Washington sentinel., 1898-09-24
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The Shadow or Anarchy.

1t any thing were needed to increase
fhe detestation with which the anarchists
are regarded by all tbs more reputable
clement % the community throughout
the civilized world it would be the fact
that whenever they put into execution
that portion OF their detes,abIe doctrine
which orders the assassination OF great
personages and people who personify
caste and afiluenoe, as opposed to
poverty and squalor, they almost invari-
ably turn their weapons against precisely
those who ars the least identified with
oppression and tyranny. Indeed. the
most remarkable feature about this
particular phase of anarchiaI crime isus
utter uselesSness.
Il is difficult, for instance, to conceive
what possible political purpose can have
been achieved by the foul and cowardly
Staying OF Empress Elizabeth on
Saturday last at Geneva. Less perhaps
than any other consort ofan Old World
ruler has she played any part in the
government of her husband. In the
earlier part of her married life she held
aloof from politics in erder to avoid
intercourse with her ambitious and
power loving mother in law, the
Archduchsss Sophia.
And during the later moieEy OF her
career as Empress Queen she has lived
tor the most part abroad. travelling
about under an incognito name, and IN
the most tunostentatiousf fashion, seeking
Oblivion for the iDcoasolable sorrow
caused by the shocking death of her
only SON.
Equally difficult to comprehend was
the assassination Of President Carnot,
who' like the Austrian Empress, was
laid low By the dagger of an Italian
anarchist. He was the most exemplary
of men, distributed the major portion
of his Presidential salary in charity, and
if anything erred on the side OF mercy,
while the Ministers whoA he selected TO
assume direction of the destinies Of :he
| people were nearer Socialists than any
/ other Cabinet officers who have ever
been entrusted with portfolios either in
France on in any other civilized country.
Save for his choice of thsse Ministers
his rulership was purely nominal, and
it is impossible to imagine " by he should
have been selected as Me victim OF an
anarchist assassin
According to the assertion Of the
| Queen Regent Of Spain and of her
mother, the Archduchess Elizabeth Of
Austria, one OF the most level headed
and clever women IN existence, an an
archical attempt was made last Iune TO
poison the little King, who is barely
twelve years Of age. and whose tyranny
and despotism have therefore not as yet
extended beyond the confines Of his
nursery and playrOom. Since then his
mother does not permit him to touch
bit of food which she has not herself
first tasted, and the most extraordinary
precautions have been adopted by her
to prevent a repetition of the oRense
upon his young life.
This effort to cut short his days IS quite
: as illogical and incomprehensible as the
action of the Italian anarchist who
barely a fortnight ago fired a revolver
: at Queen Wilhelmina OF Holland, who
or assumed the reins OF government
l In fact, she was quite as innocent of any
1 sort Of despotsm or oppression as het
. brother monarch, the boy King of SpaiH
I If ever there was an assassination
i however, that was even from a reyolu
t tionary point Oi view inexcusable,
e was that of Car Alexander H., no il
I 1 4,
serfs and endowed them with rights O
citizenship, who wss, in fact, the Mus
e covite counterpart Of fAbraham Lincoln
was blown to pieces by the nitro glycsS
c inc bomb Of Russisn anarchists at IN
V very moment when he was driving bacl
IS to his palace to affix his signature to tn
q ukase which he had caused to be pre-
e pared endowing his empire with a cor
n stitution and popular form of govern
meut.
IS The preseRt King Of Wurte mber
,r was shot at b. an anarchist when leavin
Is / church at Stuttgart three years beio1
r he assembled the throne, and at a tiul
il when be had no share or responsible
e whatsoever in the government Of Il
IL kingdom, while King Humbert, a mod
constitutional sovereign, and SO kin
and charitable to the poor that he hi
been nicknamed "Le Roi dss MSrmo
tes, >" has had two attempts made on h
:" life by snarch SITS.
Four wears ago an anarchist attem
V was made near Prague to derail Il
W special train OF the Emperor Franc
y Joseph, who more thaa any living so
"S ereigu can lay claim to the title OF Il
* most kindly and warm hearted father
ls his people. the attempt naturally servil
OS to recall the fearful knife wound whi
'IY he received in the back from the han
'W OF an Italian assassin at Vleana Just
ier year before his marriage.
'r Russian nFllism and western anarc
no are Identical They both owe tn,
~ origin to a noble born Russian, Bar
Bakouuine, who justified indiscrimins
assassination OF the classes by the mass
l" on the groInd that it was necessary
% root oHt from mems minds the habit
~ and innate respect for everything that
'l' elevated and Reat. To this creed a
1le to the craze for notori Ely on the part
N'7 men in whom vanity and discont,
an have developed into a disease must
/ is ascribed such useless crimes as a
nen + peTpetrated at Geneva, the city in
- Europe where most anarChIcal Grin
have had their conception.
[ at No MONUHRNT FoR GLADsToNE