The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-06-08
Especial Washington Let,srl

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40 the anarchists have been
u playing the fool, as usual, by
~ plotting Co. assassinate Car
Nlchula ul Russia Most as.
suredly anarchists are the most in
corrigibe idiots on earth They are
just rs apt 10 Kill q wise and humane
ruler as despot What good could a
sane man suppose would come of kill.
ing Mckinley or the president OF the
French republic, King Humbert Of
Italy or Empress Elizabeth OF Austria 2
These fools claim that their object IS
10 DO away with all government. They
ought t. have learned by this time Of
day that killing individual rulers has
no tendency whatever TO abolish gov.
ernment In this country, for instance,
there are eight men who may 10y law
succeed seriatim 10 Colonel Roosevelts
place should he die while in office. 1t
would be a remarkable performance
should the anarchists manage 10 Kill
him and all the eight presidents in
posse at one fell swoop. And suppose
they did. What would happen? If
congress were in session, It would pass
an emergency measure nstanter ap-
pointing somebody president pro TEN.
and till a special election could be
called to elect a president. If congress
were not in session, it would get itself
together In five days ana do the same
thing, somebody acting on his own
motion as president while congress
was getting Itself together or course
there is no provision In the coustltu-
tion or laws for the performances
which / have mentioned, but the law
of self preservation is the first law Of
nature. We would act on 1t, and every
body would acquiesce in the proceed
ings as necessary and proper
In the case OF crowned heads the
assassination Of the reigning sovcr-
eigns and their immediate possible
successors does nothing for the aboli.
tion Of government, for in almost cy.
cry case there are scores Of persons I'm
being who may lawfully succeed TO
the throne. In Great Britain and Ger.
many there must be hundreds, for the
Brunswickers and HohenZollerns are
prolific folks. President Roosevelt
cannot charge them with race suicide
Gar Nicholas also has numerous blood
relations who are in the line of success
sion. He is not n great monarch, but
he does his best according to his lights.
which, II must be confessed, are some
what dim and tiickering. He Is not
cruel as czars go. He Is a rcfOrmer
so far as he knows how to be and so
far as he Is permitted to be by cir
cumstances and his advisers So was
his grandfather, Alexander III. He is
known In history as "the liberator'
because he freed the serfs. The nihil-
lists murdered him at the very moment
when he was about to sign paper
granting many new privileges to the
Russian people. That paper was never
signed, for he was succeeded by his
gloomy, savage and tyrannical son,
Alexander Ill, who was a reactlonary
of the most pronounced type. SO by
the death of a liberal car the Rus
sians fell out of the frying pan into
the fire. SO in all human probability It
VIII be, 20 certain extent at least IL
they succeed in assassinatlng Nicho-
las. It's a great pity that all the an
archists on the face Of the earth could
not be rounded up and either hanged
or imprisoned for life at hard labor
II the present gang could be utterly
extirpated, it would be some consider.
able time before a new gang could be
raised. 1t would be good riddance.