The Herald, 1914-12-24, Page 6TICS AND COMM ENT5
of many months ago the finance
nistters of Europe were, as they
idled; ab their wits' end tryi ig
find new sources of revenue for
nsttuctive and reformatory pur-
ses. When the British medical
ofession struck against the social
surance act, because the coampen-
i tion offered the doctors for their
rvices thereunder was deemed too
w, Lloyd -George earnestly pro-
sited drat he could not possibly
se •another million or so to pay
e doctors more. In Germany
=plaints were heard that the in-
istrial insurance and eompensa-
on laws were costing the empire
o much money. and that industry
-didn't stand the growing burden.
France proposed and promised
dorms were postponed because
e taxing authorities positively
idn''t know what else to assess.
Think now of these things in the
ght of the war loans and war ere -
its voted by the parliaments of
urope ! The German reichstag,
vith bat one negative vote, has
anctioned new war loans to the
mount of $1,250,000,000, and this
money will be needed in the spring,
f not earlier. The British parlia-
ent voted a like sum the other
day.
The eaunrtries at war, with the
exception of the little fellows who
are being financed by the big bro-
thers, area emphatically "think-
ing imperially," thinking not in
millions but in billions, and think-
ing of these for destructive pur-
poses only. The London Statist, in
a stoieal if not cheerful editorial,
tells the British that the war is cost-
ing them a billion and a half per
annum, and that they will have to
pav indefinitely interest on a new
war debt of about $5,000,000,000. It
thinks, however, that the money
can be raised without much dif-
ficulty on fairly moderate terms -
say 5 per Cent.
Well, perhaps it can. But these
staggering totals are not likely to
he dropped from the sky. Hoard-
ers may become investors to a cer-
tain extent, but the greater part of
the money must be diverted from
industry, enterprise, commerce, and
constructive social reform. The
wealth and capital burned, wasted
destroyed, cannot be used in fur-
ther production, in extension and
improvements. The :loss is irrepar-
able. The loss is a world • loss.
Every nation is suffering and will
continue to suffer from it. And the
infinite pity of it is that the tre-
mendous and almost ineonoeivalbie
losses in life, health. vigor, and
treasure are entailed nob by a war
!for iprincipi,es, for human rights,
for progress, for essential interests
but by a war which even Dr. Dern -
burg, the exponent of the German
view, describes as "unnecessary,
stupid and uncalled for." Must
such a war really go on for years/
Is there no •dhance for. the still small
voice of sanity and common sense 'n
Tu rope ?
Originator of the Iced Cross.
We hear and read a lot in these
days about the Red Cross, but how
many- of us could say (writes a Lon-
don correspondent) offhand that the
founder d this international move-
ment was Henri Diluent, who died
only four years ,ago ? - Greatly in-
fluenced by the example of two Eng -
sit Went en,
ng-shwomen, Elizabeth Fry and
Florence Nightingale, Dunant
started the movement unofficially in
1650 at the time of the Austro -
French bottle of Solfeiino, when he
was known, because of his 'dress, as
the `man in white.' ' In his old age
he fell into poverty. but the award
of the Nobel Pe.aoe Prize smoothed
the passage of his last years. Du-
nant wasa native of Switzerland,
the flag of•w?iich is a White cross on
a red ground. (hit of compliment
t, him a Itecl Cross on ; a -white
'ground Was choeen .by the nations
as a symbol of this beneficent *rga-
nif,atio'n. . ,.
Would Be if Fired at His' Head..
1'.ingerlong---•Shall I • be kee in
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THE WAR FOR1TOL,
A Remarkable Prophecy by a Sixteenth Century
Monk
Writing in the Figaro (Paris),
Mons. Peladan says that when his
father, Adrian Peled.an, who had
devoted himself to the study of pro-
phecies, ecstasies and visions, died
in 1890 he found among the docu
ments a. prophecy by Johannes, a
monk, dated 1600. He had obtain-
ed it from a. canon of the Order of
St. Michel de Frigolet, near Tares -
con, who received it fix= an abbot
named Donat, a studious priest,
who died at Beaucaire at a great
age. In the Figaro, M. Peladan
furnishes extracts from the pro-
phecy, which runs as follows:
The Prophecy.
