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Review and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 20.

Marvel of Nations

Review and Herald

May 20, 1902

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 20, 1902

Marvel of Nations

In the German, Danish, and Swedish Languages

These books have just been issued. They are fresh from the press. They are up to date in every particular. The Editor of the Sions Väktare, the Swedish paper, says the Swedish “Marvel of Nations” is one of the finest books in that language, in both the construction and the contents. The German and Danish editions are also of a high grade, both in mechanical construction and in the translation. Our foreign laborers can be assured that these books rank high among American translations; and the subject matter, being of great importance, and providentially interwoven with the history of this country, renders these books interesting and attractive to our American people, and especially so to those who have recently come to this country, and who desire to know more of the history of the nation. The principal object of the book is not to call the attention to the historical past, but to the Scriptural future of this nation, and through the prophecies connected with this country to the final termination of all earthly governments, and the setting up of the kingdom of God.
The foreign people in America have never had the privilege of reading the prophetic history of this nation in their own languages, and as the Biblical future of this nation is associated with its early and present history, and as all people in this country are easily interested in the prosperity and growth of this nation, it is a very easy matter to interest them in this message-bearing volume.
Consecrated men and women are needed to solicit for these foreign books while they are new. Who will respond to this need?
The prospectus for each of these languages is composed of a full book in the English language, with sample pages of the foreign languages bound in. This prospectus sells for 60 cents, postpaid. The book retails at $1.25 and $1.50 in all the languages.
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A Rare Opportunity

Beginning July 6 and continuing through the remainder of the year, the entire Bible-studying people in the principal nations of the world will study the Exodus, the Sanctuary, and the general history of the children of Israel; and, inasmuch as the author of that excellent book, “Patriarchs and Prophets,” devotes more than half of its rare subject matter to the consideration of these subjects; and as it is conceded by all who know the book, to be the best commentary extant on the Old Testament Scriptures; and especially upon the history of Israel, the immediate future will be an unusually favorable time to introduce this book in the homes of all the people who study the International Sunday School Lessons.
It is published in the English, Danish-Norwegian, Swedish, German, and Holland languages. There is not a book published by our denomination that all nationalities will read with as much profit, at this time, as this excellent work. Diligent effort, therefore, should be put forth in behalf of its circulation now while the circumstances are favorable. In all the languages the book sells at retail as follows: cloth, plain edges, $2.25; cloth, gilt edges, $2.75; library, $3; full morocco, $4.50.
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Something Special

A book, and the only one of the kind, for our Swedish neighbors. The title “Health Manual” suggests the nature of this practical book. In the main, this Swedish Manual is a translation of that well-known book by Dr. J. H. Kellogg, the “Household Manual.” The translation has been made by Dr. P. A. Levin, and it is a good one.
The following chapter headings will give some idea of what the book contains:—
Domestic Hygiene; Foods and Drinks; The Hygienic System; Health; Drugs Kill, Nature Cures; Simple Remedies for Common Diseases; Accidents and Emergencies; Baths, Packs, Fomentations, etc.; Useful Hints and Recipes; Recipes for Healthful Food; Health and Diseases of Women, etc.
This is the general scope of the “Health Manual.” Under each of these headings are many subheadings and topics too numerous to mention. It is the only book of its kind published in the Swedish language, and should be in every Swedish home.
On account of having an over stock of this book on hand, the price has been greatly reduced. The regular price is $1, and it is well worth it. It is now offered for 20 cents.
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“Sudden Destruction”

By L. A. S.

