territory is exclu-\\nsively for us we do not mean to be rude, but, gentlemen, you\\nmust get out. And get out they will, for with all the railways\\nin our possession, and with a million of soldiers, who will op-\\npose us V", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CI1U1ST. ]7\\nThis Is only a small part of what my Russian friend\\ntold me; but before I left the country 1 talked with other high-\\nclass men, and everyone confirmed his statements. My own\\njudgment is that there is nothing improbable or visionary in\\nthe program. I think that Kussia is as certain to dominate\\nAsia as we are to rule this continent. The Englishmen I met\\nabroad are certain that ultimately they have got to fight Kus-\\nsia, for the Sclav is not going to be satisfied with Korea, China,\\nPersia and the rest; he has pushed his iron highway within\\nseventy-five miles of the Indian frontier, and dreams of the\\nday when he will strip .lohn Bull of all his possessions there.\\nThis he can do just as easily as we could take Canada, for the\\ngeographical situation is almost identical.\\nThe above statement of Mr. Bratton came to\\nour knowledge after our MS. had been completed\\nand ready for the publisher. We the more cheer-\\nfully rearrange our pages for the reason given\\nabove, and for the further reason that it sustains\\nour opinion of Czar Nicholas and the Russian peo-\\nple, given in a subsequent page. This opinion the\\nreader will find expressed in the following words:\\nHe [the Czar] is believed to be conscientiously\\ncommitted to the betterment of Russia, within\\nmonarchical limits; and is only pressed to the fore,\\nin China and the East, because Sclavic thought\\ndemands expansion to counteract supposed Saxon\\nland-hunger, etc. We believe the final conflict\\nbetween Russia and Saxondom will come much ear-\\nlier in the future than Mr. Bratton supposes.\\nProbably 1920, A. D., will see the end of it,\\nThat which has been said of Turkey in a great,\\nmeasure applies to Italy, Portugal, Spain, Hun-\\ngary and Austria. It is very evident that, with\\nthese nations, Russia is looked to for a leader.", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "18 TirB AUTO-CHRIST.\\nBut there is yet a nation, from whose individ-\\nual citizens, and kindred outside blood, much may\\nbe expected, when the dogs of Avar are let loose in\\nearnest. Our estimate of the Greek is given above,\\nand to him we now refer. It will appear what\\nmay be expected from him when in our last chap-\\nter he is brought on as the fancied Auto-Christ.\\nStill another factor, in this relation, must be\\ntaken note of, more as a catalytic than a prominent\\nparticipant. Reference is he. had to those people\\nwho have been scattered and peeled for more\\nthan twenty-five hundred years; to-wit, the Jews.\\nIn estimating the influence of Judaism on civili-\\nzation in the years to come, it is necessary to take\\ninto account the tendency of what is known in mod-\\nern terminology as the Trust. The tribe, or fam-\\nily competed of individuals, in the childhood of\\nthe communal state, constitutes the trust; and its\\nethics were bounded by the simple demands for\\nprotection, sustenance and physical comfort of the\\nmembers of the community. As the evolution of\\nthe aesthetic went forward in long succeeding ages,\\nits orismologic lines were widened, so as to include\\nother sources of enjoyment and action, until we\\nfind in Judaism a homogeneous people, subservi-\\nent to a code which lightened the burdens of the\\npoor and unfortunate of its members, while it re-\\nstrained the greed of the wealthy and strong. Thus\\nJudaism became the ideal trust of all times and all\\nelimes.", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CHRIST. 19\\nThe living energy of the modus vivendi of the\\ntrust is its communal desire for the benefit of all\\nits members. And strict observance of the gov-\\nerning rules and regulations of the body gives it\\nits great power to accomplish the ends for which\\nit was formed, as against the anarchical efforts of\\nall erratic opposition. And so, when the trust\\nshall have been brought to include, in full fellow-\\nship and benefit, all members of a state or\\ngovernment, then that state or government, if\\nunder a code in accord with right reason and\\nhigh morals, will assume, naturally, a domina-\\nting position amongst equals, and even superiors\\nin numbers, if these be not so wisely coherent in\\naims and action. All this is in true accord and\\nharmony with man s mental and moral constitu-\\ntion. His constant normal disposition, except un-\\nder insane mental processes, is to congregate.\\nKnowing this natural social tendency, Aristotle\\ncalled him the politikos zoon, and such by creation\\nhe is. And so it may of a truth be said that the\\ntrust is man s normal estate. Without it he be-\\ncomes the sport of spiritual and physical environ-\\nments, and is practically placed in the loneliness\\nof a hermitage.\\nViewing Judaism in the above light, and know-\\ning that the basic principle of the Judaic trust was\\nindividual prosperity, we need not be amazed at the\\nproud splendor of David s and Solomon s reigns.\\nNeither need we wonder at the heights to which", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "20 THE AUTOC1IIUST.\\nlier prophets and priests climbed, when we call to\\nmind the policy of elevating the community by\\nraising the individual members thereof.\\nJust now we are somewhat startled by the or-\\nganization of another Judaic trust, strictly on\\nancient lines, which, knowing Jewish wealth and\\npersistence of purpose, may well cause world-wide\\nwonder and admiration. Reference is to the Zion-\\nist movement, which held its congress last year at\\nBasle, Switzerland. To place this movement in\\nits proper light, I can not do so well otherwise as\\nto quote, quite at length, from a letter by Rabbi\\nWise, published in the Daily Republic, St. Louis,\\nDec. 18, 1898. The stupendous import of the\\nmovement to the world is sufficient excuse for the\\nlength of the extract\\nAmong: the striking features of the late Zionist Congress\\nat Basle was the presence of a representative of the German\\nEmperor, and the receipt of a cordial message of good will\\nfrom the Sultan addressed to the president of the congress in\\nrespmse to the latter s felicitations. Furthermore, when the\\nproposal of the Russian Czar looking to the convening of repre-\\nsentatives of the Powers for the purpose of considering the\\npossibility of checking the universal spread of militarism was\\nhailed with joyous acclaim by the peace-loving and thoughtful\\nJews in Basle assembled, the wiser and calmer heads urged\\nthat to the formal congratulations of the congress be added an\\nexpression of the hope that the proposed international con-\\nference concern itself, in the spirit of wisdom and understand-\\ning, with the pressing Jewish question, and more especially\\nwith such solution thereof as looked to the repeopling of Zion\\nby the scions of its ancient dwellers.\\nNot long thereafter an extraordinary mass-meeting of\\nJews was held at London in advocacy of the Zionist cause, at\\nwhich Dr. Theodor Herzel thrilled his seven thousand hearers", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CUKirfT. ti 1\\nby declaring We are nearer success Lima people imagine\\nBut a few weeks have gone since that memorable night for the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Jewry of London, and within that brief time gigantic strides\\nforward have been made by our leader and his chosen follow-\\ners. To particularize, Herzel and a deputation of Zionists have\\nbeen at Constantinople, Jerusalem and Rome. Even though\\nit be true that Herzel was playing at ante-chamber diplo-\\nmacy the contemptuous term employed by his opponeuts\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nhe might well have justified his seemingly dilatory policy by\\nreplying that a colossal scheme, affecting the interests of all\\nnations in one way or another, could hardly be expected to be\\ncarried into effect in one day or in one year. To their honor\\nbe it said, the masses enrolled under the flag of Zion have been\\npatient and uncomplaining, but the Jewish anti-Zionists\\nstrange contradiction in terms have asked with wearying per-\\nsistence to be permitted to behold some practical, tangible issue.\\nas a result of the unprecedented activity of every kind within\\nthe Zionist camp. Not because of these unseemly taunts,\\nand yet, as it were, in triumphant answer to them, Herzel has\\nbeen doing great things in these weeks for the cause of which\\nhe is the accredited spokesman. November, 1S9S, will be\\nwrit large in the calendar of Zionist history.\\nThe Jewish people, the wide world over, have been ob-\\nserving the festive celebration of the Chanuckah season, and\\nabundant reason is at hand for a more joyous commemoration\\nthan has been the wont of the Jews for more than eighteen\\nhundred years. The words of Zechariah, which are annually\\nintoned as the keynote of the festival commemorative of the\\nwresting of Judea from the hands of the Syrian rulers by\\nthe Maccabean heroes in the year 165 of the pre-Christian era,\\nare about to be fulfilled, not by might or by power, but by my\\nSpirit. The Maccabean victory was wrested from the jaws of\\ndefeat by the fearless might and the unconquerable power of\\nthe Jewish warriors. Our bloodless victory is to be achieved\\nby my Spirit the Spirit of God resting upon the leaders of\\nIsr lei, the Spirit of God moving some of the great rulers of tb\u00c2\u00ab\\nearth to deal in equity and righteousness with a long-suffe.ri ig\\nand deeply wronged people.\\nOn his homeward way Herzel visited Rome. Whether\\nhe has succeeded in gaining the sympathy of the Pontiff of the\\nRoman Church can not be stated at this time. One year ago,\\nsoon after the former congress was held, the Pope was declared\\nto be unalterably opposed to Zionism, and to be prepared to", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "22 THE AUTO-CIIKIST.\\nbrmg tlie vast intineuce of his ehurcb to bear at the Sublime\\nPorte against the cause Official denial of this rumor was\\nlater made, and there is 110 reason for believing that the atti-\\ntude of the Pope is one of unfriendliness. Being the spiritual\\nhead of many European Governments and peoples, notably\\nFrance, Austria and Spain, the benevolent sanction of Leo\\nXIII. is indispensable to the realization of Zionist aims, which\\nmake for the establishment of Jews iu Palestine under the\\nsuzerainty of the Sultan and the protection of a concert of the\\nEuropean Powers.\\nWhy should such benevolent sanction, as is sought, be\\nwithheld? Rome entertains no ambition for the enlargement\\nof her possessions in Palestine other than those of markedly\\nsacred character. And if ambition there be, it must confess\\nitself checked in the presence of the Turco-German alli-\\nance despite the flattering gift of the Kaiser to his Roman\\nCatholic subjects. On the other hand, Rome and every Chris-\\ntian nation would surely welcome the advent of Jews in large\\nnumbers into the land of hallowed memory, seeing that this\\ninfiltration would bring about the gradual and peaceable with-\\ndrawal of the Mohammedan population. We do not ask that\\nthe holy places be committed to our exclusive keeping let these\\nremain, as they are now, in the hands of those who guard and\\ncherish them. Surely the Christian world requires no as-\\nsurance on our part that every spot which Christians hold in\\nreverence will be precious to us. The Jew shall not cease to\\nhonor true devotion to an ideal least of all in the land which\\nhis past has hallowed for all time.