Published in 1890 Cæsar's Column takes place in 1988 New York in a rotten society that has
lost its morals. The main narrator Gabriel Welstein is a visitor from the Swiss colony of
Uganda a utopian agricultural society. He reveals he has come to the U.S. to avoid the global
Wool Ring which has monopolized the commodity. In the city Gabriel intervenes to save a
beggar who is actually an attorney and a part of a brotherhood that works to destroy the
corrupt ruling class. Most of the book is in the form of letters that Gabriel writes to his
brother Heinrich. The intriguing story deals with the writer's thoughts on society politics
and the concept of social Darwinism. He brilliantly portrayed a man who came from a rural
background to the heart of a ruthless capitalist oligarchy witnessed its corruption firsthand
and noticed its collapse.