THE catastrophe which has turned the eyes of the civilized world upon the island of Martinique, in the French West Indies, stands without a parallel in all the history of disasters for the suddenness with which nature’s concealed agencies of destruction overwhelmed an entire city filled with thousands of people, giving no opportunity for even the fleetest-footed inhabitant to escape. Other volcanic eruptions there have been which wrought memorable destruction of life and property, and earthquakes with even greater loss of life than is reported from this stricken island; but never before, since the Almighty rained fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah, has there been anything to parallel the storm of fire which overwhelmed St. Pierre, the chief city of Martinique, from the neighboring volcano of Mount Pelée, on the morning of May 8.
When Vesuvius rained destruction upon Pompeii, many of the inhabitants found time to escape from the doomed city, and many who lost their lives had turned back after treasures which they believed they would have time to rescue from their homes. At St. Pierre there was no attempt to save anything but life, and eyewitnesses of the catastropheagree that for only two or three minutes was existence possible anywhere within the city after the eruption began. The swiftest horse, or even a railway train at full speed, could hardly have carried a human soul to safety from a death so swift.
We are somewhat accustomed in this country to an agency of destruction called the tornado, which levels houses and does general damage by the force of the air that we breathe. Suppose, then, that fire were substituted for air in the tornado; how much more fearful would be its destructive power! It was nothing less than a tornado of fire which swept the city of St. Pierre; its force was that of the blast which accompanies an explosion, for it was in truth a gigantic explosion which occurred on that fatal morning down in the bowels of the burning mountain, and the neighboring city, five miles distant, was the victim of its fiery force. Like a gigantic boiler which has become weakened in some place from excessive strain, the overlying crust of earth within the crater, subjected to the pressure of forces beyond the ability of human instruments to measure, suddenly gave way above them and “blew up,” liberating lava and burning gases and red-hot ashes, which rose into the air and swept over the surrounding territory almost in a moment of time.
In an earthquake shock there is comparative safety in the fields, away from the falling buildings of the city or town; but neither city nor field, nor yet the sea, afforded safety within a radius of miles from the spouting crater. The ships in the harbor of St. Pierre, of which there were many, were overwhelmed and destroyed almost as quickly as the houses on the land. One steamship which had steam up, escaped by cutting its anchor cable, and steaming at full speed out of the harbor, not without a deep coating of fiery ashes on its deck, and nearly half its crew dead or injured from the fiery hail. The day, which had dawned clear and bright, was turned to black darkness by the falling ashes, through which penetrated dimly the glare of the burning city, and the cries of perishing thousands on the shore. One survivor says, “It was like witnessing the end of the world.”
Profitably may we pause and reflect, with the picture of this terrible event before our minds, that as surely as the word of God is true, a destruction like that which has blotted St. Pierre from the earth awaits the whole wide world at no distant date. In that way will a righteous God punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. “Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.” Ps. 11:6. Of this destruction the world is to be warned ere the cup of its iniquity is full. The King’s business requires haste.
Why came this sudden destruction upon the inhabitants of St. Pierre? Not, certainly, because they were wicked above all others upon the earth. “Suppose ye that these . . . were sinners above all . . . because they suffered such things? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” Luke 13:1–4. L. A. S.

The Lesson of Nature

By Uriah Smith

Editorial

The Lesson of Nature

BY the lessons which he gave during his earthly ministry, the great Teacher has so connected the things of nature with the things of the Spirit as to make it clear that they are not separate revelations, but only different parts of the one revelation of the infinite character of God. Before sin entered into the world, casting a shadow over the face of nature and darkening the human mind, man could read upon every leaf of the trees, as readily as we can now read upon the leaf of the written word, the revelation that “God is love.” The same revelation is there still, and the Saviour’s teaching interprets it to us. Those who will accept the interpretation will find the things of nature constantly speaking to them of the presence, the power, and the goodness of the Creator of all.

The Inaudible Voice

ONE whose eyes have been anointed can see more in the things about him than mere masses of material and combinations of color. “For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity.” He whose ears have been opened can hear in the sounds which come to him, the messages of love from the Father of all, and even where there is no wave of sound, and “all inaudible is their voice,” still he hears and reads the same messages. He misses much of the truest enjoyment in life, and fails to avail himself of the means of continual fellowship offered to him, whose experience has not been enriched by the interpretation of nature as given in the written word. He sees and hears to the best advantage in the one who has learned, through the aid of the revelation in the written message, to see the invisible and to hear the inaudible, and to recognize the one message of truth in them all.