"1. It will have been thought that
he, the Antichrist,- has frequently
been identified, for • all slayers of
the Lamb have a resemblance, and
all evil-droers are found to be typi-
cal of the Great Evil.
"2. The veritable Antichrist will
be one of the monarchs of his day,
a Lutheran. He will invoke God,
and claim to be His messenger.
"3. This Prince of Liars wi?I
swear by the Scriptures. He will
represent himself as the instru-
ment of the Most High for chasten-
ing the wicked.
"4. He will have but one arm;
but his innumerable troops, who
will take for their motto, `God with
us,' will appear as the legions of
Hell.
"5. For a long time he will agitate
by ruse and felony, his spies will
overrun the world, and he will be
master of great secrets.
"6. He will employ philosophers,
who will prove that his mission is
celestial.
"7. A war will eaause the mask to
be lifted. This will not be that
waged against France, but another
distinguished Power, and in two
weeks this war will become univer-
sal.
"8. This war will enlist all the
peoples of Christendom, Mohtamme-
dans, and even those from afar.
Armies will arise from the four ear-
ners of, the earth.
"9. For the angels will enlighten
the souls of men, and in the third
week they will recognize that this
is the Antichrist, and that they will
all be enslaved if they do not over-
throw this despot.
"10. The Antidirist will be re-
cognized by many,,indications. He
will go out of his way to rea-ssacire
priests, monks, women, children
and the aged. He will show no
mercy: He will go forth torch in
hand, like the barbarians, but in-
voking the name of Christ!
"11. His pretentious words will
resemble those of the Christians,
but hie actions will be those of Nero
and the Roman persecutors . He
will have an eagle in his coat of
arms, and another will appear in
that of his ally, the other bad mon-
arch.
"12. But this one is aChristian,
and he will die by the malediction
of the Pope Benedietus, who will be
elected at the end of the reign of
Antichrist.
"13. Thera will no more be seen
any priests or monks to absolve the
combatants, for, in the first place,
priests and monks will fight with
other citizens, and, further, the
Pope Benedictus will have cursed
the Antichrist, and it will be pro-
claimed that those who fight will
find salvation, and dying, will be
straightway translated to Heaven,
like the martyrs.
"14. The Papal Bull which shall
proclaim these thimgs will resound
afar, and will give fresh life to the
brave and bring death to the allied
monarch of the Antichrist.
"15. The defeat of the Antichrist
will demand the death of more men
than Rome has ever contained. It
will need the united efforts of all
the Powers, for the Cock, the Leo-
pard and the White Eagle will not
make an end of the Black Eagle if
the prayers and wishes- of all hu-
mane people do not aid thein.
"16. Htamanity has never yet
known each great peril, for the tri-
umph of the Antichrist would be
that of the demon of whom he is the
incarnation.
"17. For it has been said that
twenty centuries after the incarna-
tion of the Word the Beast will, in
his turn, incarnate and menace the
world, with as much of evil as the
Divine Incernatian brought of
grace,
"18. Towards the year 2000 the
Anticah.rist will manifest himself..
his army will exceed in numbers
anything that has been imagined.
Thele will be Chriatian•s among his
followers, and there will be Mohaan-
m:ed!anrs and savage troops among
those of the Lamb.
• "19. Thor the first time, . the Lamb
will be aril red. In all Christendom,
red, for blood will flow into all four
elements at the same time.:
"20. The Black Basle will hurl it-
self at the Cock ewho will lose many
feathers, but will use his spur hero-
.ieally. He would speedily be re-
duced but for the 'aid rendered by
the Lcopard and his claws. -
"21. The Black Eagle, who will
come from the Lutheran country;
will surprise the Cock from another
border, and will invade •half the
Cock's territory.
"22. The White Eagle,. who will
come from the 'northern side, will
surprise the Black Eagle and the
other Eagle, and invade the country
of the Antichrist completely from
one end to the .other.
• "23. The Black. Eagle will be
forced to retreat from the Cock in
order to fight the White Eagle, and
the Cock should follow" the Black
Eagle into the territory of the Anti-
christ to help the White Eagle.
