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

FAILURE.
London, Aug. e.-The Daily
News, in an editorial on the assas-
sination of Canovas, says:
"Ihe deed follows quickly on
the pious invocations to England
as the classic land of liberty, ut
tered by the exiled Spanish anar-
chists on their arrival at Liverpool.
Those r anarchist words. On
the other hand, the killing is one
of their acts. 1t is impossible to
draw any moral but one, that 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, I'M
less they are right and wise ones
as well. The future is dark for
Spain. A barbarous 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 exc
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 says: eve
cannot find words to express our
horror of the act. It's lesson ia
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
Spain is a house divided against
itself, and a prey to internal dis
s%entions. 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
or rivals"
A week ago the French news
paper Courier de Lyon published
an interview with an Italian anar-
chist, who said he was going to
London to see the Spanish mar
chists, and that within a few days
the world would be astounded by
event resembling the death of
Carnot.
The Spanish anarchist refugees
from Barcelona, now in London,
on being questioned this evening
on the subject of the assassination
of Canovas, declared that the muir
.erer had nothing to do with
Rinaldi Cor Ranladi) they as
serted is quite unknown.
One of them said: "All our
are constitutional
They admitted, however, that
hey could not be expected greatly
to deplore the death of the man
responsible for the tortures that
lad been inflicted on them, but
hey reiterated their assertion that
he act was the work of a solitary
Individual without accomplices,