The Study of Nature

THE study of nature may be much more to the Christian than the mere gratification of the sense of the beautiful. Even this benefit is not to be despised, but there is the possibility of much more. In the light of the Scripture we may recognize every created object as the material form with which the Word has clothed itself, and we may be constantly sustained with the thought that the power which forms and upholds all things about us has been given to us to form us into the divine image, and to uphold us in all our ways. A look at a beautiful landscape, a view of a noble mountain rearing its head to the clouds, the sight of a mighty waterfall or of the mirror-like surface of the quiet lake, ought in either case to inspire a new sense of hope and courage in the heart of the Christian, as they impress him directly with a sense of the Creator’s love and power, or as they bring to his mind the words of some familiar text which interprets the real meaning of the scene before him. The same principle applies to nature study with the help of pictures. It is better to study the face of nature than the faces of men. Although the curse rests heavily upon the works of God, and his handiwork has been marred by sin, yet there is still such a revelation in the things that are made as will bring blessing to those who will receive it. It will be a helpful experience to each one of us if we discipline our minds to recognize the connection which actually exists between God’s written word and his works. This will enable us to keep God always in our thoughts, and to enjoy the continual fellowship of his presence.

The King Does not Sell, but Gives

THE reader has doubtless heard of the poor woman who, passing by a royal garden, looked longingly at the flowers within, and sought to purchase some for her little daughter who was ill at home. But the gardener rudely and angrily repulsed her, saying, “The king’s flowers are not for sale.” But just then the king himself happened to pass by, and taking in the situation, and having respect to the woman’s request, plucked a beautiful bouquet with his own hand, and presented it to the woman, saying, “True, the king’s flowers are not for sale; he does not sell them, but he gives them away.” It is so with the Lord. The most valuable treasure in the possession of the great King, for bestowal upon his creatures, is the gift of eternal life; but like the gift of the flowers in the incident just noted, he does not sell it, but gives it away. Only on the condition that we appreciate it above everything we are required to give up may we acquire its possession; we must appreciate and recognize the love that has provided it, above everything we can forego to gain it. But if one should attempt to buy it, he would find that it is not for sale. The only wages offered for anything that we can do, of ourselves, is death. “The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” All can have this beautiful production from the field of heaven, who will seek it, and accept of it from the Lord of life and glory. U. S.

The Enduring Foundation

A VERY gratifying feature of the exercises connected with the laying of the corner stone of the new Sanitarium, a report of which is given in another part of this paper, was the absence of fulsome personal flattery, and the emphasis which was placed upon the principles for which the institution stands. All the speakers seemed to appreciate the fact that the occasion was not intended to be merely an opportunity to glorify men, but rather to set forth anew that which is greater than any man or any organization,—truth, divine, eternal truth.
Attention was called repeatedly to the important consideration that the foundation of stone was not the real foundation of the institution, but that the principles which had been wrought into its work during the past quarter of a century and more constituted the true foundation, and that this foundation was eternal. Neither fire, nor flood, nor any of the so-called forces of nature could overthrow such a foundation, or destroy that which was built upon it. This sentiment was well expressed in the lines inscribed upon the reverse side of the handsome trowel presented to Dr. Kellogg by a few friends for use on this occasion:—
“Build as man may, time gnaws and peers Through marble fissures, granite rents; ’Tis only principle that rears Imperishable monuments.”
This is simply the poetical paraphrase of the inspired statement: “The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” “The truth of the Lord endureth forever.” A substantial building and a suitable equipment are important factors in the work of setting forth the gospel of salvation for spirit, soul, and body, but they are, after all, subordinate to the one essential requisite for success,—the indwelling of the truth as a personality in the living presence in the heart of him who is “the way, the truth, and the life.”
It promises well for the future work of the Sanitarium that these thoughts should be emphasized anew at this time. There is constant danger of forgetting these simple facts, and of resting our hope for success upon that which is at best of secondary importance. While the minds of managers and workers are at present necessarily occupied with the problem of building and equipping a suitable structure in which the principles of the gospel may be fittingly represented, it is of the first importance that the true basis of the work should not be forgotten. “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” Every worker and every institution which is connected with this great movement to prepare the way of the Lord should proclaim with a loud voice, “All flesh is grass. . . . Behold your God!” Every worker and every institution should be in himself and in itself a revelation of “the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,” a witness to the fact that the coming of the Lord to dwell with men is no cunningly devised fable. In this way a genuine message can be quickly borne to the world, the gospel of the kingdom speedily preached in all the world for a witness, and the consummation of our hopes may be realized.

Face to Face with Solemn Obligations

By W. A. S.