\\nNot in vain do we place our reliance upon Kaiser and\\nSultan. Help and deliverance have come to us before through\\nthe grace of stranger kings. Two historic instances recur\\nto us of Israel marvelously saved and prospered with the help\\nof reigning kings. In the year 538 of the pre-Christian era Cyrus\\ntook Babylon, and graciously permitted the Babylonian exiles\\nto return to their fatherland.\\nThe momentous results which followed from the re-\\nestablishment of the Judean Commonwealth are part of and\\nthe largest part of the world s history. A tree of two great\\nbranches flourished in time on the soil which the former\\ncaptives by the rivers of Babylon began to cultivate with all\\nthe ardor and assiduity of their nature\u00e2\u0080\u0094 two branches, the one\\nthe religion of Ezra and the latest prophets, of Hillel and the\\nrabbis; the other, the faith of Jesus, later became the Chris-", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "TUB AUTOCIIRIST. J 6\\ntiaaity of his countless followers. And all this came to oass,\\nas Dr. Max Nordau has aptly pointed out, owing to the hardi-\\nhood of ahandful of the earliest Zionists, who, availing them-\\nselves of the rights accorded them by Cyrus the noble, chose\\nto give up their peaceful and secure residence in Babylon in\\norder to live and labor in Zion, and rebuild its waste places.\\nThe second exile is soon to end. In the words of Josephine\\nLazarus, Once planted again upon native soil, taking root\\ndownward, as Isaiah has it, who can tell what upward\\nflower and fruit the immortal branch may bear\u00e2\u0080\u0094 what new\\nbirth of the spirit, the undying spirit of Israel may give to the\\nworld V\\nAnother king there was, grenter even than Cyrus, who,\\nlike him, befriended the Jews. In the course of his victorious\\nmarches Alexander visited Jerusalem in the year 332. Legends\\nin great number have been woven around this visit, picturing\\nthe manner in which this youthful prince, who had come to\\nscoff, remained to pray. Whether it be true, as rabbinic tale\\nhas it, that Alexander was so deeply impressed by the visage of\\nthe venerable high priest Jaddua and the priestly train that\\nhe was moved to bow in humility and adoration before those\\nwhom he had set out to conquer, and that he even caused sacri-\\niices to be offered up to the Most High in the Temple of Jeru-\\nsalem, we can not tell. We do know, however, that this Mace-\\ndonian ruler, far from despoiling and violating the shrine, as\\nhad been and continued to be the custom of earlier and later\\ninvading princes, openly befriended the Jews and treated them\\nwith the utmost consideration and generosity. Alas! Alex-\\nander died within a twelvemonth of his entry into Jerusalem,\\nand the benefits which doubtless would have accrued to the\\nJews wei e speedily annulled by his quarrelsome successors.\\nZionism can and will, be immeasurably furthered by the\\ngreat ones of the earth in our time. What is this Zionism Is\\nZionism a vague scheme of to-day, a dream of fantastic\\ncontent, an ideal impossible of realization, by all of which\\nnames it has been styled, derisively Zionism is nigh unto\\ntwo thousand years old, dating from the seventieth year of\\nthis era, which witnessed the fall of Judea into the power of\\nRome. Zionism is that for whnh Jews of all the world\\nhave prayed uninterruptedly ever since Titus laid ruthless\\nhand upon the Holy of holies all the Jews excepting, it is\\nbut fair to add, the comparatively small number comprising\\nthe reform party, who, within the last one hundred years, have", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "24 THK AUTO-OllKIST.\\nabandoned the national idea of Israel, and have held with Moses\\nMendelssohn that Judaism stood for nothing: more than a re-\\nligious brotherhood.\\nWhy, then, do some orthodox Jews seem to be arrayed\\nagainst Zionism, especially in England, Germany and Austria-\\nHungary? How account for such opposition, seeing that they\\ndaily pray for their reinstatement in control of Palestine\\nHow account for this paradoxical state of affairs Perhaps,\\nalter the fashion of an old Russian rabbi, who said to me at\\nthe Basle congress, with inimitable humor, I do not venture\\nto advocate Zionism from my pulpit, for if I did my hearers\\nwould make light of the whole matter, and think my advocacy\\nwas but another strained interpretation of a Biblical text, and\\nanother overpious attempt to explain away or excuse the ap-\\nparent futility of our pi ayers in behalf of Zionism. Has not\\nRabbi A A. Green, of London, spoken wisely, who pleads for\\nthe wholehearted support of the Zionist movement on the part\\nof the Jewish nation, or else the effacement of every Zionist\\nreference from the prayer-book\\nIs there not something pathetic, almost tragic, in the at-\\ntitude of those who pray for a boon for which, being within\\nreach, tbey will not even stretch forth their hands Zionism\\nmust remain a dream and a mirage, if these so decree. But\\nare not these awe-struck by the greatness of God s blessing,\\nblinded by the nearness of the Divine Presence about to lead the\\nchildren of Israel to their home Shall the great refusal in\\ntruth come to pass Not unless we will it. It can Dot be.\\nGod hath willed otherwise for his well-beloved; the homeless\\nare already on the way homeward.\\nNow, let it be supposed that we are disposed to\\nmake prediction regarding the results of this Zion-\\nist movement. We must first look at, and care-\\nfully analyze, the Jewish character, as a whole.\\nTheir cohesiveness as a people nationally. Their\\ncommercial and financial wealth. Their disposi-\\ntion and readiness to invest that wealth for the up-\\nbuilding of the Zion of their songs. Their helpful\\nefforts to their brethren in adversity. The domi-\\nnating hope of their lives, as shown in adversity", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE AUTOCHBIST. 25\\nand prosperity. The doggedness of their supreme\\nfaith in God s ultimate redemj)tion of their race\\nfrom that social and political ostracism which has\\ncurtod them. for ages. And every other of the men-\\ntal, moral, personal and national characteristics\\nwhich do now, and have for ages, made the Jew\\nsui generis, either as a person or a community,\\namongst the tribes of the earth. Then, turning\\nour attention to his environments, we would ask,\\nWhat effect would this movement have on the na-\\ntions of the earth? On the United States? On\\nGreat Britain On Russia Germany Turkey\\nAnd others Is it likely that Russia and Turkey,\\nthe two possibly the most interested, will give con-\\nsent What will Leo XIII., who spiritually rules\\nthe Catholic world, say and do in the premises\\nWould Turkey give consent with the hope of lev-\\nerage on Jewish shekels Should she consent,\\nwould the Muscovite Bear smell the game and forge\\nhis vast body over Ararat and adown the valleys of\\nthe Euphrates and Tigris And after taking all\\nthe factors into count, and giving each its full\\nvalue, we would probably be inclined to say that\\nthe movement will succeed.\\nThen, admitting this success, we might wish\\nto peer further into the future, and inquire of rele-\\nvant environments, What nation would be most\\neager to form an alliance with this whilom\\nhated and persecuted people? The sick man of\\nthe Crescent, although, since the affair of Crete, ap-", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "26 THE AUTOCIIKIST.\\narently convalescent, can not possibly stand on hia\\nfeet when Russia determines to move her frozen\\nbattalions towards more sunny climes, as is evi-\\ndently her intent. He must bow the knee to\\nSclavic demands. Would Russia, then, like the\\nconsent of Judaism to fulfil the dream of Alexan-\\nder Alexeivitch If this consent were given,\\nwould the proximity of the holy ceremony to the\\nBritish sphere cause objection on the part of the\\nSaxon Would the adherents of the Greek Catho-\\nlic and Mohammedan religions, the latter compelled\\nby Sclavic pressure, further test the strained re-\\nlations between Great Britain and Russia? Is it\\nprobable that a confederation, including Italy,\\nPrance, Portugal and others, and presided over by\\nan appointee of Russia, might attempt to forward\\nthe religious ends of the Greek pope In case this\\nrapprochement should be approached, what would\\nbe the attitude thereto of the Sir Moses Montefi-\\nores, the Baron Hirsches, the D Israelis, the Rabbi\\nWises and the Rothschilds Judah s sous of giant\\nbrain then living?\\nTo answer all these questions satisfactorily and\\nformulate predictions therefrom, one must have,\\nas on a chart, the mental and moral strength, the\\ngrooves of thought, the patriotism, fraternal love,\\npride of race, faith in the Hebrew cult and re-\\nligious bias of the men who would have to deal\\nwith the problems which such conditions present\\nfor solution.", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CHRIST.\\n27-\\nAgain: In the settlement of these questions,\\nand others, which now agitate humanity, and will\\ncontinue to do so, until they be adjusted in the in-\\nterest of every human being concerned, the United\\nStates of America must be accounted for, and\\nplaced in position relatively to her interests, and\\nthe interests of her citizens. As shown above,\\nAmerican Saxondom is pushing to the fore, in\\nevery land and among every people. That same\\nlove of liberty begotten by the Spirit of the cru-\\ncified Jew, and born in the primitive Christian\\nChurch, which took its way westward, passed out\\nbetween the pillars of Hercules, and took root and\\nflourished in the rich mulch left by the decay of\\nScandinavian mythology on Drudic soil, crossed\\nthe Atlantic, and, from the relay battery of Yan-\\nkee freedom receiving a new impulse, has already\\ncivilized and peopled the weastern continent. Ever\\nrestlessly active, it stopped not on the Pacific shore\\nat the Golden Gate of empire, but with its return\\ncurrent, completing the circuit of the earth, it\\nswept cannibalism from the beautiful Sandwich\\nIsles, and just now has flashed its arc-lights from\\nDewey s decks into Philippine night. Still rest-\\nless,and never resting, its civilizing energy is cloth-\\ning Japan as a new-born giant and flashing its\\nheadlights in the face of China s joss. We may\\nsafely say that to the east by the way of the west,\\nacross India and Persia, the spirit of Samuel\\nMorse, or civilization s twentieth-century sounder,", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "28 THE AUT0-CT1RIST.\\nwill electrify staid old Jerusalem once again, with\\nthe message, Peace on earth, good will to men.