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TO DEIilVEK THE WEAK,
JOHN CLARK fUDPATH'3 STUDY OF
THE "MESSIANIC INSANITY."
A Delusion l'reilrnt Among Oppressed
l'iiillr mill Ituces llrsiMiilitniirn f the
Noiidunrse Agitation I11 tlm IVrmcitt nt
the Slou timer lit Inns.
Copyright ty American Press Assiclntlon,l
How sad nro tho delusions of tho liutnnn
rnei'l Among these notio Ih sadder, nono
tnoro fatal, tlmn that form of ethnic in
Minlty wlilt-h expects n Messianic deliverer.
It Is a kind of tribal or race disease which
nrlliets tliu mind, just or a physlcul nuilndy
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nttneks tho body anil destroys life. The
wild cni7oof tho Indians of tho western
plains ami mountains furnishes a striking
example of tho character and effects of
tills fearful disease.
Tho law of human history Is that when
any trlivwor races of men aru hurtl driven
by u certain kind of distress an excited and
highly morbid expectation of n Messiah ap
pears among them. When It has once ap
peared it runs Its course like a contagion.
Tho delusion sely.es all classes, and all aru
Insnno together. Tho first tiling to lw
noted about such a fact is that It requires
certain peculiar forms of distress to pro
duce it.
It cannot ho doubted that tho principal
antecedent of tho Messianic insanity is tho
oppression of one, racu by another. This
cause is always requisite to bring on tho
ethnic paroxysm, Without this condition
tho belief in a phenomenal deliverance by
a savior nuver nrlses. No other kind of
distress will produce, It. There may lw
carthqunko and pestilence, ravages by lira
ntid deluge, but these things nro not mi 111
clent of themselves to engender tho de
lusion. Tho Messiah Is always expected in j
llio cunracier or a raco uenveror, n is mu
heavy hand of one raco pressing upon tho
breast of another, with the consequent
sense of suffocation and despair, that pro
duces tho delirious dream of a m'raculuus
salvation
Hut while the oppression of one raco by
another ii tho primu cause of tho delusion,
hunger and famine, either present or ex
pected, ate the occasion. Famine alone Is
uotMilllclcnt to bring on tho fever. Men
may die of starvation; whole tribes an I
kindreds rimy suffer or even perish from
hunger and thirst, and yet give no sign of
tho Messianic delusion. It Is only when
tho house of raco degradation Is present
that famine cries out for the Christ.
Tho second thing to bo observed Is that
the Messiah Is always olio of tho sulTcring
raco. Ho Is not a deliverer from nhrond,
hut ono of tho oppressed. Moses and the
Christ nro ever of tho down trodden trilia.
No other than tho puro seed of slaves is
worthy to lift them up; nonllcu can bo tho
swift coming avenger, the warring evangel
of hope and restoration to tho tribes about
to perish.
There is In all this a kind of logic tho
logic of insanity. The broken syllogisms
run thus through tho fevered brnln. We
are oppressed by tho strong and tho wick
ed. They nro invnders and aliens, for tho
land was ours aforetime, and our fathers'.
It is ours yet, and will ho ever. We have
tried to free ourselves by battle, to save
ourselves by war but tho oppressor was
strong and slow our people. Therefore Is
ho unjust. Hut thuro must bo a deliver
ance, and hence a deliverer. Lo, ho comes
quickly, and his vengeance and his reward
nro with him. The good Christ will Ihi one
of us. He will be on our side. He will
love us and hate our enemies. He will
light our buttles nnd the proud shall lie
low lieforo him. Heboid wo starve. Tho
children of our people nro dying for food,
but tho deliverer will bring us plenty. Ho
will take from tho haughty who have de
spoiled us their storehouses full of wheat,
their vineyards and their cattle. Let us
watch for his comltig, for he will appear
to-morrow.
In this form and with this feverish
dreaming, the delusivo hope of n Messiah
has returned in many ages and among
many peoples. It is one of thoso miscon
ceived phenomena which have led men to
believe and say in the language of tho
aphorism that history repeats Itself. The
saying is not true; but it Is true in part.
