The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-01
70 call upon the National Guard fos assist
AxAKcHGsM THE ASsAssIN Or
FK4G GOvE8NNxNI.


Spain and France ars treating MI am
asehists ~ the enemies Of mankind- Ger
many has adopted the policy Of excinnon.
and Norway and Sweden are increasing
politics, precautions against them. Aus
tria has taken steps looking 30 the same
end, and even Engiand has given orders
10 the Wild beasts to ess out The result
wiz b that " look for swarm Of them
in America
On the Iith uik, in New York city, .
meeting vas hsld 70 commemorate the -
sassination Of Alexander the Second Of
Russia which was addressed BY Herr
Most. The speaker spoke Of the 'sxecu-
ton" Of Alexander, Just ~ Guiteau spoke
Of the removal" of Garfield. Most called
Alexander . modern Csiiguls and pre-
dicted the assassination Of the present Al
exander Of Russia, and rallied against e.
tablished governments of every kind. -
well a. the institution Of property. all OF
which he said we're inconsistsnt with the
idea OF sshs social revolution"
The only effect Of this dynamite and
dagger method Of reforming misgovern-
ment will be to retard rather than hasten
the advance Of despotism TO constitutional
government, and to force free govern
ments, like those Of England and the
United States. 70 become more centralized
in form and to seek more security for life
and property. even at the cost Of little
less liberty under law.
The FIRST Napoleon and Bismarck both
comprehended these anarchists perfectly,
and handled thsm without mercy. Both
saw clearly that they were not philan-
thropic cranks but lawiess malignants.
Napoleon dispersed the anarchists of the
commune with Whit Of grapeshot, and
he sent the malignant anarchists who
sought to be assassins TO execution. The
result Vas. under nearly twenty ysars Of
Nspoleon's rule, after the Paris mob and
the anarchist assassins found out Of what
kind Of stuff he was made. they concluded
that tranquility was the best policy. So
Bismarck; he saw clearly that the radical
socialists were malignants. and he treated
them With sanitary severity 20 long A. he
held the reips Of power.
With men who discuss mere forms of
government we can always allow the larg-
est liberty OF agitation. but when men de-
clare against any and ali government and
proceed to end all debate by throwing
bombs at their fellow men, il 10 time to
treat them not ~ political agitators and re-
formers, but ~ wild beasts, the enemies Of
all mankind. because they are the enemies
of all government; they would have
'no government" for the same reason that
any indolent rufian prefers "no govern
ment" to any form of government which
is strong enough to rob him of his life and
liberty when he ''turns himself loose" -
robber and murderer. Alexander the Sec
ond Of Russia who Was cruelty murdered
by these fcrocious anarchists. emancipated
millions Of serfs with single stroke of his
pen: he was the most progressive ruler
Russia had ever had since the days Of
Catherine the Second. The nihilists
frightened him out OF his libersl mood,
and then murdered him. and his successor
has been confirmed in his absoiutism BY
the outragcs of the nihilista
The only result that political assassin q.
tion can possibly accomplish Is to make .
bad matter worse or force free govern
ments to contract their freedom, for Sc
curi,y Of life. liberty and property under
law 10 what the great mass Of mankind
care most about. and they know that some
government Is necessary to secure this;
therefore the great mass Of mankind hate
and ioathe tho ferocious fool who breaks
up oil debate concerning forms Of govern.
ment by fiinging bomb into the crowd.
killing all the friends Of law and order and
running away with the cry Of mo gov
ernmsnt."