\\nAnd so, while American interests are perme-\\nating all countries, and American citizens are being\\ndomiciled on all soils and in all climes, this Gov-\\nernment must extend its protecting arms to them,\\nwherever they may be. By sective change, wher-\\never American political and social thought meets\\nan effete Oriental status, self-government is the con-\\ndition to which the evolution of the communal com-\\npact is tending. And as the political differenti-\\nation becomes more apparent, we grasp more\\nclearly the axiom based in the very constitution\\nof the politikos zoon, that where the governing\\npower discriminates in favor of one of the gov-\\nerned, and against another, the one discriminated\\nin favor of becomes corrupted, and the one discrimi-\\nnated against becomes alienated and hence is made\\nclear the wisdom of that perfect fundamental rul(\\nof right, formulated bv Jefferson Equal and\\nexact justice to all, with special privileges to\\nnone. It is a principle of the unwritten law of\\nthe Saxon, that where a man (or nation) sows,\\nthere shall he reap. And the seeds of liberty,\\nwherever sown in human souls, must be reaped by\\nthe sower, and garnered in the bins of the ages,\\nfor the enjoyment of the laborer in his days of\\nrest.\\nThis ubiquity of Yankeedom will certainly call\\nfor Government attention to all treaties and na-", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE AUTOOirniST.\\n29\\ntionaJ agreements that will go, in the future,\\ntowards adjusting contemplated static conditions\\nof policies in the Orient. For this reason, in at-\\ntempting a prediction regarding the ultimate re-\\nsults of the Zionist movement, respect must be\\npaid to the, at present, much-talked-of manifest\\ndestiny of the United States in her ameboid move-\\nments, consequent on the late Avar with Spain. In\\nu prediction of this nature, one must admit a per-\\nsistence of Saxon retention, in all premises once\\nattained and a very great likelihood of defensive\\naction in which there is a large seasoning of aggres-\\nsion.\\nAs h*s been previously said, that which is true\\nof nations is proportionately true of individuals;\\nand the same rules, in proper limitations, apply to\\nthe latter as to the former. If we hypothecate a\\nline of action in accordance with the geographical,\\npolitical and social demands of territory, we can,\\nby the process of elimination, exclude certain indi-\\nviduals as participants in that action by a slight\\nconsideration of their modes of thought, their de-\\nsi re and standing among their fellows. Thus, we\\nwould not, for an instant, consider it possible that\\nSir Robert Kitchener, President McKinley or W.\\nJ. Bryan would undertake the discovery of the\\nsupported Alaskan mother lode of gold-bearing\\nquartz. Neither would we entertain a thought of\\nSenator Cockrell or M. Caiuhon taking the con-\\ntract to build our interoeeanic canal. Yet it would", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "30 THE AUTO-CHRIST.\\nI)p within the limits of reasonable probability to\\npostulate the rapid advancement along politico-\\nmil itary paths of such a public character as Prince\\nGeorge, now holding the reins in Crete. His near\\nrelationship to Nicholas Czar and Victoria Regina,\\nand other potentates, gives grounds for such a\\ncourse and a sufficiency of the blood and spirit of\\nthe heroes of Thermopylae exists in his make-up to\\ngive the energy, ambition and judgment to push\\nhim up the generally acknowledge ladder of fame,\\nwhen opportunity for ascent offers. Neither is\\nil at all likely that Don Carlos would ever advance\\nhigher, should he succeed to the Spanish throne,\\nthan to be the exponent of Spanish thought, within\\nthe limits of Spanish territory. And so of Czar\\nNichlas. He is believed to be conscientiously\\ncommitted to the betterment of Russia, withun mo-\\nnarchical limits; and is only pressed to the fore, in\\nChina and the East, because Sclavic thought de-\\nmands expansion to counteract supposed Saxon\\nhind-hunger and to secure unfrozen shipping fa-\\ncilities. This as a monarch. But as a religionist,\\nthe frondmarks of which faith he imagines are visi-\\nble at Jerusalem, he wishes to be crowned on the\\nspot where the original plant grew. This much by\\nexclusion.\\nBut individuals have been possessed of an am-\\nbition to rule the world and why may not others\\narise determined to create positions demanding\\nobedience and admiration coextensive with man s", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CHRIST. 31\\ndomicile? The more ancient times have produced\\na Cyrus, an Alexander, a succession of Caesars and\\nothers. Later days gave birth and fortune to Char-\\nlemagne and Napoleon L, and to these may be\\nadded many less successful, if equally ambitious\\nnot to speak of those whose dreams died at the\\nbirth.\\nAfter having considered some other matters\\nrelative to the central thought we wish to present,\\nfor careful inspection, we shall group our conclu-\\nsions around one man, as a garment, and ask for-\\nhim the title of The Auto-Christ.", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER II.\\nTHE GROUPING OF NATIONS.\\nWe have frequently known of families whose\\nmembers became divided on questions relating to\\ntheir general welfare. These divisions are more\\nfrequent regarding material interests but social\\nconditions often offer examples of more or less se-\\nriousness. The experience of every person will\\nhear out this statement satisfactorily. On account\\nof such disagreements, two or more parties are\\n.always formed, and the members of these several\\nparties, acting in concert, will form groups whose\\nactions tend to result at variance with each other\\ngroup. In extending these sociological experien-\\nces, we find two or more families, whose real or\\nsupposed interests unite them in a line of action,\\na policy if you please, traversing the like interests\\nof other families of the same neighborhood. As\\nwe widen our field of observation, towns of the\\nsame county, and counties of the same State, form\\nleagues against other towns and counties, for finan-\\ncial and political advancement. States of the\\nsame government, likewise, frequently are grouped\\nfor political and other reasons. It has not been\\nlong since, in each political campaign of national\\ninterest, our ears became tired of the phrases,\\nThe solid South, A united North. And even\\n32", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CHRIST. 33\\nto-day one hears, to our national shame, of Eastern\\ndomination and Western ignorance. These expres-\\nsions and conditions frequently have their origin\\nin a jealous patriotism which can see no good com-\\ning out of Nazareth.\\nIn the western hemisphere, this spirit has crys-\\ntallized its hearthstone thought into a creed known\\nunder the name-phrase, The Monroe Doctrine.\\nAnd its antithesis exists in the colonial policy,\\nnow largely controlling every government of Eu-\\nrope of any importance and standing.\\nThe system of log-rolling, so well under-\\nstood, and frequently practiced, by state and na-\\ntional legislatures in the United States, largely col-\\nors diplomatic agreements, where two or more na-\\ntions have use of aid in extending their powers\\nalong paths which do not interfere or lead to cross-\\npurposes. Thus we see a tendency toward a polit-\\nical lift cropping out between France, Italy, Port-\\nugal and Spain. And when these shall have be-\\ncome sufficiently cemented by interest, as they are\\nalready by racial kinship, expecting nothing from\\nEnglish or German friendship, they will naturally\\nfall to Russia, as allies; from the fact that if the\\nlatter wins a strong foothold in China, she can well\\nafford to grant favors inside English and Moham-\\nmedan spheres of influence to the former, whose\\narms are too weak to claim and maintain the same\\nwithout aid. Material and commercial benefits\\nvili likely play second part to territorial acquire-", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "34: THE AUTO-CJrRIST.\\nments in the great Oriental struggle now well\\nunder way. Yet, territory, per se, seems to be the\\ndesire of all nations, and geographical accretion\\nwill be the rule possibly operated under the guise\\nof protectorate obligations. Even now our own\\ncountry has assumed responsibilities in the East\\nand West Indies which may ultimately include in\\nAsia continental lands. Political boundaries some-\\ntimes fade, and at other times are rudely obliter-\\nated, by contact of arms. The former process\\nseems to be in action in Manchuria, and the latter\\nhas prominent example in the dismemberment of\\nPoland, by Russia, Prussia and Austria. Also,\\nAve may note the tendency of the four Latin na-\\ntions Portugal, Spain, Italy and France\u00e2\u0080\u0094 to\\ncloser relations, as the promoter of political uni-\\nfication by the fading of national boundaries.\\nWhile it is not supposed possible for the United\\nStates and Great Britain ever again to unite as\\none nation, the welding force of blood, sameness\\nof end aimed at, and commercial interests, are\\nlikely to bind the two peoples so strongly together\\nthat their actions in peace and war will be those\\nof the most helpful friendship. Japan, the sui\\ngeneris, and Germany, the now ruggedly honest,\\nare surely but slowly drifting towards that port\\nwhere America and England have hoisted together\\nthe flags of Brotherly Love and Religious Liberty.\\nPolitically, we would expect, in crises of great\\ngravity and moment, a concert of action between", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CHRIST. 35\\nnations whose rulers demand submission from the\\nsubject to the throne, on all points affecting the\\nsocial and commercial status of the citizen. For\\nthis reason we would not look for very firm bonds\\nof friendship between such people as the Turks\\nand citizens of the United States, or even Mex-\\nico. Yet, as between Turkey and Russia, the glit-\\nter of the throne would bind them closely whenever\\nthe divine right of kings was questioned, or placed\\nin doubt.\\nViewing nations from a religious standpoint,\\nand in the light of the old adage\\nBirds of a feather\\nFlock together,\\nWe would associate Greek Catholics, Roman Cath-\\nolics and Mohammedans, for the reason that these\\nreligious bodies hold the contention that the church\\nmust be the exponent of religious duty, observance\\nand doctrine and in her dictum the layman should\\nacquiesce without question. The rule is the same\\nin all these bodies, notwithstanding the enforced\\npretension to liberality, now practiced. Antithet-\\nic to these stands all Protestantism, on the ground\\nof the right of private judgment. It becomes evi-\\ndent, from what has been said, that community\\nof interests, and community of religious thought,\\nwill tend to form a strong bond amongst all peo-\\nples, of whatsoever nationality, who come under\\nthe rule.", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "36 THE AUTO-CHKTST.\\nIt should not. be thought that we have placed\\npeople together because of a supposed similarity of\\nreligious belief. We have gone back of all that,\\nand associated them on a more profound ethical\\nlaw. In so doing, we would leave them to settle\\nthe question of the true church at a time when out-\\nside pressure has no bearing. It is with such peo-\\nple, not, Which church is the right one? but, Should\\nthe right church rule in all things An affirma-\\ntive, here, will generate a strong friendship\\namongst very unlike people, especially when op-\\nposing propagandists threaten forceful denial.