That Is, it seems to bo true just as tho
retrograde movement among the planets
ono of these recurring phenomena, and tho
delusion has cost mankind a eouslilerablo
fraction of Its sorrow. In tho lastdeoailo
wo linvo hail two notable Instances of this
strange raco delirium. Ono of tluuu has
Ikh'Ii witnessed on tho scene ot tho widest
civilization of mankind, and tho other on
our own western plains tho ono In Egypt
and the other In America. Tho reader may
well ls astonished to noto tho analogy of
tho Egyptian iril tho Indian Messiah
It wns iiIkiuI tho year I WO that tho nnmo
of tho .Vahdl that Is, tlm Arable Christ of
uper Eg)pt-legan to Is) seen In tho
iiuwspapers of .he western nations. Hut
who wnstho Muhdlf The historical notes'
of tho east abound with references to his
iirnito. At tho bottom lies a Mohammedan
superstition which runs back almost to tho
days of tho Prophet. Tho third enllph of
the house of Abbas was called El Malidl
that Is, the Messiah. Afterward tho term
was adopted by tho Shllto scctns tho lintno
of their expected deliverer. In tho yenr 8T11
the twelfth of the Imams, named Ahul
Kasslm, mysteriously disappeared, but the
Shlltes never accepted his death as u fait
Their belief In his reappearance ns tho
leader nnd avenger of his people is to tho
prexeiil day somewhat similar to that of
tho (Icrrnnn peasants who hold to tho tra
dition that Frederic Harbarossa still sits
nodding In tho cave of Salzburg, and will
coma rorth when I'lunorianu is eiiuau
gored. From this superstitious germ tho
delusion spread, and throughout tho Mo
hammedan empire the Ignorant and Infat
uated are ever ready to say, "Lo, hcrol" or
"Lo, therel"
Sometimes several eastern mahdls havo
appeared at once. In IKS'J there were at
least three pretenders of this character.
Tho Mahdl El Sonusl appeared In Tripoli,
another led tho ignorant in Aldln, and tho
third, namely, the Sheik Mohammed of
Dongola appeared in tjio Egyptlnn Soudan
as the true El Mahdl. He It was who,
when Arabl Pasha was leading what prom
ised to bo a successful national revolution
in lower Egypt, headed tho wild natives of
the Soudan In a war for deliverance from
foreign domination. Tho fanatical Sou
danese gathered by thousands to his Mes
slanlo Winner, and It was by tho swords of
his followers that "Chinese" Gordon was
hacked to death In the streets ot Khar
toum.
To tho student of history It must seem
strange, indeed, that, such a personage as
Mohammed El Mahdl, pretending to the
Messianic leadership of his people and
eagerly welcomed by them as such, march
ing from village to village across tho waste
CONTESTING OOYD'8 SEAT,
In
The I'm mem' Alllunen Mali Claims
Hit r.leolrd tlovuriior of Neliniiliu,
Experienced political prophets predict
that John II. Powers, tho Farmers' Alll
nnco candidate, will bo tho next, governor
of Nebraska, although the Democratic
nominee hasn plurality of 1,1 1 ton tho facu
of tho tettirns. Tho stale had always been
overwhelinlnitlv Republican, but at tho re
cent election tho Democrats cast 7l,f!ll
votes for governor, tho Farmers' Alliance
70,187, and tho Republicans (W.HTR
The Alliance has taken steps to inako n
legal contest Jortho governorship. There
-r . nro many speclll-
W07Vn cations In Its fop
the chief charges
nro intlmlilation
A. M. DAVIS & SON,
Fall and Winter
Carpets and Draperies,
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55ft? rjfc Y'aI n certain polling
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the Personal
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the lees for uatiir
11II7.I111; 'J.POO for
clgu horn voters
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seems to be retrogression. It Is not true
that human events ever come around
again to where they started. That wero
Indeed impossible. It is not true that our
race "runs in a circle," returning ever
Into Its old track. It Is not true that tho
general aspjet of history In any age is tho
aspect that 'jxisted in any former ago. It
is not true, Ml a word, that a given form of
man life on the earth will ever recur again,
Hut it Is true that when certain special
conditions are piesent in a given ago and
among a given people those condition
will be attended with consequences which
may alwayy Isi expected with the certainty
of the calculus when tho same conditions
arise in other centuries and among other
races. This it is that gives to history tho
prlnclpia of science.
