Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1898-09-16 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

THE ANARCHIST AGAIN.  The terrible crime commitol in Switz,rland lot Saturday has created a feeling horror and indignation throughout tiff, world. It was a crime absolutely without reason. That a woman like the Empre, of Austria, so gentle and so universally Ix:l,mA, SO bUrdtr/ed/Lb her OWII sorrows and such 4 pathetic figure among Royalty, should he struck down by the blow of an Anarchi,t  assassin, is one of the saddest, episode, history. In vain do we search for a singl, cause. The Empress does not seem to hay possessed an enemy in the world. Her get tleness, her goodness, and her amiabilit gave her a unique position among the l,';ft. . .  ones of the earth-, and whilst it enstrted—fc;  the respect of her equals, it brought her loving homage of her people. Yet it _  counted for naught last 'Saturday. Or; way from her hotel in Genova to tLi steamer which was to take her a short &s-tance upon the Lake, she was rushed up.o by an assassin, who struck her to the heart with a weapon concealed in his hand. Curiously enough, although the Empress reeled and almost fell, she recovered sufficiently t. walk to the steamer. There she soon collapsed, and in an hour or two it was all over. Happily, she never seems to have that she had fallen a victim to an assassin knife. She only thought she had been strui.:. violently in the breast with his hand, and a she speedily relapsed into unconseicus-nus and suffered very small loss of blood, she wa, , allowed to pass away without the hideous truth being revealed to her. The Emperor ' received the news with pathetic grief. He has had a stormy life, and not least ha,,. he been disturbed by the domestic calamities of his ill-fated house. But this was the greatest blow oi all. On the eve of celebrating his Jubilee it was a terrible and a cruel thing to lose his partner of forty-four years of wedded happiness. The world's sympathy is with him in his anguish, and not least in his wonder at such a fearful blow from the hand of an inscrutable Providence.  Against the miserable wretch responsible for the Emperor's grief public resentment has blazed out in fiercest indignation. He is an Anarchist, a thing without soul and without mercy, whose hand is against every man's, and against whom every man's hand should he raised in return. he glories in his deed, exults over it with fanatical and callous zeal, and calls upon his fellow-Anarchists to behold the great work he has accomplished. He is an Italian, naturally. That goes without saying. The murderer of President Caruot was an Italian; ea aLso was the murderer of Senor Canova& del Castillo. Italy is the breeding ground of these wretches, and Europe is their playground. The King of Italy will attend the Empress's funeral--he should be a happy and a proud man at the thought of the kind of person his country turns loose upon civilisation. As for Switzerland, if her people grieve deeply at what has happened in their land of "freedom and equality," they must surely have some slight regret that their laws have made the country open to Anarchists and all other equally vile things, and have even 90 far coddled them that there is no death penalty for such a crime as this. Surely the time is coming when the Governments of Europe will drop the foolish tolerance with which they have regarded these horrid wretches. An Anarchist is an enemy of the whole world ; he is a menace to the peace and happins of the community; he is a thing apart and catside the pale of human sympathy, and 'de should be treated as such. Within thr2e years three rulers or members of ruling houes have been struck down by their hands, and yet as fast as they choose to leave their native shores they are offered an asylum in other lands. The "Manchester Guardian," whose bowels of sympathy always yearn over these tender creatures, deprecates any cries for vengeance or any attempted measures to rzt Anarchy down as a living force. It is all very well to plead, as some do, that the,e isolated crimes are becoming fewer and fewer. and will in tune become Unpossible. We should have greater faith if we knew that every known Anarchist had been hunted down by the police and put for ever beyond the reach of doing harm.