\\nThe question of which is the divine church would,\\nunder such circumstances, be left for a time, sup-\\nposed to be less dangerous to a tenet so deeply\\nreverenced.\\nWe have purposely omitted consideration of\\nthe Austro-TTungarian Empire in any group likely\\nto be formed. Accepting Bismarck s theory of\\nthe disintegration of this people at no distant day,\\nand knowing the heterogeneous character of the\\npopulation, it is plain that Prussia jpill, when the\\ndissolution comes, receive the German contingent.\\nLikewise the Sclavs and Magyars will fall to Rus-\\nsia. This will give to the latter the title-deed to\\nHungary. The downfall of Austria will be bin\\nslight compensation to the world for her part in\\nthe partition of Poland. Prussia, it may be said\\nin this connection, although she has somewhat nm-\\ndoned her baseness in the same shameful tragedy,", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CHRIST. 37\\nby her contributions to science, literature and mor-\\nals, will have a fearful interest to pay to civiliza-\\ntion when the balance-sheet is struck from the\\nledger of destiny. In adjusting the books of fate,\\nit looks as if the debits of Austria will be trans-\\nferred to Russia, with full power for collection by\\nSaxondom. Poland s dismemberment must be\\natoned for, or else the future can not sing\\nBut truth shall conquer at the last\\nFor round and round we run,\\n\\\\nd ever the right conies uppermost,\\nAnd ever is justice done.\\nThe ghosts of King Stanislaus, Count Pulaski ai d\\nGeneral Kosciusko will walk the earth like Ham\\nlet s father s, until the prophetic stanza becomes\\na realized fact.\\nAs to the Jews in Austria and Hungary, of\\nwhom there are about one and one-half millions.\\nthey, like their brethren in other nations, will\\nundoubtedly, to a large extent, join the Zionist\\nmovement when time and opportunity are ripe for\\nits emplacement.", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER ill.\\nTHE COLONIAL POLICY. AS AFFECTING THE\\nEASTERN QUESTION.\\nWe may call it destiny, or the natural evolu-\\ntion of psychical law, or providence, as you will,\\nbut certain races have, as they gathered numbers\\nand mental strength, enlarged their domain of\\naction on lines parallel with the peculiarities of\\ntheir dominating thoughts. Thus, the expansion\\nof American influence has always been positively\\ncolored with a well-defined commercial, religious\\nand moral tint. The idea of territorial expansion\\nhas been always in abeyance to these, as an influ-\\nencing motive in our dealing with our neighbors\\nand trans-oceanic peoples. And while England,\\nPrance, Germany, Russia, and other Eastern com-\\nmonwealths, have pursued a policy, during the\\nyears past, which enlarged the realty of their re-\\nspective Governments, we have been content to\\nsilently, patiently and perseveringly sow the seeds\\nof Anglo-Saxon methods in moral fields alone, and\\nblindly, yet hopefully, await the harvest. While\\nother Governments, by diplomacy and conquest,\\nhave entered and claimed 1 lie tillable fields, we\\nhave been but tacit tenants at will, taking our part\\nof the crops sown, in kind only. The results of\\nthis policy are now in evidence, in the position", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "THK AUTOCIIEIST. 39\\nwhich America holds as the beacon-light to all na-\\ntions, illuminating the way to better forms of gov-\\nernment and higher social conditions. But, un-\\nwittingly, it seems, a change has come o er the\\nspirit of our dreams, and we find ourselves, nolens\\nvolens, in possession of Indianic realty interests\\nnot homogeneous to our hearthstones. Quoting\\nex-President Cleveland, we may well say that now\\nit is a condition, not a theory, that confronts us/\\nThis amebic projection of American materiality\\ninto the older Eastern possessions is now an un-\\nknown, yet all-powerful factor, which has shocked,\\nalmost to paralysis, the coordinate energies of the\\npolitical world. Just what we shall do on the im-\\nperialistic plan remains to be seen. But, judging\\nourselves now by ourselves in the post, we will do\\nright; and that right lies in individual freedom\\nfrom rule by the self-anointed ones, whether they\\nbe Latin or Sclav.\\nThe British Colonial policy, in its last analysis,\\nis an absolute ownership of territorial possessions,\\nwith an outgrowth of spheres which amounts to\\nlittle less. On these two predications the Cobdcn\\nClub politics are engrafted, latterly known as the\\nopen door policy. With American and British\\nbottoms floating friendly flags side by side on all\\nwaters, Yankee protection must give way to free\\ntrade, or at least to reciprocity, which is but an-\\nother name for the same thing. And so England s\\ncolonial policy traverses that of France, Germany", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "40 THE AUTO-CHRIST.\\nand Russia, in that it places the open door, not\\nonly of commerce, before every individual citizen\\nwithin its scope and ruling, but likewise that of\\nindividual social and religious progress; thereby\\nlimiting the application of the term lese majestie\\nto actual crimes against the rulers of the common-\\nwealth in the persons of the citizens.\\nFrench Fashoda would have barred African\\nelevation, because the same militarism which\\nconvicted Captain Dreyfus would have dominated\\nthe upper Nile. English Fashoda is a kindly,\\nbright link in the chain which binds Africa to\\nindividual responsibility and elevated manhood.\\nGermany, while pushing outward for national\\nselfish purposes, carries along in her methods a\\nlarge savor of the humanities. Indeed, the salt of\\nthe social virtues lifts her methods far above those\\nof Russia and France, in that, notwithstanding\\nEmperor s William s monarchical clotures, the\\nbroadness of the Teutonic mind fairly recognizes\\nthe inalienable right of all men to life, liberty\\nand the pursuit of happiness. In so far as she\\nhas expressed, by action, a colonial policy, there\\nis nothing in it to prevent a coalescence, when\\ncircumstances dictate, with Great Britain or the\\nUnited States in the larger questions which affect\\nthe general good.\\nRussia has but one integer in her colonial\\npolicy. And that is, to unite every country, over\\nwhich she obtains power, to her throne by a con-", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "I ll I AUTO-CIIKIST. 41\\ngelation of all rights, civil, religious and military.\\nThis is why Japan prefers the genial warmth of\\nAmerican and English friendship to the icy hug\\nof the Sclavic bear. She has felt the nipping\\ncoldness of the Cossack winter in Corea and Man-\\nchuria, and will have none of it in the future. Fur-\\nthermore, Russia s intent and purpose is, as indi-\\ncated by recent diplomatic overtures, to extend\\nher influence over China, and, through Mongolian\\nprejudice and methods, jeopardize British hold-\\nings in India. The recent branch railway from\\nthe Caspian Sea to Merv is a protruding arm of\\nconquest, feeling for Afghanistan and Persia,\\nwhich stand as a wall of defense for India, on\\nthe northwest bank of the Indus. When this wall\\ncrumbles, as crumble it must, between British and\\nRussian approachment, then the Lion and the Bear\\nwill stand face to face, as they have never done be-\\nfore. The Saxon and Sclavic spheres will have\\nreached the orbital point of interference, and one\\nmust bend or break.\\nBack northwest is another, perhaps two points,\\nfrom which Russia may approach toward India.\\nOne by military forces, through the passes of the\\nCaucasus and down the Euphrates and Tigris. The\\nother by diplomacy, by way of Constantinople and\\nthe Dardanelles. This last would assume a mari-\\ntime complexion, and, in ships of whirling\\nthings, its objective point would be the land of\\nJudah s hopes and tears.", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "4 2 THE AUTO-CIIRIST.\\nWhile Greece is too small and weak to figure\\nlargely as a nation in colonization enterprises, the\\ndisciples of Cadmus, individually, will likely\\namaze the world as advocates of Russian advance-\\nment. We know that the descendants of the old\\nGrseco-Macedonian Empire have given to the iron\\nEoman an intellectual energy which fully grasps\\nOriental problems. And it is the contention that\\nPrince George, now in Crete as a representative\\nof the Powers, has blood kin, distant it is true, but\\nall the more true to their traditions, who stand\\nwhere Cossack swords gleam, and where Gaul s\\nwasted throne offers a tempting prize. One of\\nthese may yet wear the pontiff s triple crown. The\\nrelationship betwen the Czar and the King of\\nGreece lends strength to this statement, and a re-\\nenforcement exists in religious brotherhood.\\nSpain s colonies have been extensive, but now\\nare almost nil. Commencing with the secret ces-\\nsion of Louisiana to France, under the gigantic\\ngrip of the first Napoleon, in A. D. 1800, and end-\\ning with the East and West Indies relinquishments\\nto the United States, she has experienced a century\\nof losses unparalleled in the history of nations. But\\nif we .expect an evening up of the balance-sheets of\\ntime, we will not wonder at all this when we look\\non the debit page of her ledger. Notwithstanding\\nPrescott s cowardly apologies for her inhumanities\\nin Mexico and Peru, she has blackened the name\\nof religion by making it the plea for shedding riv-", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CHRIST. 43\\nera f blood to secure the extortion of gold. The\\nsole animus of all her acquisitions lias been her\\ngreed of gold. And for the exercise of this greed,\\nshe has paid in loss of colonies, loss of national re-\\nspect, humiliation, defeat, shame and disgrace.\\nHer methods of conquest have been dictated by the\\nhot blood of a southern clime, and characterized\\nby the fierce-eyed cruelty of the tiger. Quick, ner-\\nvous, rapid of action, she presented in these the\\nopposite of the slow, stately, cautious, painstaking,\\ncold conquests of Russia and yet the ends aimed at\\nwere of like kind national weatth, regardless of\\nhuman rights.\\nThe colonial possessions of Spain in the far\\nEast, having passed into the keeping of the United\\nStates, will become a large and determining factor\\nin the course the latter will take on the adjustment\\nof Asiatic problems. Notwithstanding Russia s\\nseeming friendly acquiescence i-n American control\\nof the Philippines, it is evident that America s po-\\nsition of citizen consent to government will clash\\nwith Russia s autocratic regime and, further,\\nAmerican interests in China will not brook Czar-\\nish methods in railway and commercial exploita-\\ntion. So our holdings in the East Indies will cer-\\ntainly bring us on to a very friendly footing with\\nGreat Britain in China and India. This com-\\n?uunity of interests, in which Japan is equally\\nconcerned, will unquestionably place these three\\nGovernments side by side, in opposition to Rus-", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "44 THE AUTOCIITtlST.