XI. BELIAL ON THE JUDGMENT SEAT 145 XII. THE WORST TREASON OF ALL 151 PART III.--HAMSTRUNG CÆSARISM AS A REMEDY I. DESPAIRING DEMOCRACY 159 II. THE TSAR-MAYOR 165 III. THE CHARTER OF GREATER NEW YORK 171 IV. GOVERNMENT BY NEWSPAPER 179 V. WHY NOT TRY THE INQUISITION? 189 VI. THE PLEBISCITE FOR A CÆSAR 197 VII. THE FIRST MAYOR OF GREATER NEW YORK 211 APPENDIX 214 INDEX 217 [Illustration: THE JANITRESS OF THE LAND OF LIBERTY.] “SATAN’S INVISIBLE WORLD DISPLAYED”; OR, DESPAIRING DEMOCRACY. PART I. THE GATEWAY OF THE NEW WORLD. CHAPTER I. LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD. The entrance to the harbour of New York is not unworthy its position as the gateway--the ever open gateway--of the New World. And the colossal monument raised by the genius of Bartholdi at the threshold of the gateway is no inapt emblem of the sentiments with which millions have hailed the sight of the American continent. The harbour, though guarded by great guns against hostile intruder, and infested by the myrmidons of the Customs, is nevertheless an appropriate antechamber of the Republic, from whose never-dying torch stream the rays of Liberty enlightening the world. Over the great lagoon-like waters flit the white-winged yachts--the butterflies of the sea--dancing in the rays of the rising sun. On shore the luxuriant foliage of the trees betrays but here and there the hectic flush that portends the glories of the Indian summer. The islands, as emeralds in the setting of the sea, are a doubly welcome sight to eyes which for days past have seen nothing but the heaving billows of the broad Atlantic. Here and there, flecking with colour the sunlit scene, flutter the Stars and Stripes. Far away in the West, faintly audible in the distance, come the multitudinous sounds of the awakening seaport. The great Liner, which shuddered and throbbed for three thousand miles as it forged five hundred miles a day across the sea, is gliding smoothly and softly as a gondola towards the Venice of the Western World. Except when approaching the Golden Horn, no more beautiful scene greets the traveller on approaching a great capital than that presented by the entrance to the harbour of New York. And right in the centre of the fair vision stands the Bartholdi monument, with its gigantic figure hailing the pilgrims from the Older World with the glad welcome of the New. What more appropriate janitress of the Land of Liberty?