The expectancy of a Messiah has K-en
JEpli Sli JArfelJLStfSl ifcDvjk
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"WIIKltK IIAIIIIAIIO.SSA HUH NODIIINO
places of the rainless Soudan, should have
reappeared as the psendo Christ of the
Sioux among the rocks of the Had Lands
and In tho ghost dances of the plains,
John Clauk Hiupatii.
THE TUNNEL AT PORT HURON.
Soiui-llilni; About tlm Men Who Hud
Cliiirg" of th Work.
Sir Joseph Ilobson and T. E. Hillmnri
are two men who have accomplished n
great engineering feat tho building of a
mile tunnel with four miles of approaches
under the St. Clair river nt Port Huron.
x. a irs x m:
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In Omaha, such payment being held to ho
of the nature of bribery. If tho votes ol
the preclncla In question I mi thrown out It
will give Mr. Powers n clear plurality of
the votes. The contest will he decided by
the- legislature and the Alliance him a
majority in both houses,
Mr. Powers was lsinr In Madison county,
Ills., In ISHt. Roth parents were from New
England, Three years later they took n
Kqunttci's claim In Ia Salle county, Ills,,
and bought It when put on the market.
For a number of years, beginning at the
age of 'JO, Mr, Powers alternated teaching
district school In winter with farming In
summer, In August, lBO'J, he enlisted as a
private In tho Ono Hundred and Fourth
regiment Illinois Infantry, and was honor
ably discharged because of sickness. In
1H71I ho took up homestead and live claims
In Hall county, Neb. Irr IbHH lie sold out
and took up a farm In the extreme south
western part of tho state, where ho now ro
sides. Mr. Powers is president of tho Stale
Farmers' Alliance, which fact undoubted
ly won Ii I ilk Ids nomination, He has been
supervisor In Illinois and In Nebraska,
These are the only political olllce.i ho has
held, hut hols a representative farmer ol
rugged honesty and good hard sense.
DISAGREEMENT AT CONCORD.
New lluiiiishlri .Politicians I'.ngageil In
I'tirplexlng Argument.
There Is u lively struggle In progress at
tho capital of w
Hampshire, and
the storm center
for some days has
been around Dr.
d'allingcr, ex-congressman
and now
candidate for the
United States sen
atc, to sit cuoed
Senator HI air.
Mr. Hlnlrof course
desires to succeed
himself. The
great struggle has
been over the con
trol of tho legis
lature, and it in
volves so many
Issues that only an
expert on the ground can understand their
merits.
These nro as to whether men who served
as census enumerator nro "federal olllce
holders," and therefore disqualified as
meinhirs; whether men who moved out ol
their districts are still qualified if they do
claro their Intention to move hack; whether
the towns aru entitled to representation
according to this year's census, and, most
of all, whether tho deputy clerk of tho last
leglslaturu shall rnaku up the roll nf the
next, tho chief clerk having moved to an
other state and resigned. On the deter
mination of these It depends whether Dem
ocrats or Republicans shall control
Dr. Gnllluger and his supporters nrc
eiirnostly opposed to tho policy .rncoiu
mended by Senator Chnniller, and refuse
to Join in all tho measures proposed by
their fellow Republicans, and this adds
another element of uncertainty. Tho gov
ernor convened the legislature (which has
n legal existence till the constitutional date
for the ono chosen in November to meet),
nnd the first struggle was on the right ol
that legislature to adopt unusual measures
to prevent trouble when the next one meets,
thcGnllingcr party of Republicans U-Inu
classed as the "moderates."
Dr.H. S. Aley, Specialist
In FEMALE, NERYOUS and KIDNEY DISEASES.
Nierliilalleiilloii paid to the treatment of these illneases
by means nt electricity.
All iiou-mallgnaut Million of the womb removed without
the line of Hie kiilre.
A II operations lor Injuries from childbirth skillfully per
fin Mini.
Illnlilaeeiiieut of (lie numb cured III moat eii'ies without
the uaoor InstiuuiculK.
Ilpllepsv, Ht. Vitus' Daiieo, rielallea. Neuralgia, Hysteria,
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forms of Ner oils Trouble successfully treated.
