| Show AN alf EXPRESS EMPRESS assassinated A bulletin received this morning september lo 10 announces the cimel ci mel assassination sassi nation of the empress of austria at a hotel in geneva switzerland the det detaille aills of the fiendish deed are are not at the present prea ent writing obtained but it t seems that the assassin was an anarchist who plunged a stiletto into the heart of the queen the empress em press elizabeth amalie eugence was me daughter of duke maximilian of bavaria and was married to Erni emperor erdT Franc ts joseph in 1864 she wa a cousin on her mothers side aide to the king of Ba bavaria vurla it is utterly impossible to the motive that prompted the brute in human form to plunge his murderous murde roua knife into the heart of the noble lady her life has been as far as lit was in her power to make it so a blessing to the people and with hier her imperial 1 pon on sort she enjoyed the esteem and love of her subjects the blow was undoubtedly aimed at the aged austrian ruler whose crime from an anarchistic I 1 point of view is that he wee wears a crown and the steel must have pierced his heart at the same time tt ft found its way to that of his beloved queen francis joseph is already weighed down with years with cares and sorrows and this last the gre greatest cat of all must bring biln to the ground tile majestic oak that so long has braved the raging tempests to this must have been the object of at the demon that murdered the imperial lady ladr the sympathy of the whole world is with the austrian emperor irk in this supreme hour of affliction some advocates of anarchy denounce the murderous deeds of thor their associates es but no amount of soph sophi latry I 1 can con conceal ceal the fact that the do tran sitZ promulgated by that class of ref reform omers lead directly to just such acts of brutal vil violence olence all anarchists regard human laws lams and regulations ad H inimical cral to liberty awl and it cannot be surprising to find as as result of tae promulgation of this principle that men and women with the instincts of beaste res resort ortto to murder but a system responsible for such deeds must be crushed society has a right to protect Probe ct itself a against it just as it hias a right aad a duty to protect itself against rattlesnakes and man eating doting tigers even the sacred mantle of liberty must bas ba torn to pieces when it is made the cov ering of crime |
