The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-11-23

wake. Her breath, reeking of sordid transactions,
,er voice Of metallic character likS1gold, and her
ook of greed are so much poison to the nations
who fall victims to her charms.
And behold, she has three gigantic arms with
three torches of universal corruption in her
hands. The first torch represents the flame OF
war, that the beautiful courtesan carries from
city to city and country to country. Patriotism
answers with flashes of honest flame but the emo
is a roar of guns and muskets.
The second torch bears the flame OF bigotry
and hypocrisy. It lights the lamps only in tenn
pies and on the affairs of sacred institutions. II
carries the seed of falsity and fanatlcism. IL
kindles the minds that are still In cradles ana
follows them to their graves:
The third torch is that of the law, that dam
gerous foundation of all unauthentic traditions
which first does it's fatal work in the family, then
sweeps through the larger world Of literature,
art and craftsmanship.
The great confederation will start about 1912,
set by the torch of the first arm in the countries
of Southeastern Europe. 1t will develop into a
destruction and calamity in 1914. In that year
see all Europe in flames and bleeding. hear the
lamentations of huge battlefields.
But in the year 1915 the strange figure from
the north-a new Napoleon enters the stage of
the bloody drama. He is of little militar-
istic training, writer or journalist, but in his
grip most of Europe will remain until 1925
The end of the great calamity will mark a new
political era for the old world. There will be left
no empires or kingdoms, but the world will form
a federation of the United States of Nations.
There will remain only four great giants-Ihe
Anglo-Saxons, the Latins, the Slavs and the Mon
golians.
After the year 1925 I see change in rellg-
ious sentiment. The second torch of the courte-
san has brought about the fall of the church, The
ethical idea has almost vanished. Humanity is
without moral feeling.
But then a great reformer arises. He will
clear the world of the relics of monotheism and
lay the corner stone of the temple of pantheism
God, soul, spirit and immortality will be molten
in furnace, and I see the peaceful begin
ming Of an ethical era. The man determined to
this mission is a Mongolian Slav. He is already
walking the earth-a man of active affairs. He
himself does not realize the mission assigned tc
him by Superior Powers.
And behold the name of the third torch
which has already begun to destroy our family
relations, our standards of art and morals The
relation between woman and man is accepted as
prosac partnership of the sexes Art has be-
come realistic degeneracy.
Political and religious disturbances have
shaken the spiritual foundations of all nations.
Only small spots here and there have remain
ed untouched by those three destructive flames
The anti-national wars in Europe the class wal
of America and the race wars in Asia have
strangled progress for half century. By then
in the middle of this century, see heroine O.
literature and art rising from the ranks of tn
Latins and Persians, the world of the tediou
stuff of the obvious.
1t is the light of symbolism that shall out
shine the light of the torch of commercialism. Il
place of polygamy and monogamy of today Their
will come REORGANIZATION of the sexe
based fundamentally the poetic conception
of life.
And see the nations growing larger and re
alizing that the alluring woman of their destin
is after all nothing but an illusion There will b
a time when the world will have no use for arm
les, hypocritical religions and degenerate ar
Life is evolution, an evolution is development
from the simple to the more complicated form
of mind and body.
| | see the passing show of the word-drama, i
its present form, how it fades like the glow G
evening upon the mountains One motion of tn
hand of commercialism and new history be
gins.