New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-11
CRIME AGAINST MANkIND.


Anarchy once more declares itself the creed OF
hell. More than any denunciaton ever uttered
against it by its adversaries. more than the
darkest picture of It ever drawn by those VINO
hate it and who fear its sway, It's own deeds
pillory it forever as an invention of the devil
and as thing for which there can be no for
giyeness. with which there can be no parley,
and 10 which there can be given no quarter. Or
those deeds. hideous as they have often been,
the latest. which we record this morning with
emotions Of sorrow and detestation, Is easily the
worst. The Staying of the Liberator Car put
hatred In mems hearts against all Anarchists
The taking off of Frances noble President
caused all the world to cry aloud against It's
deep damnation. But the murder of the Aus
TRAN Empress makes all true men In grim
silence adapt the words of Caligula and wish
that all Anarchists had but single neck, that
they might decapitate them at one blow.
1t is idle and worse than idle, to consider such
n deed as the act of a sincere but misguided re-
former or as having its inception In any aspira-
ton for the betterment Of the conditions Of the
human race. Let us give all due weight to the
woes Of the oppressed in lands less free than
ours, to the long legacy of woe and of hatred
against the oppressor Let us remember the ig
norance of many of the people the elemental
nature Of their passions, the despair that must
now and then settle upon them when they find
themselves helpless save TO strike blindly In the
dark. Let us make all possible allowance for
these things and for everything that may be
named or dreamed of liz extenuation Of violent
methods Of redress for wrongs. Yet there re-
mains the fact that such a deed as this Is in
conceivable save as the emanatiOn OF mind
diseased with malignant hatred of the human
race 1t is not the deed of a suffering man nor
of a tortured brute striking ont recklessly with
tooth and claw. 1t is the act Of rattlesnake
endowed with the gratuitous malice OF fiend.
The creature who could plan that crime must Of
necessity hate all mankind. The hand that
could do IL was consciously turned against the
human race.
That fact is made apparent In the time and
circumstances chosen for the deed few days
ago the Car proposed to the nations Of the world
the disarmament Of armies in the interest of
peace and of the welfare OF the race, and the
proposition was cordially welcomed on every
hand. This murder is the answer given to II by
Anarchy Hating the race. and therefore hating
peace and all the welfare of mankind, it does its
deyllsh worst to defeat the Cars beneiiccnt
plans. Had not that ireDlcon been issued the En-
press would probably not have been slain. Sc
long as monarchs are apparently regardless OF
the welfare of their subjects, the hand of the as
sassin is stayed The moment they manifest
benevolence, il strikes. II strikes, moreover
always at the kndliest and best. 1t the
Libcrator Car who was killed, not his despotit
father. 1t was the most liberal and generous OF
Frances Presidents down to his time. the on,
most full of human kindness, that fell beneath
the knife of the Anarchist So In this crownln:
tragedy the time and the victim are both de
liberatey chosen to show the utter malignancl
Of the actor.
In another respect this Is true. The hatred
the race that inspired the murder was not onl.
general but specific. 1t selected reignng fam
ily that has suffered more than an ordlnar.
share OF sorrow. 1t bore In mind that tn
Empress had borne grlevous burdens for man.