The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-11-23

cling ideas. At most, such mon
could be only the tools and not the authors
OF conspiracy But wide reaching and
elaborate plot eXacts in its creator cool,
astutc and far-sightcd intellect. The very
existence Of Il powerful association attcsts
ability Of no mean order, which would, UNI
doubtcdly, adjust its operations to some
intclligiblc object, and certainly would not
commit series Of prcpostcrOus plumbers.
IL would be easy TO show that each Of the
attempts at assassination, with the possible
exception Of the attack on the King Of
Spain, was obviously detrimental to the
Socialist propaganda, and sure to provoke
a conservative reaction; and IL IS strange
inconsistency which at one time invests
CARL MARX and other founders of the So
called international with portcntOus
capacity OF mischief, and at another as
cribcs To them II more than childish faulty.
There have been demonstrations in history
whose results could be no less easily tore
told, and which. from the point Of view Of
the alleged conspirators, were at all events
no blundcrs. There can bc no question that
the death Of WILLIAM Of Orange deferred
the independence Of the Netherlands for
quarter of q century, and there l. reason to
believe that the troubles eliminating I'm the
Thirty Years War would have had an
earlier and very different issue but for the
dagger which cut short the life Of HENRY w.
In these cases the popular conviction which
made BALTA2AR GERARD and FRANCIS
lAvAILLAC the instruments Of u larger
purpose seemed justified by the speedy and
inevitable outcome Of their acts. On the
~. 4 M. ~ Al
attempts upon the life Of European sovcr-
cigns could work anything but injury.
not only to the Socialist. but also
to the Republican and Liberal cause For
supposiug llODEL or MODELLING had sue
cccdcd In the assault ON tho life of the
venerable Kaiser, either BISMARCK would
have remained In power with his former
spirit OF liberation and Cancellation toward
Socialists transformed rs we now sec it
into implacahlc hostility, or else the present
Crown Prince ON his accession to the throne
might lave placed In Office the Court party
opposed 10 the Chancellor which Is known
To be In many ways much less liberal than
BISMARCK, and to especially condemn his
concession OF universal suffrage In either
event, the measures Of repression would
have been still more rigorous and sweeping
than they now arc, while az it is the prog
re-s Of Socialist ideas in Germany has
been arrested for decade, perhaps for
generation, by the tide OF popular indig
nation
With the attempt at regicidc in Spain the
case is at First sight somewhat different 1t
may bc argued that the personal popularity
of ALrHoNso il the sole stay Of the Spanish
monarchy. and that his removal would have
cleared the way for the revival OF the rcpub-
lie Bat There is no evidence ~ hatcyer that
the act 81 the assassin was connected with
preparations fora general uprising in Re-
publican centres. yct without some prccon-
,ertcd plan of tai- Kind IL is manifest that
the crime must prove abouivc. The Con-
serva'vc- wDuliho left masters II thcarmy
and the State. vhilc the Republicans If in
decd the as-l-sn's work were traced to
them. would have assumed . wholly gratui-
tou- loaI Of odum.
Br; 10 Is th" assault upon KIM HuN8rRr
r, Naples which is specially incxpl cable on
auv ground but that Of insanity and which
from the point ~ view ~ Socialist interests
ilu-t needs -erm To- the organizers Of the
International Slci''y tlr climax of nh
-Inlty IL l- notorious that the ~ymra-
ta."- Ut King NUNnElr are enlisted as his
father never were. with the most progro--
-i>c wing oi the Republican party; that his
rir-rut Ministry i- drawn from the extreme
ir.t of the Italian Parliament; ant that $50
long Dos hc lives the whole weight of his iunu-
cncc l- likely 90 De thrown upon the side Of
those frrr Institutions most favorable 60 the
-rrcldot the SO ..0l.s, pr, pIsanda. Nothing
o. Nr D. Al I'd hs