The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-03

versal character, which mus
shortly come to pass. Theil
spiritual outlines are nov
before my eyes. l see floating
upon the surface of the sea OF
human fate the huge silhouette
of nude woman She is-with her
beauty, her poise, her smile, her jew
elsa super Venus. Nations rush
madly after her, each of them eager
to attract her especially. But she,
like an eternal courtesan, flirts with
all. In her hair ornament of diamonds
and rubies is engraved her name,
"Commercialism. AS alluring and
bewitehing as she seems, much de-
struction and agony follows in her
wake. Her breath, reeking Of sordid
transactions, her voice of metallic
character like gold, and her look of
greed are so much poison to the ma
tions who fall victims to her charms.
And behold, she has three gigantic
arms and three torches of universal
corruption in her hand. The first
torch represents the flame of war,
that the beautiful courtesan carries
from city to city and country to coun-
try. Patriotism answers with flashes
of honest flame, but the end is the
roar Of guns and musketry.
The second torch bears the flame of |
bigotry and hypocrisy. 1t lights the
lamps only in temples and on the
affairs of sacred institutions. 1t car
ries the seed of falsity and fanaticism.
II kindles the minds that are still in
cradles and follows them to theft
graves.
The third torch is that of the law,
that dangerous foundation of all UNI
authentic traditions, which first does
its fatal work in the family, then
sweeps through the large worlds of
literature, art and craftsmanship.
The great confiagration will start
about 1912, set by the torch of the
first arm in the countries of south
eastern Europe. 1t VIII develop into
a destructive calamity in 1913. In
that year | see all Europe in flames
and bleeding. hear the lamentations
of huge battle fields. But about the
year 1915 strange figure from the
North-a new Napoleon.-enters the !
stage of the bloody drama He is a
man Of militaristic training, writer
or a journalist, but in his grip most
of Europe will remain until 1925. The
end Of the great calamity will mark I
new political era for the Old World. I
There will be left no empires and
kingdoms, but the world will form {
federation of the United States of Ma !
tons. There viii remain only four c
great giants-the Anglo Saxons, the
Latins, the Slavs and the Mongolians.
After the year 1925 see change
in religious sentiments. The second {
torch of the courtesan has brought !
about the fall of the Church. The I
ethical idea has almost vanished. HUI \
mainly is without the 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 new furnace and /
see the peaceful beginning of an eth
ical era. The man determined to this $
mission is Mongolian Slav.. He is
walking the earth--a man of n
active affairs. He himself does not
now realize the mission assigned to {
him by superior power t
And behold the flame of the third q
torch, which has already begun to |
destroy our family relations, our a
standards of art and morals. The re- I
lation between man and woman is r
accepted as prosaic partnership of |