Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-28
Training school. for Assassins-


philosophy, or the cooper. Whether
Old, like William Of Germany, or young.
like Alfonso Of Spain. or Humbert of
Italy, kings are diAleult game 70 bring
down Oh the wing. Even when md.
died With small shot - vas The aeed
monarch Of the Fatherl.nd, they viii
not die, and when they ere merely
scratched in the arm, - 10 the King oe
Italy, they draw their swords md do
liver their asaailants into the hands of
the police, and ssraitvay into those of
the executioner. The dagger. vhich
has proved 90 effective 1t the heed-
quarters Of the sscrut police in Ruasia.
10 - poor tool - Q revolver OF . gun
when directed against king. Yet - II
strange that in this year Of grace, which
marks Q Transition stage from IN Old
Europe to New Europe. tn Aaahing
Of MEDIEVAL dagger should be Sen in
Naples. This has bean IN Annus Mira
bills. 1t has witnessed the dismember-
ment Of the Ottoman Empire. the
deaths Of Victor Emanuel and Pins
Ninth, the development Of revolution
ary tendencies in Germany and Russia,
the triumph Of French Republicanism
and Q radical transformation OF Eneiish
policy. Old figures are disappearing
and new forces are already at work;
and yet here, in the very spirit OF the
Middle Age, is the cleaning OF the -.
sassin's steel in an Italian city.
The italian pastry-cook did not like
kings; neither did the Spanish cooper;
yet is the scene in Naples far more
striking than the scene in Madrid.
Each has boosted that lie was an inter-
nationalist and had no accOmplices, but
one represented few besides himself,
while the other. as the probabilities 60,
did what many Of his cOuntrymen were
anxious to have some one do. There
are latent elements of discord and dis
loyalty in Northern Spain and in q few
of the central cities, but there are no
indications that the Internationalists
have made any progress since 1873,
when branches of the society were Or
ganized in Barcelona and Carthagena.
Alfonso kept his troth in spite of the
opposition OF the Queen Mother and
his Cabinet, and r,arried Princess
with whom he seemed really to have
fallen in love; and when she died, few
months after the wedding, his grief
touched the hearts of his subjects. So
firm is his hold upon the affections OF
his people that the Ministry have al.
ready convinced themselves that Mon.
cast, the cooper, is almost his only en-
envy. and have decided not to ask for
any extraordinary legislation against
the secret juntas known to exist in
Catalonia. But if there is one, and
possibly only one dangerous king
hater in Spain, there are many in Italy.
Only month ago the students OF Leg.
horn established political society
which took its name from the Universi-
ty assassin, Karl Nobiling; and in the
programme of the club its mission was
proclaimed: ''to combat the three hide.
Gus superstitions represented by the
words authority capital, and God"
A group of revolutionary societies,
moreover, have been formed in vari-
Gus cities under the common name of
Pietro Barsanti clubs, AMI one of these
associations was to have been formally
organized &C Naples on the very day of
the entry OF the King and Queen in the
course Of their royal progress through
Southern Italy to Rome. PIetro Bar
santi was private soldier who under
took to assassinato his commander, and
the avowed object of these revolution
airy clubs was the subversion of disci-
pine in the italian Army. While the
secret police are not only efficient but
over Jealous, there has been unbounded
license of speech, not only in respect
to the liberation of Trieste and the
Trentino, but to all the evils OF the
present administration. These anar-
chical tendencies and proceedings have
been connived at and in some instances
fomented by members Of the Cabinet.
Giovanni tassanante may have had no
confederates, but lie has carried to their
logical results the teachings of many
revolutionary schools.
By strange coincidence the man
who sat in the carriage with the young
King and was wounded in the thigh
when he seized the assassin, was Signor
Carroll, the Prime Minister, a Radical
of the Radicals. When the present
Cabinet was formed it was known that
its chief shared many OF the Socialist
views Of Garibaldi, but it was supposed
that official station would induce mod.
Grafton. In o recent speech at Pavia
he took pains to announce that the
Government would not suppress any
associations whatever might be their
tendency, and made some demagogic
appeals in behalf OF the working Glasses
and the suffering poor. Alarmed by
this speech as well as by the lax pro-
ceedings OF the Minister of the Interior,
three members of the Cabinet rendered
their designations; and it was to face q
Parliamentary crisis this week that
Signor Carroll was accompanying the
King from Naples to Rome. It may
be the pastry.c cook has done the Prime
Minister good turn. The incident
before the gates of the city may con.
vince him that Bismarck's method of
dealing with Socialism is more reason
able than Garibaidi's. He may have o
Red DOGGY before his eyes in future
N. Y. Tribune.
Shere Ali devoutly replies to Lord
Lytton, the British Viceroy in India:
You may do your worst; the issue is
in Gods hands," This looks "a IL the