"24. The battles which have ta-
ken place up till now will be insig-
nificant beside those which will take
place in the Lutheran country, for
the seven Angelos will pour out the
fires of their vials of wrath on the
impious land, which signifies that
the Lamb will ordain the extermi-
nation
xtermination of the race of Antichrist.
"25. When the Beast finds that
she has lost she will become furious,
and for.eom•e months the beak of the
White Eagle, the talons of the Leo-
pard, and the Spur of the Cock will
have to rend her.
"26. Rivers will be forded by'
means of the dead bodies, which
will divert the course of the waters.
Only the way distinguished will be
interred -the generals and the
princes -for the carnage of the war
will be heaped together with the
victims of plague and hunger.
"27. The Antichrist will, on sev-
eral occasions, sue for peace, but
the Seven Angels who go before the
Three Animals, the defenders of the
Lamb, have proclaimed that victory
shall only be accorded on condition
that the Antichrist is crushed in the
thresher.
"28. The Three Animals, agents of
the justice of the Lamb, cannot
stop fighting whilst there-rensaih
soldiers of the Antichrist.
"29. What makes the decision of
the Lamb so implacable is that 'the
Antichrist has pretended to be
Christian and has acted in His
name, and if he does not perish the
fruit of the Redemption will be lost
and the gates of hell will prevail
against the Saviour. •
"30. It will readily be seen that
the combat which is fought in the
places where the Antichrist forges
his weapons is no longer a human
war. The Three Animals, the de-
fenders of the Lamb, will extermi-
nate the last army of the Anti-
christ; but the battlefield will be
made a charnelhouse as large as
the greatest of cities, for the dead
will have transfigured the place,
makingof it a chain of hillocks.
"31. The Antichrist will lose his
crown, and will die in solitude and
insanity. His empire will be di-
vided into twenty-two States, but
none of them will have either a fort,
an army, or a ship.
"32. The White Eagle, by order of
Michael, -will drive out the Crescent
from'Europe, where there will re-
main none but Christians. He will
establish himself in Constantinople.
"33. Then will commence an era
of peace • and prosperity for " the
world, -and • there will be no • snore
war, but each nation will be got-.
erned- by its conscience and will• live
in justice.
"34. There will be no mare Lu-
therans nor Schismatics, but the
Lamb will reign, and happiness will
dawn upon the race.
"Happy they who shall escape the
perils of this marvellous period, who
shall taste of the fruit of the reign
of the Spirit and the holy celebra-
tion of humanity, which cannot take
place until after the defeat of the
Antichrist," -
• Notes on the Prophecy.
(Frown th•e British Journal of As-
trology).
In the Prophecy it appears that
the symbolism applied is as follows
• The Black Eagle --Germany. '
The White Eagle --Russia,
The other Eagle -Austria-Hun-
gary.
The Cock --France,
The Leopard -Belgium.
The Lamb -Symbol of the Chris,-
taan faith, represented by Great
Britain, under the sign of 'tries,.
The Antichrist- The Spirit of Evil
animating the Black Eaglet, and
.generally ,symbolized IT the
Dragon or "winged Beast."
• The Kaiser is ,the embodiment of
the ."Blood and iron" cult, as op-
posed to. that of .the peaceful orbs
--R
Admiral Von Spee.
Who eomunanded the destroyed
German 'squadron.
