The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-15
CLOSE WATCH ON
THE ANARCHISTS
Best Protection for Rulers 0
the Earth
POLICE SYSTEM NEEDED
There Should Be an international Ar
ngement-Differenc Between
Theorists and the Men
of Action.
Special Cable Dispatches to the New York

Special Cable Dispatches to the New York
Sun.
London.-The measures which society
win take to protect itself against an
archists continue to occupy a large share
of the attention of the European press,
but nothing important in the way of new
remedies has been suggested.
The advocates of extreme punishment
find little support. 1t is argued in sew
eral journals that assassins seem to ex-
pect and are Indifferent to the death pen
atty and the certainty of life imprison-
ment would be much more appalling. to
their imagination. The Spectator remarks:
THE probable victims must, of course,
continue to be carefully protected by the
police 1t is very hard lot for them, for
such protection not only interferes with
their personal freedom. but breeds in
them perpetual watchfuness, which dis
turbs and therefore dimlnishes their
power of Thought. But we can see no
way out of 1t. Formerly they might be
defended by armor but malignant science
has armed desperadoes with weapons be-
fore which the Occur de Lion in his full
est panoply would have been as a child
in silk.
THE watching by the police should be
strengthened by detectives resolved for
such work and drawn from a more intel
aectual class than a majority of policemen,
and though international arrests would
only drive in the danger there can be no
objection to International watehfulness.
such as WILL 1t is believed, save King
Victor Emmanuel from the danger threat
ening him on his visit to Ancona- Lastly
the great police officers should learn to
distinguish more than they do now be-
tween anarchists who are theorists mas
tered by evil logic and who only think
or preach that If all kings were dead the
world would be happier and men of action
who hate SO hard that they are as ready
no kill kings as the Irish extremists once
were to kill evicting land agents.
s above all, the police OF southern Eu-
rope and Russia should avoid torturing
theorists who may fall into their hands,
1t is not only to protect their own claim
to asylum that anarchists in England
spare Englishmen; 1t is because they are
protected from that last driving touch
which comes from personal oppression"
Paris paper has made census of an
arehst newspapers and finds there is
total of more than $50, of which there
are forty-two in New York and one in
Chicago 1t is calculated that there are
only 10000 anarchists altogether which
leads the Spectator to remark that they
are the most newspaper ridden people in
existence. 1t adds;
I'VE trust that no attempt will be made
to suppress anarchist literature. No doubt
1t does some harm. but still greater harm
would be done by closing the safety valve
"A man who is not allowed to kill kings
and ministers with ink is more, not less,
likely to try to murder them with dyna-
mite"
Geneva. June amy one who knows the
present condition of Luigi Luechoni who
assassinated the Empress Elizabeth of
Austria here on September 10, 1898, does
not need the official denial of the chief of
police to stamp as absurd the story that
Lucchoni was pleased to hear of the
bomb outrage at Madrid. He does not
hear any news. Only the warders, the