\\nso-French expansion; and, as before stated, Ger-\\nmany will be forced into the alliance, from the\\nfact that she can not live in peace with France on\\nany lines affecting French and Russian intention\\nin Syria, Africa and China.", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV.\\nTHE GLIMMERINGS OF A PREDICTION.\\nRussia, whose canaille largely sympathize with Spain,\\ncan not afford a rupture with the United States, for the reason\\nthat her orbit of conquest and that of Great Britain are rapidly\\napproaching the point of interference, and any entanglement\\nof her forces would be quickly taken advantage of by the latter\\nPower, to cripple her advance in the Orient. Until Russia has\\ncompleted her great trans-Siberian railway from the Caspian\\nSea to Otkhotsk, on the Pacific, she wants no war, and will\\nhave none, unless it be forced on her. But when this is com-\\npleted, and feeders constructed to Port Arthur and other points,\\nso as to facilitate the mobilization and concentration of her vast\\nSclavonic hordes, some body politic, most likely Britain, may\\nlook out for a hugof the Sclavic Bear that will not be as tend r\\nas the moonlight caress of loving lover for his sweet-lipped girl\\nDulcina. Afghanistan and Persia will probably then be wiped\\noff the map, and Turkey known no more forever.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Extract from\\nthe author s letter to a local paper, June, 1898.\\nSpain, France and Italy, as shown heretofore,\\nhave supposed wrongs to right. And these wrongs\\nare laid at Saxon and Teutonic doors. The Greeks,\\nwho have furnished a deal of the brains for Latin\\nconquests and glory, having yet in their descend-\\nants men of great prominence and promise, will\\ngladly lend aid to any prospect of preferment for\\ntheir own sons. England, Germany, Japan and\\nthe United States have all the brains, political and\\nmilitary, which they can find employment for.\\nHence, Greece must turn to Russia for patronage.\\nhe latter, with her immense schemes, religious\\nnnd political, needs the fire of Grajco-Latin enthu-", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "46 THE ATJTOCHEIST.\\nsiasm to warm her frozen Sclavs to action. Don\\nCarlos will possibly pacify Spain, either by suc-\\nceeding to the throne, or failing entirely in his ef-\\nforts, and either event will be quieting to the Span-\\nish people. There at this time falls a dark shadow\\nacross the future of Trance which portends the\\ndownfall of the republic. This Napoleonic umbra\\nis not to be mistaken or undervalued. Coming into\\npossession of a fortune of ten millions of dollars by\\nthe bequest of Empress Eugenie, Prince Victor\\nwill not lack for funds to elevate the political status\\nof his family to the first rank of nobility. His\\nbrother Louis, already a colonel in the Russian\\narmy, and standing very near to the Czar, has\\nthe military genius and prestige to avail himself\\nof Sclavic friendship, and back his skill in arms\\nwith his brother s money for the good of the pater-\\nnal name. It is true that Prince Victor resigned\\nhis claim to the French throne in favor of his\\nbrother Louis but this action could easily be recon-\\nsidered, if it should be concluded in their councils\\nthat a wider field opened for the latter. With the\\npassing of Persia, Afghanistan and Turkey, Syria,\\nand in fact all Asia Minor, would needs ha\\\\^e a mil-\\nitary head, and who would stand a better chance\\nfor this high and honorable position than Prince\\nLouis Napoleon, now soon to be made a general in\\nthe Czar s army? Roumania and Bulgaria will\\neasily, in the grinding, splintering process, fall\\nunder flic same hand. Placed in authority here", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CHRIST. 47\\nand in this manner, Lonis Napoleon s opportunity\\nto anoint himself a leader of men rivaling Napo-\\nleon I., will be obviously great, and not to be dis-\\nregarded. With his Greek blood, Roman endur-\\nance and Russian backing, circumstances seem to\\npoint to him as the Auto-Christos whose fate it\\nshall be to cross swords and try the wager of bat-\\ntle with Saxondom for the possession o f *^e wealth,\\nof India as the prize.\\nTn the following pages our hero and the felicity\\nof his title, Auto-Christ, The Self-Anointed,\\nwill be fully recognized.", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER V\\nSOME FACTS. FIGURES AND FANCIES RELATING\\nTO THE DESTINY OF THE NAPOLEON IDAE.\\nWell, but, General, I broke in, I mean, wi at made the\\ngreatest impression upon you in your foreign tra\\\\ els\\nWithout a second s hesitation, Nast, the Latin races\\nare doomed, said he, impressively.\\nThus unerringly had General Grant, years ago, analyzed\\nand formulated the situation so perfectly appreciated and so\\nforcibly defined by England s Premier in his grand speech.\\nMokristox, N. J., June 7. TH. NAST.\\nGlobe Democrat, June 12, 18! 8.\\nUnobserved by the ordinary mind, there are\\nforces operating in the evolution and change of\\nkingdoms, countries and peoples, which the care-\\nful student of present and past religio-political\\nconditions recognizes with anxiety and alarm.\\nAdmiration for diplomatic moves is frequently\\ncooled by a knowledge of the ambitious spirit\\nwhich prompts the acts, and stands behind the\\nthrone as the inspiration for schemes of aggrandize-\\nment for the benefit of men not any more worthy\\nthan the veriest peasant who earns his bread by the\\nsweat of his brow, at daily toil.\\nThe above observations were prompted by a\\nknowledge of the various and varied news dis-\\npatches appearing in public prints, from time\\nto time, touching the unbalanced and unsettled\\ngreater Eastern question, as it is popularly known,\\n48", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CHRIST. 49\\ncoupled with the consensus of the world s pre-\\nmonitions, looking for the curtain to rise on that\\nfinal scene of battle and blood which seems to glare\\nin huge letters from the billboards of the latter\\nages. At each diplomatic crossroad, destiny ap-\\npears to have posted his gigantic display-card\\nprophetic of evil:\\nAnd we all say, Whence is the message,\\nAnd what may the wonders mean\\nIt is stated that for three hundred years the\\nambitious dream of the Czar of Russia has been to\\nreceive the crown as Universal Bishop of the East-\\nern (Greek) Church in the city of Jerusalem. To\\nprevent this, and protect her interests in India,\\nwhich would thereby be greatly jeopardized, Great\\nBritain has for long years persistently and firmly\\nheld a shield, emblazoned with the lion rampant,\\nin front of Turkish Mohammedanism, facing the\\nSclavic Bear. And so, whatever else oi rojjao.\\ngrievances may have been thrown for the moment\\nin the foreground to dazzle, disturb and blind an\\nuninformed world, the claws of the lion on the\\nSaxon field, and the teeth of the bear ayont tbe\\nBalkan passes, have shown potently the portent of\\nthe two opposing, yet occult, energies which shal!\\nforge, in superheated furnace and with mighty\\nsledgehammer, the destinies of mankind in the\\noncoming ages.\\nThe Saxon race stands for liberty, science, prog-\\nress, humanity, civilization, and all that these can", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "50 THE AUTO-CHRIST.\\nmean in their widest sense for human happiness.\\nThe conservatism of autocracy finds its shibbo-\\nleth in that magic name which shone brightest dur-\\ning the Augustan age, when Rome sat on her sev-\\nen hills, and from her throne of beauty ruled the\\nworld viz. Ca3sar Russianized into Czar. To\\nthis name, in its mightiest representative, the Czar\\nof Russia, the satraps of the olden regime turn\\nwith wide-open eyes and bated breath, exclaiming,\\nSave us and our titles, to rule our kind, from that\\nfire kindled from the torch of liberty on Britain s\\nsoil, and blown to a great conflagration by the\\nbreath of her sturdy Saxon sons and daughters\\nin the little red school-house of the Western\\nworld.\\nAs a reinforcement of the above theory, indi-\\ncating the intentions of Russia, the following from\\nthe Vienna Tagblatt, not seven years since, is\\nstrongly apropos\\nThe Czar s highest aim is to be crowned Emperor of Asia\\non the site of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. Every step\\ntoward Constantinople is a stride toward Jerusalem. It is\\nof great significance that the emperor, Alexander III., con-\\nfides much more upon the power of religious enthusiasm than\\neither of his predecessors did. He wishes to procure a more\\nofficial and ostentatious consecration of his religious author-\\nity, and to have his position emphasized as the supreme pro-\\ntector of the Eastern churches and the orthodox faith, and\\nso rally all the Greek-Oriental churches and peoples around\\nthe person and the office of the Czar, as the Constantino and\\nJustinian of the modern world. The bold project has been\\nlong in preparation, is never lost sight of in any diplomatic\\nmovement, and no sacrifice of money is thought too great to\\nsecure this end. Numbers of settlements of Eastern monks.", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CHRIST. 51\\nof apparently harmless and unpretending character, have\\nbeen and are being founded: and Russia finds the money fop\\nthe purchase of the laud. Quoted from Frank Leslie s Weekly.\\nThat England and Russia are gradually ap-\\nproaching the point where their orbits interfere\\nis indicated in the following remark by Professor\\nWilliams. He says Nothing can prevent\\nAfghanistan and Persia from tumbling to pieces\\nbetween the advancing forces of these two gigantic\\nempires. This is also clearly shown by a letter\\nfrom General SkobelofT to a friend in Moscow,\\npublished in 1881, in the Novoe Yremya, from\\nwhich the following is taken Our statesmen\\nwill see that Russia must have the Bosphorus to\\nprotect and develop her manufacturing centers\\nand her commerce. Only when she has these\\nstraits can she repeat with Kosciusko, Finis Po-\\nloniae/ A war for the Balkan peninsula without\\na formidable demonstration against India would\\nbe absurd for us Central Asia is only of temporary\\nimportance.\\nWe will set side by side the above from Sko-\\nbeloff and this from General Upton Con-\\nstantly increasing, by her Eastern policy, the\\ndeadly feeling of hostility which already exists in\\nRussia against her, the moment the former occu-\\npies Constantinople, England must seize Egypt.\\nOnce secure in Constantinople, the fleets of Eng-\\nland can no longer oppose the designs of Russia.\\nConverting the Black Sea into an inland lake,\\nthus insuring her communication, a railroad from", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "f 2 THE AUTO-CHRIST.