The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-04
KNIFE, BOMB AND PISTOL
ARE THE FAVoRITE WEAPONS OF
ANARCHISTS.
The Murder of Canovas Calls to Mind
Other Instances-Caesar was the
First Victim.

For the second time within five years
the attention of the world has been
fixed upon an assassin. The first was
when Iarnot, the French President,
was stabbed to death; the second the
murder of Premier Canovas, of Spain.
\ singular fact is that in both instan-
ces the assassin was a native of an
other country, and his visit to the
place of his crime was for the express
purpose of committing the deed which
plunged nation into mourning.
1t Is often said that with the adj
vance of the world comes the deterio-
ration of those methods which SAVIOR of
savagery and absence of anything like
justice in the law. Yet history shows
us that assassination is like an i'm
mortal viper, that, crushed to earth,
will sooner or later raise its head and
instill its poison into the veins of an
other victim. Canovas is declared to
be the victim of the International AS
ISOLATION of anarchists. it is alleged
that the assassin, Coli of Angioilo,
was delegated by lot at a meeting of
the Central Association of Anarchists
in London to kill Canovas. The same
statement was made at the time of the
death of Carnot.
1T follows, then, disguise it as we
may, that an association of murder
ers exists, just as that one existed
which decreed that Caesar should die
by the hand of Brutus. If one will
but stop to think he will see that
there is another institution of the Ro-
man Empire which has come down to
us as healthy,an fullfedged as in the
days when the yellow Tiber paid a
ceaseless tribute to the City of the
Seven Hills that ruled the world Gaze
sar was the first statesman of whom
history tells the story of assassina-
ton. Canovas is the last.
In the centuries which INTERVIEWED
between these two crimes, the hand OF
the assassin has been busy. Look at
the list: Thomas a Beckett, Emperor
Albert l. of Germany, James l. OF
Scotland, Allessandro de Medci, Car.
dinal Beaton, David Rizzio, Lord Darn
ley, the Earl of Murray, regent OF
Scotland; William of Orange, Henry
Ill. of France, the Duke of Bucking
ham, Wallenstein, Archbishop Sharp
Gustavus LII. of Sweden; Marat, the
tyrant of the Revolutions; Gen. Kleber
Gar Paul of Russia, the Duke of Par
ma, Abraham Lincoln, Sultan Abdul
Aziz, Gar Alexander II. of Russia
President Garfield Lord Frederick
Cavendish and T. II. Burke. at Phoeni,
park; President Carnot.
These by no means constitute
complete list of those who have fal
len victims to fate and circumstances
They are merely those who held higl
places on the roll of fame. and who's,
power over others was so great, thei
positions such, that to murder then
would create terror; or persons who's
rigid idea of what their cause require,
was productive of torture and othe
evils to those whom their assassin
represented.
Caesar was the victim of jealousy
although Brutus had fancied griev
ance. Canovas' death was the drec
result of the execution of the anar
chists at Barcelona, after tortures tina
seem almost incredible, but are nov
vouched for by authorities which can
not be lightly set aside.
Coming over the list of assassin,
tons of famous persons, the fact be
comes evident that three weapons ar
the favorites of the assassins-th
knife, the pistol and the bomb. Thes
three were occasionally supplements,
by poison, but as rule held their pla
ces as favorites.
Passing over the earlier assassina
tons the most notable is found in tn
sixteenth century when Henry w. o
France, one of the most beloved o
monarchs, was killed by Ravillac,
tool of the Order of Jesuits, a religion
body that was the most implacable en-
envy that the French monarch hat
Nineteen times had Henry's life bee
attempted, but it was not until Ma
IA, 1910, that the plot against him ha
reached a successful elimination. TIL
people of Paris punished the assassi
themselves in the most frightful mar
ner, for they fairly tore him to pieces
The one assassination which all hi:
torians in a measure justify, was tn
stabbing to death of Jean Paul Ma
rat by Charlotte Corday, July 10, 179
His assassination was during what