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Show KING HUMBERT. The death of Italy's ruler ' at the hands of an assassin on last Sunday Is sad. Born in Turin March 14, 1S44, he succeeded his father, Victor Emanuel, in 1878. While Prince of Piedmont he commanded a division of General Cial-dini's Cial-dini's army at Custozza in, 1S66. The most notable event of his life was the formation of the Triple Alliance in 18S3. No cause, further than that the assassin assas-sin was an anarchist, is given for the awful crime. Anarchy is a social evil, had its origin at the commencement of the present century in France. The word itself indicates its meaning without a ruler or jrovernment. Pierre Joseph Proudhon, born at Besancon, France in 1809, a French socialist, contributed con-tributed more than any who succeeded him in establishing a network of opposition oppo-sition to all government throughout Europe. During the revolution of 1S4S he ranked as the most ardent socialist. In 1S49 he was imprisoned for violating the press laws. He maintained that property was robbery "La propriete c' este le, vol." A professed atheist, with rigid logic, he showed that belief in the existence of God was incompatible incompat-ible with the liberty of man. "The foundation foun-dation of all despotism," he wrote, "is in the belief of the existence of God, and you must deny, obliterate that belief be-lief before you can assert and maintain main-tain liberty." In his writings he labored hard to place the flesh above the spirit, and to eliminate from every department depart-ment of life all law except the law in our members. A scoffer of all forms of belief, and even maintaining that God was a tyrant aitd the source of all tyranny, he consistently admitted that "who ever asserts the existence of God must, if logical, accept the whole Catholic Cath-olic system, and acknowledge the authority au-thority of the Catholic Church." To the satanic influence of Proudhon, whose business it was to break away from the entire past, to reject what man, in every age, held as sacred, in a word, to destroy all that was, is or may be, may be justly attributed many of the evils that has beset Europe during the present century. In his false anti-religious, anti-religious, revolutionary stories anarchists anarch-ists have found justification for their dreadful crimes, and that of last Sunday Sun-day adds one more to the black list perpetrated per-petrated in the name of anarchy. .V |