New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-20

of violence which may he described as commit
ted under the cloak of politics For The Lon
don Times" that newspaper which may be re-
sarded as the very Approximation of British
responsibility and rrorricty. did not hesitate to
include among the most valued and honorcd
members of its stan a man who. under the liter
airy pseudonyme of "Stcpniak. disguised. but did
not attempt to conceal his real name Of kaZ-
chensky, which figures in the criminal annals OF
Russia as that of the murderer of the chief OF
the St Petersburg police, General Mesentzen
The latter was killed in the most cowardly man
ner by couple of stabs in the back on the par:
or Stepniak, who was afterward included by
Edmund Yates among his Celebrities at Home
In THE London World and finally came 10 a
violent end through being ground to pieces 10y Il
locomotive while walking along the tracks of u
railroad in the outskirts of London.
Another equally celebrated member Of the
staff OF The Times. who for many years
the special correspondent of that journal in the
United states, was the late Anthony GallenSa
vino. according to his own admission. travelled
all the way from Parma to Turin young
man for the express purpose OF assassinatng
King Charles Albert of Sardinia. a crime for
which he sentenced to death. only escaping
the fate 10y light to Boston. Yet the fact of his
having been implicated in this conspiracy. and
OF having plotted murder. the execution of
which was only prevented 10y the vigilance of
the Sandman police did not prevent Mr. Gal
lenga from becoming OF tho so-called am
bassadors'' of The London Times from
even attaining subsequently nigh political
honors in his native country.
EFFECT ON DISTORTED MINDS
Such things these calculated to warp
the views and principles of those who educated
beyond the station in life which they can reason
ably expect to attain. are already disposed to
regard their surroundings With a mind that can
only be described as distorted. Ii is exceedingly
difficult pCorlc this character who
frequently styled the "stepchdrcn Of society"
to define the exact line that separates crime
from political offence. They cannot but APP
prcciate the fact that the feons Of to-day are
often the martyrs and the heroes Of tomorrow.
and when they see the treatment accorded by
posterity to Orsini. who in an attempt to assas
sinate Napoleon III with a bomb killed and
wounded twenty-five people at Paris. and ODER
dank, who sought to murder the Emperor OF
Austria. both of whom are now extolled through
out Italy as patriots who sacrificed their lives
for their countrys good it is difficult to prevent
their running away with the firm conviction that
in the event of their killing some sovereign OF
the present time they WILL Notwithstanding the
eXecration which such an act would al first call
forth. be eventually raised by their fellow -coun-
trymen and 10y society to just as high pinnacle
OF popularity and regard any OF the men
above mentioned.
REVOLUTION AND CONSPIRACY.
revolution of the past has been preceded 10y acts
OF conspiracy and often of violence On the part
OF individuals who occupied toward Govern
ments OF their day much the same position
that in which the Anarchists, the Socialists, the
Irish Invincibles the Russian Nihilists, etc,
stand, and rcgicidcs are to n certain extent war
ranted and encouraged 10y the past to believe
that the legalizaton and justification OF their
crimes is almost always but question of time.
Indeed. the very condition of internatio in
tercourse tends to duh the moral sense of the
regicide and OF the political assassin with re
gard to the infamy of his offence. For, we
have above, England sheltered the muir
derer Stepniak from the Car, and declined to
surrender to France the fellow consprators OF
Orsn, on the ground that their crimes had been
OF political character and dictated by pa
triotism rather than by mere wickedness In
the same way France, in spite of her anxiety to
please Russia turned a deaf ear TO the demand
of the Car for the arrest and surrender Of Hart
man and those other Nihilsts who were con-
cerned In the attempt to blow to pieces the i'm
perial train Moscow, the consprators de-
stroying the wrong train and killing the ma
jority of its occupants. Irishmen indicted by
the English courts for dynamite outrages can
always rely upon protection from the English
police provided only they reach France: and