\\nTrebizonde across to the valley of the Euphrates\\nand thence to Damascus, will place Russia on the\\nflank of England s line of communications. Thus\\nbrought face to face, it is not improbable that these\\ntwo great Powers may change the face of Asia on\\nthe famous plain of Esdraelon. England al-\\nready, since the above was written, has practically\\ntaken possession of Egypt, and by a recent treaty\\nwith Belgium secured the right of way for a rail-\\nroad from the Cape of Good Hope to Cairo. Also,\\nas an advance move in the stupendous game now\\non the world s chessboard, Great Britain has\\nplaced a pawn on the Island of Mitylene, and ex-\\nchanged another on a small, rocky island in the\\nPersian Gulf for a more commanding position off\\nthe coast of Candia in the Mediterranean. As a\\ncc nnter-check to this masterly play, Russia is\\npushing her great trans-Siberian railway, con-\\nnecting the Caspian Sea with Vladivostok in the\\nEast. And from this last point her elephantine\\nantenna; have already felt the strategic possibili-\\nties of Port Arthur, and, con?enuently, Manchuria\\nand Corea. Notwithstanding England s coign of\\nvantage at the Pillars of Hercules, Suez Canal\\nand other points, this Russian railway system, a\\nbehemoth in its line, will keep British military\\nbrains on the qui vive to forestall a coup de main\\nby Russia s arms at many points in Europe and\\nthe East, all probably threatened at the same mo-\\nment. For example, Europe may be attacked (in", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "TTTTC AUTO-CHRIST. 53\\nsummer) from the Gulf of Finland, Kronstadt\\nbeing the port of St. Petersburg.; or, from Odes-\\nsa, either by land through Austria, or, forcing the\\nDardanelles, via the Mediterranean; Egypt by\\nthe last route. India from Merv, through\\nAfghanistan, or by way of the Caucasus passes\\ndown the Euphrates and Tigris and the far Ea\u00c2\u00b0t\\nby way of the Yellow Sea, now almost completely\\nin the hug of the Bear.\\nAnd so, the issue is joined the Kelts and\\nSaxons, the xanthochroi dominating, on the one\\nside, and the Sclavonic hordes, spread from the\\nGulf of Bothnia on the west to the Sea of Okhotsk\\neastward, and from the North Cape of Asia to\\nthe mountains of Altai on the south, on the other\\nside.\\nIt is evident to the most superficial observer\\nof current events, that in Europe and Asia an\\nalignment of the Powers must take place; and\\nthis without any mental reservation or equivoca-\\ntion whatever. The flood of fire and blood will,\\nnolens volens, when it comes, gather to either cur-\\nrent all organic and political power, forming two\\nmighty drifts, perhaps to be annihilated in the\\nawful shock when ambition to rule dashes them\\nagainst each other with a force unparalleled since\\ntime began. The natural allies of Iiussia will be\\nItaly, France, Spain, Turkey, Persia, Portugal,\\nBulgaria, China, Montenegro, and such smaller\\nprincipalities of Asia as are dominated by the", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "54: THE AUTO-CHRIST.\\nGreek, Catholic and Mohammedan religions. The\\nfact that Russia holds Turkey in the hollow of her\\nhand, and Greece by religion and royal relation-\\nship is fettered, and France allied by treaty, gives\\nthe Czar a power which can not be questioned by\\nany or all of these. In this connection it may be\\nwell to note that the Sagas ta government, in the\\nlast few days preceding our war with Spain, made\\novertures to Russia and Frarfee for aid, in the\\nevent of a conflict with the United States. This\\nshows a gravitation of forces of like kind.\\nStrongly united by blood, commerce and com-\\nmon interest stand Great Britain, Germany, Prus-\\nsia, Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, the\\nUnited States of America, and perhaps others of\\nlike origin and added to these may be mentioned\\nthat strong, recently born to civilized light, non-\\ndescript, yet faithful friend, Japan. Late ex-\\npressions of kindly feeling by Germany to, and\\ncanvassing of a treaty alliance by Great Britain\\nwith the United States, show plainly what may\\nbe expected in case the Anglo-Saxon civilization\\nshould be threatened, either in Europe or America,\\nby that influence emanating from the effete debris\\nof a decaying Orientalism. Notwithstanding Em-\\nperor William s coquetry with Russia during the\\nlate trouble in Crete, Germany can not afford to\\nantagonize Great Britain and America on any\\nmajor problem involving the settlement of the\\ngreater Eastern question. The Teuton s safety,", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CHRIST. 55\\nand perhaps his very existence, depends on his\\nunwavering friend-hip to his Saxon cousins. Ger-\\nmany allied to France and Russia would be a mix-\\nture of oil and water. Alsace and Lorraine will\\nnever be forgotten or condoned; and Kiao-Chau\\nand Port Arthur repel each other as positive poles\\nof two equally strong magnets. No one knew\\nall this better than Bismarck.\\nAnd who shall command these mighty oppos-\\ning forces when the decisive hour makes demand\\nAnswering this question as to the Saxon, we will\\nsay that that race which has given to the world a\\nMoses, a Joshua, a David, a Wellington, a D lsra-\\neli, a Gladstone, a Bismarck, a Washington, a\\nWebster, a Lincoln, a Lee, a Grant, an Albert Sid-\\nney Johnston, a Sheridan, a Stonewall Jackson,\\nand many others of kith and kin, will not lack for\\nwarriors and statesmen in the bloody hour of its\\nneed and trial. (Let no one accuse me of an eth-\\nnological blunder in the above statement. I know\\nwhat I have written, *and have no corrections to\\nmake.) The Witenagemote at the proper time\\nwill call the proper names.\\nAs heretofore indicated, the prodromata of\\nAsiatic diplomacy prognose the early forming of\\nan Imperial Confederacy consisting probably of\\nRussia, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, Mon-\\ntenegro and China, with other Powers whose domi-\\nnating religion is Catholic, Greek or Mohammedan\\njoining later on, all traversing Saxon progress and", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "56 THE AUTO-CHRIST.\\ncivilization. For the commander-in-chief of this\\ncoalition there stands preeminently, above all, but\\none name since the Caesars, around which there\\ngathers the glory of a spell likely to bind a world\\nthat is crude in knowledge and civilization to the\\none idea of an aristocratic autocracy. That name\\nis Bonaparte. As long ago as 1856 the Rev. Dr.\\nBerg, of Philadelphia, seemed to have a prophetic\\ninkling of this condition of affairs, when he said:\\nIn the permanence of the present alliance\\n(France and England) I have no faith. A\\nFrench alliance with Russia might render Louis\\nNapoleon, or his successor, master of Europe.\\nThere is another future probability\\npointing to a Napoleon as the leader in this Asi-\\natic arbitrament, which can only be settled by an\\nappeal to the sword. It will be very likely that\\na pope, pliant to the demands of ambition and\\ngreed, will be selected to succeed Leo, on his de-\\nmise, which will certainly be in the near future.\\nA pope can only be selected from the College of\\nCardinals. A writer of some eminence about\\nthirty years ago pointed out a newly made priest\\nin the Catholic Church, Lucien Bonaparte, as\\nlikely some day to become pope. Since that time\\nthis priest has been made a cardinal. Will this\\ncardinal soon become the pope of Rome?* In\\n*The text is in error. I have, on verifying my state-\\nments, learned that Cardinal Lucien Bonaparte died in 1895,\\nand was succeeded, as the head of that family, by Prince", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CHRIST. 57\\ncase this should transpire, who would this Bona-\\nparte pontiff most likely wish to see at the head\\nof the above indicated Imperial Confederacy\\nCertainly no one more than a member of his own\\nfamily. Just such a person we find in Prince\\nLouis Napoleon, who became a colonel of a Rus-\\nsian regiment near Syria in 1890; and at last ac-\\ncounts was stationed in the Caucasus. The im-\\nportance of this point, strategically considered, can\\nnot be overestimated as a place of arms. A\\nman high in military affairs says of it: View-\\ning All Russia as an army disposed for an an-\\nvance southward, it is thus seen to be heavily re-\\nenforced at its right, with its left and right wings\\nsomewhat refused. At Odessa, upon the extreme\\nright, there is a passive demonstration always in\\nprogress, since this is the chief base of operations\\nagainst Constantinople or Europe, while at Merv\\nthere is an active demonstration on foot, which is\\nperpetually threatening Herat, or Asia. At times\\nthe balance of agitation swings from east to west,\\nas at the present moment, then back again, but\\nnever does Russia suffer the pendulum to come to\\nrest upon the center of the arc, nor will she, until\\nNapoleon Charles Gregoire Jacques Philippie Bonaparte, his\\nbrother. Now a dispatch from Rome states that Prince\\nCharles Bonaparte is d ad (Feb. 12, 1899). This member of\\nthe Bonaparte family was born in 1835. In 1859 he married\\nPrincess Marie Christina, daughter of Prince Jaen-Nopomu-\\ncene Ruspoli. He leaves two daughters and three sisters.\\nThis death will prove immaterial so long as a friend of the\\nfamily may succeed the present pontiff. Authop,", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "58 THE AUTOCIIRIST.\\nready to detach it and give gravity its chance to\\nact in an unexpected manner! And there stands\\nPrince Louis Napoleon at the center of that arc-\\nWill it be for him to give direction to the gravi-\\ntating force of this human glacier It may\\nbe said, in traversion of the thought that a Bona-\\nparte would ultimately and soon hold the reins,\\nmilitary or otherwise, on Greek and Mohammedan\\nEurope and Asia, that Islamism would demur on\\naccount of the Catholic affiliation of the Napoleon-\\nidas. This will have but little weight, when we\\nremember two or three facts well known to Mo-\\nhammedans. One is, and history affirms it. that\\nNapoleon I,, in his expedition to Egypt, asked the\\nMohammedans to recognize him as the man of des-\\ntiny, and, as was printed in the newspapers dur-\\ning the late war with Mohammed Achmet, Moham-\\nmedan seers predicted the appearance of the man\\nof destiny about thirteen hundred years after He-\\ngira (i. e., thirteen hundred lunar or Mohammedan\\nyears, a period equal to 1,260 of our years, ex-\\nactly). Now, it is a fact, also, that Prince Louis\\nNapoleon was born on July 16 (the anniversary\\nof the Ilegira), 1864, which is exactly 1,260 years\\nof 360 days each after Hegira date, equal to 1,212\\nsolar years. All this, to the superstitious Mo-\\nhammedan mind, would be a much better creden-\\ntial, taken in connection with their prophecies,\\nthan Napoleon I. could possibly present. It is a\\nfurther fact that Prince Louis has latelv visited", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CHRIST. 59\\nSyria and Egypt, the glory of whose kingdoms\\nhe has been inspecting, just about thirteen hun-\\ndred years after Hegira.\\nBut the jNTapoleonida* have far stronger claims\\nto recognition in the East than the foregoing:\\neven the royal right to rule, descending to its pres-\\nent members through a long line of ancestors\\nthough it be a right existing only in that mighty\\nspell, a name. To set forth this royal preroga-\\ntive, the following from a book published in Lon-\\ndon, 1829, by Alfred Addis, B. A., is given:\\nZopf, in his Summary of Universal History, twentieth\\nedition, states that a scion of the Comnene family, who had\\nclaims to the throne of Constantinople, retired into Corsica,\\nand that several members of that family bore the name of\\nCalomeros, which is perfectly identical with that of Buona-\\nparte. It may, hence, be concluded that this name has been\\nItalianized. We do not believe that this circumstance was\\never known to Napoleon. This is stated in Mountholon and\\nGourgand s Memoirs of Napoleon, Vol. III., p. 8. If this be\\ntrue, Napoleon might be emperor of the Romans by right of\\nbirth as well as arms.