WE thank God for the foothold that he has given us in the many lands abroad. This truth is sounding out. It stirs our hearts to see the ranks move forward. Most heart-stirring of all, however, we must confess, is the array of unoccupied fields. We face obligations to-day such as never before pressed upon any people.
When the cables brought the news of the terrible disaster in Martinique,—a populous city swept to destruction in a moment by a whirlwind of volcanic fire, and a whole countryside devastated by earthquake shock and burning ashes,—all our people must have seen in the calamity another evidence that this earth is tottering toward its end. Creation is groaning for her latter day.
But this calamity means something very personal to every believer in this truth. Every school map has shown us the island of Martinique, lying just off our coasts—such a little way from our own doors. For years we have been talking about carrying a warning message from God to every nation, tongue, and people. God has given us the message. He has increased this people. He has made us stewards of means. Our resources have been sufficient, at any time during the last quarter of a century, to have filled the whole world with the sound of this message within a few short years. But in all these years we have never lifted a hand to save a soul in Martinique.
We never sent the warning message to the people of St. Pierre to call them to repentance. They dwelt carelessly under the smoking top of Mount Pélée, a gay city, full of men and women and children who had never heard the truthsfor which we thank God. They never heard, because we to whom God gave a message to take to them settled down at home, and never carried it. God, in mercy forgive us!
The whole world is hastening to its doom. We see the sword of destruction coming upon all lands. We profess to believe that we have a message from God to a perishing world. As we read of the calamities breaking upon the earth, famine, and plague, and flood, and earthquake, it should mean more to us than simply the fulfillment of divine prophecy concerning the latter days. As surely as these things are signs to the world that the end is at hand, they are signs to this people that we must rise as one man and hasten on with our work of warning, or confess ourselves the most negligent and guilty people ever associated with God’s work in the earth.
When we at home hear of flood in China, or famine and pestilence in India, it has a far-away sound to our ears. The statistics of ruin wrought make good arguments to convince people that the latter days have come. It is quite another matter to those who face the terrors of these awful visitations. When the plague began its deadly work in Calcutta, a few years ago, and the authorities planned a house-to-house sanitary inspection, panic seized upon the people. In two days, it was estimated, three hundred thousand people fled out of the city. The streets were filled with men, and women, and children, fleeing, they scarcely knew whither.
It was but a passing incident in the story of the stricken East. The scene shifts; now it is one land and next another convulsed, one people and then another whose hearts meditate terror, and who see the sword of destruction falling. May Heaven save us from sitting at home, studying statistics of the world’s calamities! Is it not high time that we were out in our hundreds, telling earth’s suffering millions of the bright side of all this dark catalogue of increasing disaster?
The Lord is coming. The world is dying before our eyes. We must show the true-hearted in every land the way of salvation from all the evil yet to come upon the earth. The visible breaking up of things has been preparing the minds of men to give attention to the advent warning. Among the millions of the East, where half the world lies in darkness, there is a growing conviction that the end of the age is at hand. A swift crusade through the waiting lands, one grand rally to plant the standard in every unoccupied field, and the work is done.
It is a time for action rather than talk. It is a frightful crime to sit at home, and thank God for blessings received, while a world is perishing unwarned. “There is a world to be saved!” The whole missionary who goes down into the depths of humanity’s need must put his life and his all into the hand of God for service. The believer who remains to work and pray and hold the ropes at home must likewise live for but the one purpose of doing the Lord’s business in the earth. Every energy of the soul and every resource on earth must be held absolutely subject to God’s call. Anything less than this is treason to High Heaven at the very crisis in the great controversy. In the way in which we are facing this problem of our world-wide work to-day, in the response we are giving to the calls for help, we are deciding our eternal destiny. W. A. S.

