The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-11
ANARCHY'S LATEST CRIME.

J the hand OF the assassin who struck to death
\ the Empress of Austria the anarchists OF
- Europe have accomplished another OF those ter
rble crimes which they call triumphs. woman
venerable for her years. loved for her virtues and
made sacred to every noble heart by the many sor-
rows that have fallen upon her august head has been
stabbed and murdered for other reason than that
of being the wife of the sovereign of great people
This latest crime of anarchy is in many respects
the worst and most revolving of all. The wretches
who aimed their bombs or their ponlards at
the Gar of Russia, the President OF france
the Prime Minister Of Spain, could
at least claim that they struck at men; but
this scoundre who perpetrated the crime at the Hotel
Beaurivage of that unredeemable baseness that
not only commits causeless murder through devihsh
malignancy, but strikes at womanhood ITSELF even
when crowned with gray hairs and robed in garments
of mourning.
The fated house of Aureus, whose many calamlties
furnished the Greek dramatsts with the awful TRACE
dies which still the hearts of men, was not
subject to a more dreful doom than that which has
befaen the illfated house Of Hapsburg IN this gen
Grafton By strange contrast with their terrible tor
tunes, the Emperor and the Empress have been
among the worthiest that ever sat upon a throne
Francis Joseph has long been Familiarity spoken OF
as 'the beloved Emperor" The Empress herself was
in her own land for her bountifu charities and
gracious ways, and respected everywhere for her
courtesy of manner, her frank kindness and her
genuine goodness of heart
1t was to her generous confidence in the general
love of the people and her unassuming simplicity OF
manner that her assassin owed the opportunity ne
found to strike his cowardly blow. The Empress was
without guards. She was living amid the Swiss
mountains in the simplicity of Swiss life. Any one
could approach her without let hindrancc She
feared none, for she had done wrong to none. She
forgot that to the anarchist it is necessary that
there should be for crime-that to him all
that is necessary is opportunity
1t will be remembered that when the immigration
restriction bill under consideration in the House
of Representatives the friends of the measure urged
strong argument in its favor that it would ex-
clude from the United States the class Of people who
have committed the crimes of anarchy in Europe
Judge Mcguire not only opposed the BILL but avowed
his antagonsm to any policy of excluding such men
In the course of speech delivered in the House
January 27 1897, the restrictcl bill he declared
the exclusion of anarchists socialists and nihsts
was not desirable and said: "They generally
educated men, many of them holding university de-
grees, whose offending consists OF resistance to ty-
ranny which in the conditions under which they live
is obedience to God. Who the nihists? They
are the Democrats of Russia, who are struggling
against almost hopeless odds to establish the in
alienable rights of in that country against
the tyranny and false pretense of divine right the
part of the Gar"
Since that speech delivered the anarchists oil
Europe have struck two blows and Canovas oil
Spain and Elizabeth of Austria are dead; and now
the Congressman who wished the doors of this coun-
try kept open to the coming of such criminals is
candidate for the governorshp Of California.