Douglas Island news., 1919-02-28
ATTACK ON CLEMENCEAU
Seattle Timcsl

assassin.
 The man who shot him was animated by uo personal hatred of the French states man. In point of fact he knew him only b, sight and probably never had spoken to him at amy time
 His purpose merely was to remove ouc whom he djslihcd for political reasons
 because he bcHcvccd Clcmcuccan was "pIamug another war" or bcausc he con SjLcryd tbc premier am "opprcsSor'' of the "vorkiug class.
 While thc individual in this ease may brcousidcrcd rrack-bajucd fanatic, there i, uo doubt that his views were formed by thc reading of propagauda put out by other, holding to identical views, but lack mg thc madmm'S nerve to carry them into effect
 Emil Cottiu. the assassin, is not am lg- uoramu~. In some respects, Inc is a man of educational attachments. Unfortunately .or himself. for M. Clcmcuccau and for or gauizcd society. his education trcudcd along extreme lines and made him the more daugurou~ because educated.
 Cotm iS the product of much of the theoretical anarchy that i> being preached toIa, .uougbout the world by snug las- calls. who scduIou>Iy keep within the bounds or ,lc law themselves, who profit from cv- cry benefit conferred upon mankind by the maintenance of public order, but who con s.aurlv are coyculy melting less cautious individuals to commit crimes of violence.
 Whatever may bc Clcmcuccau's views win reference to the league of nations, thc uau is mot now and never has been repre- sentative of the ''prcdatory class. " Glenn cn.rau is Socialist. For years, Inc has so rr-ardcd aud has SO identified himself, al- though rhc world seemingly has lost sight or rhc extremely interesting and Signit- cant facet that the chairman of the peace conference was man who long had been identified with that phase of French poHt- ira. thought.
 Uc hold, office only SD long as he can command a majority in the French ParIla- mcut which is dominated by men holding to SociaIi>rir principles
 These circumstances render the attack upon him all thc more astonishing and go to prove that in the eyes of anarchists whether of French, Russian or other origin, there is no difference between so-caIlcd .p.utociurs" and so-callcd Socialists whenever thc latter believe in law, order aud dcrcury
 Ccmcurcm was attacked solely be- cause hc stands for these things, because hc iS constructive, because he comedies in thc right of the majority to rule, be- cause he supports those principles of mor- ality. justice and right upon which organ izcd society everywhere must be founded ifit is to endure.
 Whether tottm was OF was not the agent of BolShcvist interests, his crime was typical of the system which advocates of this mad doctrine are striving to saddle upon thc world.
 Ccmcurcau was attacked because he was and is representative of mankiud's $ as >piratiou to go forward, not backward, to achieve through intelligent reform better things for the world, to make the present civilization am agency for further reasoned, orderly progress.
 m attacking him, Cottm put nations everywhere ou notice as to that which au- archy is striving to achieve and which it has achieved in Russia, where all hope of orderly administration of government af- fairs has been drowned i'm a flood of blood from the veins of mfortmateS, murdered to maintain in power am autocracy more brutal and more oppressive of liberty than the mtocracy of the Romanoffs