•
Attention is called to paragraph 4,
in which he is . said to ha -e only one
arm (the Kaiser has one arm with-
ered and also a short leg, and he
mounts his horse by the wrong
side). Paragraph 10 is quite des-
criptive of the German method of
waging war on neutrals -and non-
combatants.. The inentien of. Pope
Benedictus in paragraph 12 ,is re-
markable; his Holiness of that name
has but recently been elected to the
Papal seat. The fact that there are
many priests fighting, and fighting
most bravely, in the ranks of the
Allies is a clear fulfillment of para-
graphs 9 and 13. All isoeial and
spiritual differences are abolished
in the field. All soldiers are com-
rades. In the course of the present
war we find striking examples of
this fact in the many priests who
go under fire with the greatest cour-
age, and can fight and slay in the
sacred cause of their beloved coun-
try. • Paragraph 15 gives us an idea
of the awful carnage 'that will at-
tend this war. Rome in the second
century bad a population of about
2,000,000-a Dact which must have
been known to Friar John, who was
obviously aRomanist. Paragraph
16 puts this war on its proper spiri-
tual level. It is a war against the
tyranny of the autocrat, materialis-
tic philosophy, and the one-man
creed of the German cult. It re-
gards all humans as embodiments of
apiritual forces which, at this time,
are massed together for the coming
."tribulation." If Truth and Equity,
Peace and Tustice have their repre-
sentatives among men, ,sq also have
those demaniacal powers who are
dominated by the Father of Lies and
the Great Accuser. There is noth-
ing specific in the date "towards the
year 2000," but the fact that we are
in 'the twentieth century, while the
writer of this prophecy lived in the
sixteenth, appears at least a credit-
able estimate. It can literally be
said that blood has been shed in all
the four elements of fire, air, barer
and earth, as :stated in paragraph
19, for the bated incendiary has
spared neither palace nor cottage,
sacred edifice nor common hostel.
All have been burned and devastat-
ed; while women and children have
been slaughtered as ruthlessly as
the most active troops, whose blood
has mingled with the waters in
The Rola-tilled Trenches,
where it has not soddened the earth
about them, or been spilled in mid-
air in •tile .course of some adventur-
ous pursuit of the enemy's air -craft,
As stated in paragraph 26, the exi-
gencies . of the war and the great
numbsr, of fatalities have prevented
the proper interment of the dead.
Often enough, especially in Bel-
gium, the fighters have been driven
out of their positions and forced to
retire, leaving their dead and
wounded to the mercy of the enernt,
Paragraph 27 appears to give lithe
hope of hostilities coming to an end
at a near date, for the "several
ooc!asions" on which the Antichrist
sues for peace must be sundered by
great battles and even whole cam-
paigns. The Spirit, has entered
into our troops and has impressed
the minds of our rulers, se- that ib
is afixed determination that'. this
war is to be one of finality, an+.1, if
need be, of an.nihilatio•n, se that
never again shall the ettabiitiLon a+ntl
arrogance of one pian threaten the
peace of the world. Have you put
the question to yourself : What if
Antichrist should win ? Claiming,
ea he now does, to be subregulus
dei he would then claim to be a
god himself, and his blood -engorged
brans would present him to the
world as the "Man -child .ruling the
nations with a rod Uf iron." Pluto.
crab and autocrat, the Ma -spit -ether
would bracket his name with that of
the Most High. The world would he.
enelaved to tyranny and'oppressinn,
and all the peaceful 'arts would l:ier-
ish. %Celli would he let loose upon
the earth, and the planet would be
e,' `to destruetaon. "T.Terr
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us of final victory over the Anti-
christ, and that the tribulation is
not in vain.- Paragraph 31 con-
firms our belief in the ultimate des-
tiny of the Kaiser and his kingdom.
But it also informs us that Russia
Turks drive out the from Eu-
rope and become keeper of the
gates of the East. Finally, in para-
graph 34, we learn that there will,
be no more aectaxies and sebisme,
but that the Spirit of Christ will
animate the nattions and induce a
period of happiness and prosperity
over the world.
Another Prophecy.
Dom Bosco, a priest at Turin,
founder of the Salesian Order, who
died about ten years ago, also pro-
phesied the war. His prophecy was
published in Le Matin (Paris), in
June, 1901, as follows:
"A European svar will break out
in 1913 or 1914. Germany will be
dismembered; nob, however, before
she shall have penetrated into the
heart of France. There a mighty
arm will hgrl her back across the
Rhine. The man of pride will see
his tree shattered and crushed to
the roots and trodden under 'foot
by all. The great battle will take
place between the two days of Our
Lady, namely, between August 15th
and September 15th, when the Pope
is real and alive again. Belgium
will undergo great suffering, from
which she will emerge increased in
strength and admired by all. Po-
land will regain her rights."
`It knew, moreover, that the rent
was about five shillings and six
!ence a week: that steps had been
F
taken to cancel this dooum.nt; that
for some weeks British troops had
been on the island. Whether
Prince Blucher and family had
moved from the manor house was
not made clear.