Studies in the Gospel Message

THE subject of the Sabbath school lesson for May 31, the ninth in the present series, is The Law of God in the Ark and in the Heart.
The actual tabernacle, and later the temple, and the round of services which were conducted in it, was a continual object lesson to the children of Israel. A record of all this, even to the minutest details, has been preserved for us, not with the expectation that we should perform this same ritual, but in order that we might receive the same benefit from the written word as they received from the visible forms. From this standpoint the study of that portion of the Scripture which deals with the tabernacle and its services is full of interest and profit.
In Heb. 9: 2-7 we have a brief statement which covers the essential features of the tabernacle, its furniture, and its services, after which follows this important declaration: “The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holy place hath not yet been made manifest, while as the first tabernacle is yet standing; which is a parable for the time now present; according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices,” etc. It is not our purpose in this article to attempt to point out the full meaning of this great parable, but only to call attention to the leading idea around which the remainder of the teaching will naturally group itself.
A little thoughtful attention to the subject, and a general view of it, such as could be obtained by a connected reading of the whole record, will make it clear that the most important article of furniture in the tabernacle was the ark of the covenant, and that it derived its importance from the fact that the law of God was deposited in it. This law was first spoken by God’s own voice, and then written with his own finger upon the tables of stone, and by his own instruction it was placed in the ark built to receive it. All the services of the tabernacle had more or less direct reference to this law and man’s relation to it. The whole system was designed to be a revelation to Israel of the provision which God had made in the gift of his own Son for salvation from sin (“lawlessness.” 1 John 3: 4, R. V.), and for a life to be lived in harmony with his law. Those whose spiritual insight enabled them to put the great parable into words could read in advance the prophecy uttered through the psalmist: “Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I am come; in the roll of the book it is written of me: I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, thy law is within my heart.” Those who were able to look steadfastly “to the end of that which is abolished” could see in the tabernacle and its services a great fact-prophecy of the coming of the Messiah in the flesh to reveal the glory of God’s law, and to place man on such vantage ground that it would be possible for him to render perfect obedience to every provision of that law. “The Word became flesh, and dwelt [“tabernacled”] among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.”
And this experience of Christ was not for himself. “He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” The law of God was in the heart of him who stood for humanity, in order that it might be in the heart of every one who would receive him as a Saviour. And thus by the tabernacle and its services the new covenant promise was constantly kept before the children of Israel: “This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.” And thus was the gospel preached in days of old.
The Son of God knew his Father’s law as life. “I know that his commandment is life everlasting.” It is this living law, brought to us in the gift of Jesus to our flesh, enshrined within the living temple, written “not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart,” which delivers from sin, and enables us to reveal the glory of God. “The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
The law of God is the real heart of the great controversy to-day. The enemy of God and his kingdom, with the deepest hatred toward God’s law, has inspired in the minds of many men a contempt for it, and has spread abroadthe idea, pleasing to the natural heart, that it has been abolished or changed. And thus the law which is “holy, and just, and good,” has been represented as “an hard saying” which none are able to hear. It is just this state of things which emphasizes the need of a message to the world which shall restore God’s law to its rightful place in the hearts of men, and bring out a people of whom it may be said, “Here are they that keep the commandments of God.” But this must not be a message of self-righteousness through a fleshly obedience to any human conception of the meaning of God’s law. It must rather be a revival of the living law in the heart, a fresh inflow of the life of love, which will be revealed in a character so much after the divine model that men will take knowledge of those who reveal it, that they have been with Jesus. This will be the testimony that the law has been written in the heart.

Catholic Federation Seeks Political Influence in United States

By L. A. S.

