Show THE assassination i OF CARNOL it is not emy easy to imagine a deed more fiendish in conception or more perfect in its ita imbecility than the stab that cut short abort the life of carnot president of the french republic the news of the assassination has sent a shook shock of horror not only through france but throughout the civilized world when alexander II 11 was torn to pieces by the bomb thrown by a nihilist and the message reached the royal courts of europe crowned hea Js is were seen to bond bend in sorrow borrow and tears moistened many an eye usually reflecting the dignity of majesty it was made evident that the greatest watchfulness the supposed sanctity aur surrounding rounding the persons of rulers and the vast power of militarism were inefficient to shield a monarch from a most horrible fate and the contemplation sent a thrill of terror through the hearts of many ruler sand they trembled for their own safety but it was thought that the assassination of the russian emperor was a b low blow aimed at despotism in the interest of human liberty and the emancipation of mankind and the world soon became more composed the murder 0 of r f president carnot will dispel this deunion delusion der def and prove beyond a doubt that the hydra of anarchy alma aims at nothing but destruction and that its ito victims are selected for no other reo reason than the exalted position they hold among the nations of the earth republican institutions and the men that represent them are a as a obnoxious to the secret combinations of assassins as are monarchial hial governments government and despots the ultimate effect in prance France of the tragic end of the president will possibly be disastrous the country has for some time been the scene of anarchistic archi outrages perpetrated in various varius us places the police have repeatedly endeavored to allay the public panic by asserting that the lens dens of the assassins were well known and the leaders closely surveyed but the outrages went on capping the climax by the killing of the he nations nation s chief on a public street thronged thron ged with people the frenchmen are excitable a and nd it would be no surprise if the deed should cause a change of sentiment among the people against a form of government which to them must seem incapable of coping with the situation certain it is that the imperialists who have been laboring incessantly for the restoration of the empire will find in the lamentable incident an excuse for redoubling their efforts and that they will not neglect the opportunity many will remember the glory of and forgetting the rott rottenness eDDeN which that gilded exterior covered will long for a restoration ot of the empire in the fate of nations sometimes hangs on apparently small dents and the cold steel of an italian assassin may prove to have given republicanism entrance France in a serious if not a fatal wound but whatever the effects of the deed may be to france and french Ins titu bione tione it should arouse the civilized world to united action against organizations that teach murder as a sacred doctrine anarchy to Is sometimes defended on the plea pies that true anarchy only aims at bringing about a condition of the world in which no government is needed that is a condition in which each man is his bis own ruler true anarchists it is said resort to no BO violence but preach a pure gospel of peace all of which is as far as can be ascertained nothing but nonsense anarchy or nihilism or whatever name bearens it be areas it 11 manifests manifesto itself in the world and from the me fruits it must be judged rather than from its theories to Is the doctrine of murder and assassination and violence it 14 la is the avowed enemy of society and must be treated as such the war must be carried on with its own weapons until every expounder of the doctrine of killing has had his bis teachings applied to himself A bounty la Is paid for the destruction destruct lon of poisonous animals but murderous anarchists are worse woree than the snaked or the tigers of the jungle society has a right to preserve itself and to defend its peaceful citizens such hypocritical denunciations lations of the anarchists caught in ID their crime as are given to the press by their count for nothing the fact Is probably that when those fanatics are found they are made use of as tools whereby the dicta of their societies cleties mo are carried out cut it lg in more than probable that the real as saina the leaden that directed that arm of the murderous italian are smoking their cigarettes oiga rettea and sipping flipping their coobs in some fashionable cafe reading I 1 la a the newspapers the details of the crime planned by them against each such villains the war should be waged to the last president marie francois sadi carnot whose sad mad death the world now mourns was born in limoges in 1837 1897 he was entrusted with nevera several minor offices in the state and became a member of the chamber of deputies in 1876 A few years later he was made minister of finance and in 1886 succeeded jules grevy as president of the republic his policy as an the head bead ofa of a great nation has been one of peace and he has succeeded as an few in holding the esteem of friends and opponents alike he was mentioned in connection with the panama affair but no taint clings to the henory of his name he comes near to being considered an ideal president of prance france and history will surround him with the nimbus ol of a martyr for republican republic ail principles |