Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-08-12
PRESS COMMENTS.
Death Spared the Premier the
Inevitable Humiliation of a
Failure.

Failure.
London, Aug. 9.-The Daily
News, in an editorial on the assas-
sination of Canovas, says:
"The deed follows quickly on
the pious invocatlons to England
as the classic land of liberty, ut
tered by the exiled Spanish anar-
chists on their arrival at Liverpool.
These are anarchist words. On
the other hand, the killing is one
of their acts. 1t is impossible to
draw any moral but one, hat the
militant anarchist is a beast of
prey, without even a beasts dis
elimination"
Commenting on the inability Of
Senior Canovas to deal with the
formidable task in Cuba, the Daily
News says:
"Death, after all, has dealt
kindly by him in relieving him of
the personal humiliation of an in
evitable failure. The instruction,
if it makes no progress, at least
marks time, and the United States
is beginning to talk of a time limit
for the other side, Brave words
and even brave deeds will hardly
meet a difficulty of this sort, un-
less they are right and wise ones
as well. The future is dark for
Spain. A bnrbarous murder has
removed one of the few men able
to carry on the Queen Regents
government amid awful difficult
ties. Italy has again supplied the
executive agent of the behests of
anarchy. She deserves our con-
dolence almost more than does
Spain"
The Times says editorially ::
''The crime appears to be an act
of anarchist revenge for the IKE
cution of the Barcelona %conspira-
tors. The anarchists have given
mankind one more reason to re-
gard them as the implacable enemy
of their race. Spain loses in
Senior Canovas del Castillo the
best and most capable of her states
men,"
The Daily Chronicle say s: awe
cannot find words to express our
horror of the act. It's lesson is
that the mere suppression of an
archy by force is no cure. Spain
needs reform, and unless reform
comes there is reason to fear the
repetition Of such crimes. The
act is a dire blow to the cause of
freedom. 1t will arouse all the
forces of reaction, and Will tie the
Gar and the Kaiser more closely
together in a desire to repress all
reasonable liberty"
The Standard says:
"The crime is calculated to lead
the revolted colonies and foreign
powers to believe that the hostility
to the Spanish constitution and
government is greater than that
which really exists. They will
choose to see in 1t a proof that
is a house divided aga n t
itself, and a prey to internal dis
5entions, and, therefore, less to be
feared. In a conflict such as the
one in which Spain is now unfor-
tunately engaged, it would be re-
grettable for many reasons should
such an idea become generally
prevalent among Spain's enemies
u rivals
A week ago the French news
paper Courier de Lyon published
IN interview with an Italian anar-
,hist, who said be was going to
London to see the Spanish anar-
and that within d few days
he world would be astoundcd by
IN event resembling the death of
Garnet.
The Spanish anarchist refugees
rom Barcelona, now in London,
IN being questioned this evening
the subject of the assassination
If Canovas, declared that the muir
lerer had nothing to do with
Rinaldi (or Ranladi) they as
'erted is quite unknown.
One of them said: "All our
Methods are constitutional"
They admitted, however, that
hey could not be expected greatly
deplore the death of the man
'esponsible for the fortunes that
lad been inflicted ON them, but
hey reiterated their assertion that
he act was the work OF a solitary
without accomDIicaS.