\\nThis claim to a position of sovereignty in the\\ncountries of the old Graxo-Macedonian Empire,\\nshadowed forth in the above quotation, may be sub-\\nstantiated by the following statement of a recent\\nwriter\\nOne of the ancestors of the Napoleon Bonaparte fam-\\nily was David II., emperor of Trebizoude, who was rightful\\nheir to the throne of Constantinople, but was put to death\\nby Mohammed II. His only son, George Nicephor Comnene,\\nfled to Mania in Peloponnesus, in 1476, and was made\\nProtogeros over the community settled there. This\\nofficial dignity was held by ten members of the Comnene", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "GO THE AUTO-CHRIST.\\nfamily, in succession, till 1675, when Constantine Comnene,\\nthe tenth Protogeros, was induced, by fear of being subju-\\ngated by the Turks, to emigrate from Mania to Italy with\\nthree thousand of his fellow-countrymen. Arriving in Genoa,\\nJan. 1, 1676, he obtained from the Genoese Senate a grant of\\nsome tracts of land in Corsica, which were thenceforth colo-\\nnized by him and his descendants. One of his sons, Calome-\\nros Comnene, subsequently settled in Florence, in Tuscany,\\nand as the Greek word Calomeros (Kalos Meros) signifies buunu\\nparte in Italian, he therefore adopted the name of Buonaparte.\\nJn 1719 Antonio Buonaparte, a member cf this Buonaparte\\nbranch of the Comnene family, emigrated from Tuscany to\\nCorsica and Napoleon Buonaparte, who was born at Ajaccio,\\nin Corsica, on Aug. 15, 1769, was his grandson. Corsica was\\nceded to Prance by the Genoese in 1768. The descent of the\\nComnene from David XL, last emperor of Trebizonde, was\\nattested by letters patent of Louis XVI., issued Sept. 1, 1783.\\nThis account of Napoleon s family is given in the Memoirs of\\nthe Duchess de Abrantes, published in Paris in 1835.\\nIt is true that it is claimed that the attempt\\nwhich has been made to trace the descent of the\\nBonaparte family from a branch of the Comnene,\\nsettled in Corsica, is not supported by valid evi-\\ndence. But sufficient color of title stands out\\nfor suit if not in law, still by the sword, should\\nambition, backed by power, press the trial. It\\nwould only require such a supporter as Napoleon\\nI. had in Louis Nicholas Davout, to confer all the\\nlogical strength, added to formal correctness,\\nnecessary to make the claim valid. Indeed, en\\npassant, and in connection, the name Davout bris-\\ntles with suggestions. Take the name Davoud\\nPasha, Catholic Armenian, Turkish Minister, etc.\\nWe may ask, Are Davout and Davoud only other\\nforms of David The phonetic similarity is", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO~CHRIST. 63\\ngreat, whatever the philologic differentiation mav\\nbe. Then with Davout we have the names I mi is\\nNicholas, both prominent in Eastern religion ami\\nkingship; even though Napoleon s favoritism for\\nDavout may not have been based on kinship of\\nblood from David of Trebizonde. The name Louis\\ngave eighteen kings to France, besides Clovis (an-\\nother and older form of Louis) three emperors\\nto Rome, the last of whom ended the Carlovingian\\ndynasty besides the German Ludwigs and others\\nof note. (Davout was born in the old province\\nof Burgundy.) Nicolas (Nicholas) furnished\\nfive Roman pontiffs, the first of whom was conse-\\nciated in Saint Peter s Church in the presence of\\nl.udwig II., Emperor of Germany. The Czars\\nNicholas are well known. So much for a play\\nupon names.\\nBut this conflict between the Saxon and the\\nSclav will have a large element of a religious com-\\nplexion as a segregating force. Especially will\\nthis power be felt and operate on the partially\\ncivilized, yet very superstitious, canaille compos-\\ning the rank and file of the armies opposing the\\nhosts of an advanced and enlightened democracy.\\nThis has been adumbrated in the above remarks\\non the connection of a member of the Napoleonida?\\nwith the Hegira date. And whatever of relevancy\\nthis superstitious bent of the civilized mind may\\nhave, respecting the acceptance as truth of the\\nso-called Semitic folk-lore and Christian faith, we", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "62 TILE AUTO-CIIKIST.\\nare inclined to give it full weight in the following\\nexegesis, as bearing on Saxon protestantism, and\\nits engagement in determining the destiny of the\\nfamily in question. In doing this we shall give to\\nthe Book of Daniel and the Johannean Apocalypse\\na date sufficiently modern to satisfy Doctor Kue-\\nnen. of the University of Leyden, or any other wor-\\nshiper at the shrine of Higher Criticism. Also\\nbe it stated, that our fancy shall have a wide field\\nand free rein; and while our figures may lie, they\\nshall, because of the facts contained, photograph\\na strong semblance of truth.\\nWe now ask the reader s careful attention, in\\nthe order presented, to Daniel ii. 31-33, and Rev-\\nelation xiii. 11-18: Thou, O king, sawest, and\\nbehold a great image. This great image, whose\\nbrightness was excellent, stood before thee; and\\nthe form thereof was terrible. This image s head\\nwas of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver,\\nhis belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron,\\nhis feet part of iron and part of clay. And I\\nbeheld another beast coming up out of the earth\\nand he had two horns like a iamb, and he spake as\\na dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the\\nfirst beast before him, and causeth the earth and\\nthem which dwell therein to worship the first beast,\\nwhose deadly wound was healed. And he doth\\ngreat wonders, so that he maketh fire to come\\ndown from heaven on the earth in the sight of\\nmen, and deceiveth them that dwell in the earth", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "THK AUTOCHKIST. 63\\nby means of these miracles which he had power\\nto do in the sight of the beast j saying to them\\nthat dwell on the earth, that they should make an\\nimage to the beast, which had the wound by a\\nsword and did live. And he had power to give life\\nunto the image of the beast, that the image of the\\nbeast should both speak, and cause that as many\\nas would not worship the image of the beast should\\nbe killed. And he causeth all, both small and\\ngreat, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a\\nmark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:\\nand that no man might buy or sell, save he that\\nhad the mark, or the name of the beast, or the\\nnumber of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him\\nthat hath understanding count the number of the\\nbeast: for it is the number of the man; and his\\nnumber is Six hundred threescore and six.\\nPassing the supposition that Xapoleon I. was\\nthe beast (the king never dies beast is govern-\\nment, king) which received the deadly wound or.\\nWaterloo, and did (or will) live in a subsequent\\nmember of his family, we will proceed. Inas-\\nmuch as Daniel s image, as stated in the reference,\\nwas to convey to Nebuchadnezzar a knowledge of\\nevents and political conditions which should trans-\\npire hereafter, we will fancy, as the king beheld\\nthe image standing before him, he was facing\\nnorthwest from Babylon and the right foot of the\\nimage was at Rome, with the left foot at Constan-\\ntinople, somewhat advanced towards Jerusalem;", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "G t THE AUTO-CHRIST.\\nand body slightly projected, as if in tlio act of\\nstepping forward. And this is in accord with the\\nchronological formation of the Latin and Greek\\nChurches. Dexter, prior, at Rome: sinister, sub-\\nsequent, at Constantinople. Viewing the image\\nin this pose, poised for an advance, we will ascer-\\ntain its name from the number in the reference\\nG6G for it is the number of a man.\\nThere is a system of numbering, both in the\\nCreek and Latin languages, known as the numer-\\nical alphabet, each letter standing for a certain\\nnumber. But, taking this mystic number as a\\nguide, we will first determine the nationality of\\nthe man. The Apocalypse was written in Greek.\\nAnd we find one nation, and one only, in all an-\\ncient or modern history whose name will bear even\\na first glance. That one is expressed in the phrase\\nThe Latin Kingdom, as written in Greek, thus:\\nHe-8; L-50, a-1, t-300, i-10, n-50, e-8 B-2, a-1,\\ns-200, i-10, 1-30, e-5, i-10, a-1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 666. It should be\\nnoted that the e in Latine is eta, while the e in Bas-\\nileia is epsilon; a difference in number, in favor\\nof the former, of three (3).\\nAs to the man. The Bonapartes, though of\\nGreek extraction, were French, and France is a\\nLatin nation. Take the official or kingly cogno-\\nmen, Napoleon in the Greek dative, and we have:\\nN-50, a-1, p-80, o-70, 1-30, e-5, o-TO, n-50, t-300,\\ni-10\u00e2\u0080\u0094 666.", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CHRIST. 05\\nThe mark of the number of the man was to\\nbe in their right hands and (or) foreheads Na-\\npoleonti for Napoleon. The hand dexter\\nand. the forehead intellect were to work for\\nNapoleon.\\nFurther: This Russian Colonel Bonaparte s\\ngiven name is Louis Latin, Lvdovicvs. Numer-\\nically it stands: L-50, v-5, d-500, v-5, i-1, c-100,\\nv-5, s-0\u00e2\u0080\u0094 666.\\nCall it the finger of fate, accidental coinci-\\ndence or the whisperings of divine prescience, as\\nyou will, counting from A. D. 532, the date of the\\nedict of Justinian, 666 years, we arrive at the\\nheight of the pope s temporal power under Inno-\\ncent III., A. D. 1198. Adding another 666\\nyears, and we have A. D. 1864, the date of Prince\\nLouis Napoleon s birth. Is this historical doub-\\nling of this number of the Wonderful Numberer\\nmeaningless or does it adumbrate the two legs\\non which this terrible image which dominates hu-\\nmanity stands\\nJust here, in order to show that nothing is set\\ndown in this paper through prejudice to the Ro-\\nman Catholic, or any other religious body of peo-\\nple, we will give a synopsis of quotations from\\nRoman Catholic writers as quoted in a treatise\\nwritten by Dr. Manning, Papal Archbishop of\\nLondon, entitled Present Crisis of the Holy\\nSee. These writers hold that the Christian faith\\nis to be destroyed, and Rome made the seat of infi-", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "66 THE AUTO-CHRIST.\\ndel idolatry. He further states, on the authority\\nof Malvenda, that it is the opinion of Suarez, Me-\\nlus, Viegas, Basius, and others equally eminent,\\nthat Borne in the last times will pass backward to\\nher ancient idolatry, power and imperial great-\\nness. She will cast out her pontiff, and apostatize\\nfrom Christianity, persecute the church, shed the\\nblood of Christians more abundantly than was\\ndone in pagan days, and recover her former state\\nof abundant wealth, and perhaps eclipse her for-\\nmer grandeur under her first rulers.