Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-09

in his means and object. may furnish
to the historian and the philosopher docu-
of which he is in fact the result. on the
birth and development OF revolutions
which come from the same causes that
he does and are provoked always by the
same men,.
And the author adds: The regicide is
not only an enemy of established politica!
order: he does not specially
Society's desire TO overturn such or
such a principle of govern
ment in order to substitute
another: he is also today certainly an i'm
placable adversary of society. That which
he wishes. which he seeks. is the destruc
ton OF social order. the principle upon
which governments repose. If his poign-
ard or revolver is turned by preference
against chiefs of state. this is not always
their privilege. In all governments. what
soever their form or name the reg.cide
finds a target. 1t matters not that the
victim may be king. a president or even
woman. Any one who is not i'm the
crowd. any one who holds power serves IS
a target fo- his weapon. That which he
hates is not a man or a government but
the principle fsOrder upon which society
reposes.
The regicide formerly believed him
self invested with mission and
thought that mission accomplished when
he had done away with the man who
interfered with him or who he thought
was opposed to his ideas. Ravailiac as
sassinated Henry w because he be-
lieved the king would not punish here
tics. Ravaillac. 1T should be remarked.
was a school teacher. and subsequently
entered a convent. which he WAS forced
To Of fc nj
pamphlets. Neither Ravaillac nor JAG
Ques Clement. the assassin of Henry
III, held revolutionary ideas or dream
ed of eXtinguishing royalty. Charlotte
Corday. who killed Marat in his bath,
did not kill him because of his ievolu-.
tionary principles. but because of her
abomination of his excuses and the
idea that his death would be the safe
guard of liberty: Klaiber. who at
tempted to assassinate Prince William
of Wurtemberg. declared that MS only
object was to destroy the elde.' branch
of the family in favor of the younger
The regicide of today is called an
archist His hatred is direct ed princi-
pally against the bourgeois. Valiant
pretended before the court that the
anarchist was on the defensive in re-
gard to the middle classes. Are we
not" he said. ''in state Of defense
when we return the attacks made upon
us from those above us?"
X
Dr. Emmanuel Regis is the author OF
book the complement of the preced-
ing, inspired by the nu
Classified merous crimes committed
-, by regicides or anarchists.
@e6' In the inception OF his
argument he cites NJ Laschi. counselor
at-law, who in the first anthropological
divided raRi-
cides into three categories: First. the
demented regicide. whose crime Is the
result of hallucination. awakened often
by religious scruples or sectarlan IA
naticism (examples-Jean Chatel. a col
lege student: jacques Clement. t;avail-
lac, Poltrot. Damiens): second. i--gicides
.'mattOideS," or those rendered de-
lirious by unlimited vanity and de-
sire to have themselves spoken OF and
rendered celebrities (exampies-Gui-
teau and Passanante): third. resicides
by passion and evaporation texamples
Charlotte COrday, Vera Sassoulitch,
Solowief).
DR. Regis divides regicides simply into
true and false The true regicides are
those with whom an attack against
marked personality has been the direct
and forced consequence of particular
state of mind. The false regicides, on
the contrary, are those with whom an
attack Is IIlOEc apparent tioA ANoi, NN> ~
chance.
In the first category ne places Poltrot,
who assassinated the Duke de Guise from
religious frenzy: Balthazar Gerard. VINO
killed william of Nassau from religious
frenzy: Ravaillac. who killed Henry Nv
ito prevent him from making war
against the pope" Damiens. who wound
ed Louis XIV in order to warn him to re-
establish tranquility in the anadrs OF the
country: Aimee Ceciie Renault. who at
order 10 secure
the return TO monarchy by the sac-lhce OF
her life:'' Fred Staape, who would XII
Napoleon l ''in obedience to divine in
spiration that he might give peace to the
Duke de Berry with the idea of deliver
ing France of the Bourbons: Ankarstrom
jacques. a confirmed regicide. who as
sassinated Gustavus III OF sweden
Orsini. who attempted the life Oh Ma,
poieon III. 1.-The friend of the pope and
the enemy of Italy, Guiteau. who killed
President Garfield because of political
necessity and divine preston; Passa-
mantle who attacked King Humbert with
a socialist banner in hand that he might
found a universal republic" Cashier. who
attempted to kill an attache OF the Ger
man embassy that war might result and
thus commerce would be revived
In the second category DR. Regis cites
Marriott and Perrin. who discharged pis-
tolls at the carriage of the
Attractino chiefs of government, but
not to KILL for the arm of
AISeHIAon' one was charged only with
powder; the other fred in the ground.
the object being ito attract attention and
thus procure justice for grievances. more
or less imaginary.
DIR. Regis cites the names OF eighteen
who attempted the assassination of Henry
w before Ravaillac. He declares that
modern legislators have thought that edu-
cation would prove a powerful remedy
for the suppression of the anarchist and
regicide. The statistics have proved this
to be a cruel deception. and he points to
the fact that almost all of this class are
educated. and even educators.
In searching for the causes which create
the criminal he finds them hereditary.
That he is unbalanced and degenerate
from birth, and therefore a ready subject
victim of occasional influences.
The medico-legal conclusions of DR..
Regis as to what should be done with the
anarchist and regicide, whom he would
treat as crazed degenerates. are specially
interesting at this moment, in view OF
the commotion created by the crime at
Lisbon.
DR.. Regis would have the criminal
judged and not the crime. The regicide
Is an irresponsible. He fears the asy-
lum far more than the gallows or the
guillotine. The asylum wounds his van
ity because 1t treats him as fool; the