THE Catholic Church in politics,—not secretly so, while professedly keeping aloof from it, but openly and avowedly in politics for Catholic ends,—this is the point that has now been reached in the history of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States.
There is to be a Catholic political federation, taking in all Catholic societies in general. It will not put a separate ticket in the field—just yet, but will “advise” the other parties in their choice of candidates, reminding each of these parties that the Catholic Church holds the balance of power in State and national elections. Here is the account from which we gather these statements. We take it from the Chicago Tribune of May 14:—
AURORA, ILL., May 13.—[Special.]—Steps were taken to-day by the convention of the Federation of Catholic Societies toward the organization of a “powerful combination to attend to national and State politics.”
The object of the combination is to prevent legislation derogatory to the influence of the institutions of the Catholic Church and the enactment of measures by the national or State governments calculated to limit the liberties granted under the Constitution. It is proposed to effect this “combination” through the unification of the Catholic societies of all nationalities on a political basis.
The resolutions, which were introduced by Father Hagan, of Belleville, instruct the chairman of the vigilance committee, Theodore B. Thiele, to place himself in communication with the various Catholic societies all over the United States with a view to effecting the proposed organization in the early future. As the best means to accomplish this end, the resolutions recommend the union of the chairmen of the vigilance committees of the various State organizations into an executive committee, which shall be vested with unlimited powers.
The proposed political organization will not nominate tickets, but will advise the platform makers what planks are agreeable or offensive to Catholics. It was declared in the convention that such a powerful defensive and offensive federation could bring success or defeat to either party. It is anticipated that before the next national election the reins of government will be controlled by the federation.
It was not denied by some of the leaders that if satisfaction could be obtained from neither party, eventually a Catholic national party would nominate a presidential ticket.
And now how long will it be before the Protestant churches of the country will follow suit?
SHALL the Jews of this country cease the observance of Saturday, and substitute in its place the observance of Sunday, in harmony with the custom of the Christian churches? This would be a startling innovation upon the time-honored religion of the Jews; yet the question is one that was seriously considered at the Jewish Central Conference of American Rabbis, recently in session at New Orleans. The reason for advocating the change was that the observance of the Sabbath had almost ceased among the male Jews, the congregations on the seventh day being composed almost wholly of women and children. The inconvenience of opposing the general custom of first-day observance, involving as it does considerable financial loss, has led the Jewish tradesman to look upon the keeping of the seventh day as a practice attended with almost insuperable difficulty. That very many Jewish tradesmen already sacrifice the Sabbath in preference to their Saturday trade, is well known by all, including the rabbis; hence the proposed innovation would involve, in very many cases at least, a change in profession rather than a change in practice. Religious sentiment exerted no influence whatever, what religious sentiment was shown in the conference touching this question being against the change, on the ground that the observance of Sunday might be construed as a token of Jewish allegiance to Christ. The change to first-day observance, if made, will be for convenience purely.
Should this change be made and become universal among the Jews, what, we might inquire, will become of the “Jewish sabbath”? Evidently there would then be no longer any foundation for this pet expression of those who oppose the keeping of the seventh day. Christian seventh-day keepers could no longer be stigmatized as Jewish, since the similarity will then be on the side of those adhering to the first-day institution.
Let the churches of this country take note that Christian Sabbath keepers have no thought of raising the question whether it may not be best to go over to Sunday observance, to save trouble, by siding with the majority. If they were Jewish, as their opponents represent, this is just what they would be now proposing to do. But because they are Christians, they have no thought of doing such a thing. They have no thought of sacrificing the Sabbath for any worldly consideration whatever. The really Jewish tendency to-day, as now demonstrated, is to observe the day which is most popular and convenient, which is the first day of the week. It is “Jewish” to be influenced more by popular custom, convenience, and financial gain than by the literal words of Jehovah’s law. Allegiance to the seventh day is not Jewish. L. A. S.

Sickles' Threat Against Newspapers Decried as Anarchy

At the annual dinner of the Third Army Corps union in New York City recently, after several speakers had severely denounced the newspaper censure of the conduct of the war in the Philippines, General Daniel Sickles, a veteran of the Civil War, in responding to a toast, gave utterance to this sentiment, which was greeted by his audience with cheers:—
As to that fashionable sheet which General Tremain mentioned, any time that two hundred and fifty old soldiers will get together and place themselves under my command, I will lead them in an effort to throw the whole concern into the gutter.
What else but anarchy is held up and indorsed by this utterance? What but anarchy would it be when a mob, led by a general of the Civil War or any other man, should set aside all law, from the national Constitution down to the law of the State and city in which they lived, and proceed to visit punishment of their own devising upon a newspaper company which had offended them, without even the forms of a trial? Such incidents reveal anarchy in its most dangerous form.

Note and Comment

“THE first world trust,” is the expression made by an Austrian journal with reference to the great transatlantic steamship combine. It appears, however, that the Standard Oil Trust comes considerably nearer than this to the idea of a world monopoly. According to a telegram from Berlin, dated May 2, a member of the German Tariff Commission declared at a session of that body that the Standard Oil Trust has now acquired control of every German dealer in petroleum, save two. “It is therefore able,” he said, “to prevent Russian, Rumanian, and Galician petroleum from successfully competing with the Standard oil.” He suggested bringing the refining industry to Germany as the only means of breaking the power of the “ring.”
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