\\nBut this name Napoleon, which has become a\\nsynonym for all worldly success, has a strange,\\nand perhaps, as considered by some, a fanciful,\\netymological phylum. Read Jeremiah iv. 7:\\nThe lion is coming up from his thicket, and the\\ndestroyer of the Gentiles is on his way. Keep\\nthis statement of the prophet in mind while re-\\nmembering that the Greek napos signifies a\\nthicket, and leon is a lion a lion from the thicket.\\nFurther: The Greek nai, truly, verily,\\njoined to apoleon, exuresses the idea, truly a de-\\nstroyer; i. e.. apoleon I destroyed; second aor-\\nist tense of apollyma, to destroy. Now prefix\\nthis name as constructed to the Greek halos meros\\nthe good part; Italianized, buona parti (e)\\nGreek dative. Again prefix to these the name of\\nLouis (Ch)vis: old German, Ohlodwig, i. e.,a. great\\nwarrior modern German, Lud wig French, Louis)\\nand we have Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, literally", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CHRIST. 67\\ntranslated, A great warrior; truly a destroyer of\\nthe good part. Of the Gentiles Yes. Wholly\\nincluded in the Anglo-Saxon Christian civilization\\nof the nineteenth century amongst the Gentiles.\\nPlaced as Prince Louis Napoleon is at present,\\na trusted colonel in the Russian army, at the cen-\\nter of the above-mentioned arc, he holds the coign\\nof vantage, by position and prestige of name, for as-\\nsuming the military control of all allied forces\\nwhich may cooperate to call down Anglo-Saxon\\ndomination in the East. As to the methods to ob-\\ntain this end by a union of forces, we only have\\nto take one glance at the late operations in Bul-\\ngaria. There the assassination of the incorruptible\\nStambuloff, and the so-called conversion of the\\nyoung Prince Boris to the Greek Church, the re-\\nsult of intrigue where force had failed, shows too\\nplainly that Russia is slowly but surely fastening\\nher giant octopodian arms firmly on every power\\nand country likely to be of service in the oncoming\\nstruggle.\\nFor the animus of the modus vivendi, we cite\\nRev. xvi. 13, 14, to which the reader will please\\ngive careful attention before proceeding: And\\nI saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of\\nthe mouth of the dragon, and out of the beast, and\\nout of the mouth of the false prophet. For they\\nare the spirits of devils, working miracles, which\\ngo forth unto the kings of the earth and of the\\nwhole world, to gather them to the battle of that", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "68 THE AUTO-CHRIST.\\ngreat day of God Almighty. Three frogs con-\\nstituted the ancient coat-of-arms and insignia of\\nFrance under Clovis but this device was strangely\\n(fatally revived under Louis VII., in the form\\nof the fleur de Us with its three petals as his seal\\na plant which springs from the marshland, the\\nhome of the frog. Charles VI. decided that the\\nnumber of these flowers on his banner should be\\nthree. The flower is borne on a peduncle having\\ntwo long sword-shaped leaves (army and navy?).\\nThe above naturally directs attention to France\\nas a source from which these spirits emanate. We\\ngive parentage to them as follows:\\nFrom the Beast Traditions of a royal ancestry\\nAutocracy.\\nFrom the Dragon Ambition of wealth to rule\\nPlutocracy.\\nFrom the False Prophet Superstition as to the\\nman of destiny Idolatry.\\nHere we have the resulting bacteria from a\\nmedieval leaven fermenting in the stagnant pool?\\nof a decaying Orientalism.\\nInspired by this trinity of spirits, for the end\\nand purposes set forth in the last Scriptural ref-\\nerence, our fancied Napoleonic image, striding\\nItaly, the Adriatic Sea and European Turkey, sud-\\ndenly gathering his terrible force, moved by the\\noccult energies above shown, steps its right foot\\nwith mighty tread from Rome, southeast to the\\nplain of Esdraelon, and as rapidly brings the left", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CHRIST. 69\\nfoot from Constantinople, placing them heel to\\nheel, toes out, and awfully stands at attention.\\nHere Barak, in the forenoon of Semitic history,\\nstood to judge Israel, and at the beginning of the\\npresent century iNapoleon I. stood to judge the\\nworld.\\nStanding now at the cock-crowing hour of morn\\nof the orthodox sabbatic thousand years of the\\nworld s history, in the wee sma hours of the twen-\\ntieth century, as the morning star of the grander\\nages rises to view, fancy wrests the prophetic wand\\nfrom the hand of General Upton and with it points\\nto Mt. Tabor on the northeastern bonier of Esdra-\\nelon. Stretching on either hand to the west and\\neastward are the hosts gathered by the froglike\\nspirits; and on the mountain itself, with glass\\npoised, looking toward the Zion of Jewish song,\\nlooms he of the tinsel-covered, three-cornered hat\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094the flower of three petals; autocracy, plutoc-\\nracy, idolatry; crook, cross and crescent- yet in-\\nfidelic and mighty commander of conservative\\narmies which hope to crash Saxon civilization from\\nthe earth. But John Bull and Brother Jonathan,\\nnot cousins, but brothers Ephraim and Manas-\\nseh both sons of Joseph are there before him.\\nLike a monstrous saber laid flat on the ground\\nwith the hilt near the mouth of the Kishon, blade\\ncovering the river bordering the curve of the Car-\\nmel range, and point resting on Gilboa, forming\\nhelmet, gorget, cuirass, cuish and greave for the", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "70 THE AUTO-CITRIST.\\nhope of humanity, stand the devoted hosts to do\\nbattle for the sacred dogma that all just powers\\nof government are derived from the consent of\\nthe governed.\\nThe morning sun of the twentieth century\\ngilds the fated plain that has, ever and anon,\\nbeen made drunken with the blood of bygone ages.\\nThe long roll is beaten, and to the music of the\\nthunders of Krupp and the babbling of Gatling\\nthe opposing forces confront each other as the\\nbreath of hell taints the air which once throbbed\\nfor joy at the twang of Israel s harp. The bugles\\nsound the charge, and, perhaps, high above all are\\nheard the notes of that gold trumpet with the\\nHebrew inscription found in the Danish farmer s\\nfield and now in the museum at Copenhagen.\\nEarth reels, and there comes that awful shock in\\nwhich nations are shivered, splintered and ground\\nto dust. And the Napoleon dynasty is crushed\\nforever.\\nPale, bleeding, with many wounds, but yet\\nalive, the Saxon rises from the field of death and\\ncarnage and gazes on a world redeemed. Start-\\ning from the old site where the hairy Tishbite\\nin days of yore taunted the prophets of Baal, and\\ndirected the battle of the gods on Carmel, a lone\\ncourier, whose features bespeak him a brother of\\nMoses, rides southward as Sheridan rode to Win-\\nchester. On, on, passing Ramoth, Mt, Ebal, Ja\\ncob s Well, Shiloh, Gilgal, Bethel, Gibeon, Mizpeh,", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CHBIST. 71\\nfifty or more miles without halt or slack, he reins\\nhis exhausted steed at Salem s gate, and calls to\\nJudah s praying daughters: Arise! Shine! for\\nthy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is\\nrisen upon thee. The crescent has gone down in\\nblood, and the Turk shall rule us no more for-\\never. The threnody of despair is changed to a\\nrhapsody of glory, and the air, throbbing with\\njoy through Lebanon s cedar boughs, wafts the\\nnotes of a song nineteen hundred years old:\\nb Peace on earth, good will to men. It is the\\nsong of Israel s handmaidens.", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "READING FOR THE EVENING\\nSERVICE.\\nThou sawest till that a stone was cut out\\nwithout hands, which smote the image upon its\\nfeet that were of iron and clay, and broke them\\nto pieces. Then was the iron and the clay, the\\nbrass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces to-\\ngether, and became like the chaff of the summer\\nthreshing-floors; and the wind carried them away,\\nthat no place was found for them; and the stone\\nthat smote the image became a great mountain, and\\nfilled the whole earth (Dan. ii. 34, 35).\\nPOST-LUDIUM.\\nHail Columbia.\\nRule Britannia.\\nPOST-SCRIPTUM\\nSonic believe the name Saxon to be derived\\nfrom the Latin saxum a rock; stone. See any\\ndictionary for words commencing with sax.\\nIf this conjectured derivation be correct, will it\\nsuggest the idea that the Saxons constitute the\\nstone that was cut out without hands, which\\nsmote the image on its feet Credat qui vult.", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "THE AUTO-CHRIST. ?3\\nAnd he shall judge among the nations, and\\nshall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their\\nswords into plowshares, and their spears into prun-\\ningdiooks; nation shall not lift up sword against\\nnation, neither shall they learn war any more\\n(Isa. ii. 4).", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "ADDENDA.\\nTHE OCEAN IS OURS.\\nThis poem was written by Hon. Bellamy Storer, United-\\nStates Minister to Belgium, under the inspiration of a para-\\ngraph in an article published in the Paris Temps, on the de-\\nstruction of the Spanish fleet off Santiago, and was sent to\\nMrs. Theodore Roosevelt, who has kindly consented to its\\npublication in Harper s Weekly. The following is a translation\\nof the paragraph in question:\\nIf it is true that all the Spanish fleet has been destroyed\\nexcept a single ship, it is a disaster almost equal to that of\\nthe Grand Armada. Once more the sea has beti ayed Spain to\\nthe profit of that Anglo-Saxon race which appears decidedly,\\nunder whatever flag it fights\u00e2\u0080\u0094 under the stars and stripes, or\\nunder the union jack to have all the favors of that element.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094The Editor.\\nComes the roar of the ship guns\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThe English-speaking ship guns-\\nTelling the Latin race, frantic and eld,\\nTelling all Russia, gigantic and young.\\nTelling the feudal boy-Kaiser romantic,\\nWhat the Spanish Armada by Howard was tola;\\nWhat the winds to the salt sea for ages have sung.\\nTelling the powers;\\nTne ocean is ours.\\nTogether we pull,\\nNelson and Farragut,\\nRodney and Hull.\\nO er the Pacific\\nComes the roar of the ship guns\\nThe English-speaking ship guns-\\nSingeing the beard of the Don at Manila\\nAs Drake did at Cadiz three centuries gone.\\nThe Orient shakes at the thunder terrific,\\nDrake s message from Dewey: We sank their flotilla\\nIn spite of their forts! As you did, we ve done!\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2The ocean is ours,\\nThe ocean is ours.\\nTogether we pull,\\nNelson and Farragut,\\nRodney and Hull. Harper s Weekly.", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2754", "width": "1688", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "JEC 8 1899", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2744", "width": "1855", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2857", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "autochristselfan00smit_0088.jp2"}}