The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-20

such remarkable power that the in
terest OF the reader is held unclaimed
from the first page to the last.
Those who begin it are loath to lay
it down until it is finished. and un-
knowingly rob themselves of sleep
while under it's weird fascination.
Caesars Column" is a book COM
posed of a series of letters. from Ga
briel Weltstein to hiss brother, Helm
rich Weltstein, in the State of Ugan-
da, Africa, the first letter being dated
New York City, Sept. 10th, 1888.
i The American metropolis has then
become a city OF ten million of people.
Air-ships and other marvellous in
ventiOns are in common use and the
100000 Plntocratic rulers of the
Empire City and American Republic
are rich beyond the widest exagger-
ations of oriental fable, and withall
the way the country is run and the
general condition Of it's people are
about the same in method and
character as to-day, they have be-
come desperately intensified, that
is all.
For ninety-eight years the poor
have been growi g poorer and the
rich richer, and the contrast between
their conditions has become hideous
and tragic.
At that era a Plutocratic oligar-
chy OF a dozen or so rich nabobs
meets from time to time in the palace
of their chairman and determine on a
policy, they will have a lackey Presi-
dent. lackey Governors, Congresses
and Supreme Courts.
OF course the same thing is done
to-day, but it is secret and disa-
vowed, but in 1888 all wise men
know that the oligarchy is terrible
fact and either submissively bow to
it's DEGREES or are remOrselessly
crushed.
But all these years, far below the
surface, volcanic forces had been
silently gathering strength for a
dread outbreak that was to ami
hilate the shams, crimes and cruelties
OF modern civilization and sweep it's
we'll satisfied votaries off the face OF
the earth.
The Brotherhood OF Destruction
had it's ramifcations all over Europe
as we'll as in America and it's one
hundred million members were under
such discipline and SO thoroughly in
communication, that an uprising
could take place at the same hour
all over the civilized world
The awful word was spoken and a
wave of flame and carnage rolled
over every so-called Christian nation,
and the poor toilers who have been
so long down trodden and oppressed
that they were converted into human
tigers, in their wild revenge swept
away all traces OF the civilization
which was associated with their un-
utterable misery.
When the carnival Of blood was
over America and Europe were al
most depopulated. and only a hand
full Of ferocious savages survived.
Another black night OF a thousand
wears closed down on mankind, from
which they could only emerge into
daylight by slowly and toilfully pick
ing their way as our ancestors did
OF old-through the gloom OF bar
barlsm into the twilight of semi-civil-
ization-and at last after a weary
pilgrimage OF long centuries into
another era of Christian enlight-
ment.
In New York City 100000 Of the
Plutocracy were slain in one night
and the problem as to what should
be done with their bodies resulted in
J the erection OF Caesars Column from
the corpses which had liquid cement
poured over them, and for which
Gabriel Weltstein wrote the following
inscription:
This GREAT MONUMENT
is
erected by
CESAR LoMELLINI,
Commanding General OF the Bro
therhood Of Destruction,
in commemoration of
the Death and Burial OF