The popular outcry against the
Prince, in the opinion of the Lon-
don press generally, is unjustified,
but The Times remarks rather sar-
castically that the public might be
told a little more about the Ger-
man company which was able to ac-
quire so •cheaply so much good farm
and pasture land, together with nu-
merous cottages, not to mention
the manor house. It also is point-
ed out that the island is in the
heart of the English Channel, with-
in sight of the coast- of France,
about 70 miles from Portland and
40 from Cherbourg, it could be used
as a subanorine base, though no-
thing of the kind appears to have
been attempted.
LITTLE ISLAND OF IIl11itN.
Questions Asked About it in British
Rouse of Commons.
One of the strangest stories that
has been given birth by the great
war is that of the Island of Hern,
the leasing of *filch to a German
company was recently discussed in
the House of Commons. The lease
leas been terminated, and British
troops are billeted on the island,
hut the question is still being ask-
ed, why was England so lax as to
rent for a.song an island larger
than Heligoland, within an hour's
steaming of English shores.
Kern is one of the leaser Channel
Islands and at one time supported
a considerable ,population. It is a
beautiful spot, with an ,attractive
shell. beach. In 1889 it was leased
by the 'Crown for $70 a year to the
"West Bank Liegnitz, Limited,"
which in ,turn leased it to Prince
Blather von W.ahlatatt, a descend-
ant of the illustrious Blucher of
Waterloo and himself a German.
The Prince and his family lived
quietly for years in the manor
house op the island, incurring the
great displeasure of these who
eoughb to ramble over the place by
closing 'all •save one narrow path-,
way on the beaeh and plastering
abut many warnings to trespass-
ers.
Children were born to the Prin-
cess there she is of the Russian
royal family -and one of ,,these, a
boy, ;became a naturalized British
eubject, At no .time was the Prince
suspected of using his hoarse in any
operations against England, but
when the war ?broke out the in,atter
became one of natural agitation,
'culminating in the Home Secretary
-being asked for an explanation by
Sir William Bull.
The explanation was bsie±. The
goverain ent knew the name of the
German compel)y holclin.g the le are
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FAMINE FOOD.
What .People Ate During the Siege
of Paris in 1870. -
In a letter by Henry Labouchere,
which is quoted by Mr. A. L. Thor-
old in hips life of the distinguished
journalist, he describes, not without
a characteristic touch of humor,
the extremes to which the inhabi-
tants of Paris were driven during
the siege of 1870.
I went to see what was going on
in the house of afriend of mine in
the Avenue de l'Imperatriee, who
has left Paris. The servant who seas
in charge told ine they had not been
able to obtain bread far three days,
and that the last time he had pre-
sented his ticket, he had been
given about half an inch of Cheese.
"Haw do you live; then?"- 1
asked.
After leeldng mysteriously around
to see that no one wags waate.hing us
he took me down into the eel lar a sed
-pointed to some meat in a barrel,
"It is half a horse," he said, in the
bone of a man who is showing some
one the corpse of his murdered vic-
tim. "A neighboring coachman
killed him, and we 'saltted him shown
and divided him." Then he opened
a closet isr whioh ,eat a, huge cat. "I
am fattening her up for Christmas;
we mean to serve her up surrounded
with mice -like sausages."
On January 6th, La+bouchere
notes : "Yeste•rday, I had a allies of
Pollux for dinner, Castor and his
brother Pollux are two elephants
that have been killed, The heat
was tough, coarse said oily, .and . I
do not recommend English families
to east elephant when they -Mot get
beef or mitten. Many of the. ro-
ta -areas are closed for lack of fuel.
They use lamps, but even -French
cooks when they are called utron t
cook an elephant with a. spirit la
find the thing almost beyond thei
ingenuity. Castor's and Pollux
trunks are sold for forty-five francs
a. pound ; the caber parte of the in-
teresting twins fetched abc,nt ten
frames a pound."
Not all the strange Node eaten
during the siege were as analluring.
On the subject of donkey. l.abou-
chere .nays: "Donkey is i,ifinitoly
better eating than beef or nnrtton
indeed, 1 do not know any meat
that is better. Let - anyote who
doubts the excellence of cold •don-
key slay ons of triose weak-minded
animals, cook frim, and eat him." •
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