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Mich. Tho work was commenced over a
yenr ago and is now completed. Tho tunnel
has no counterpart in this country, !ciiig,
iu fact, simply an Iron tube 0,000 feet long
and SO feet in diameter. It will bo used by
the railroads, nnd will bo opened for traffic
In a short time.
Sir Joseph Hobson, tho man who planned
the tunnel, was a railroad builder In Can
nila and the United States until 1870. He
was the rcsldcut engineer of tho Interna
tional bridge at HulTnlo, and was rcsponsi
Jilo for Its successful construction, -Following
that ho was made chief engineer for
the Grand Trunk railway of Canada, and,
hacked by that company and tho govern
ment, ho built the Port Huron tunnel. He
is a Canadian by birth ami is about 55
years old. To T. K, Hillmaii is duo tho
credit of the actual work of building the
tunnel. He lives at Sarnla, Ont., and is
50 years old.
Th I'lesldent mid the Mormon.
President Harrison narrowly escapes
being humorous in portions of his mes
sage, and especially iu tho paragraph re
lating to the Mormons. Ills suggestion
that though they profess to have aban
doned polygamy they still regard it as di
vine, nnd tliat, therefore, "thoso who Ihj
Hove it to be rightful should not have the
power to make it lawful," Is very neatly
and happily expressed. It Is a fact over
looked by many voters that n state could
establish any marriage system it chose
and tho general government havo no power
to Interfere as it has in a territory.
H. W.
DRUGGSIl
BROWN
anFBOOKSELLER
They make "single blessedness" a costly
luxury iu Venezuela. Kvery unmarried
man oer 15 is required to pay an iucoruo
tax of 1 per cent, on an income of not
.more than $5,000, or 2 per cent. If his In
come exceeds that amount.
It is said that a hundred writers havo
written Gladstone's life and are simply
waiting for his death In order to rush into
print with the "only authorized edition"
of the great statesman's blogrnph).
i:cry family Ha an Isiiiic.
"Mrs. Partington's" nuxlctlesnndpertur
Imtlons have served'to amuse millions, for
the American prei-j gave wide circulation
to her "felicitous Infelicities of speech."
They long divided honor and applause
with tho airy paragraphs and sharp wit
of George I). Prentice. "Ike," tho Irre
pressible and very human boy, was a live
ly prese ice in thousands of households nt
n time when John Godfrey Saxc, Mortimer
M. Thompson ("Doestlcks") and Capt,
George Horatio Derby were convulsing a
continent with their quips anil quirks, odd
whims or whimsical oddities.
Tho century renowned dramatic, proto
typo of this species of misunderstood and
misunderstanding feminine was assuredly
not tho model chosen by our homo bred
humorist. Richard Hrinsloy Sheridan's
Mrs. Malaprop was nil egotistic, gaudily
dressed, well bestowed, Imperious and ef
fusively aristocratic ignoramus, who had a
good heart and a weak head. Name and
idea may Iwth hnvo been Iwrrowed by Hu
morist Shillabcr, but his creation of "Mrs.
Partington" is none tho loss unique or dis
tinctive. "Iko" is n literary creation fnr
beyond all other prankish boys that grin
from tiie pages of modern books. He is
natural iu his mischief, nnd acts like an
impulsive youngster ahvnys does when ho
has too much play time and too many
tempth.g opportunities. Kvery family
that boasts of Its half dozen active, healthy
boys has one or two Isaacs in the house,
and they are too wldo awako to nod In
broad daylight.
The Churm of Gen, llootb's Hook.
One charm of Gen. Hooth's recently pub
lished book, "In Darkest Kngl.md," Is the
frankness with which he treats of all other
schemes of reform Christian socialism,
land nationalism and the like. He has a
good word for all of them nnd one criti
cismthey look ton distant future. Ho
'frankly confesses that ho cannot work that
way he wants to help those who are In
misery now, no matter whether it Is their
fault or not. And, nnother unusual pro
ceeding for his class, he flatly declares tliat
In a majority of cases tho misery Is largely
the fault of tho miserable. Hcuce-nnd
tills is the strong element In his book wu
mast attack tho evil physically and spirit
ually at the sauio time. All schemes work
ing on ono sldu only of man's nature will
fall as all bitch have failed.
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