Before we give further details of their accursed work, let us here give an able editorial upon the

SUPPRESSION OF ANARCHISTS

"The assassination of the President of the United States at the hands of a man who professes himself an anarchist challenges the careful consideration, by the people and their representative bodies, of the question whether it is not full time to enter upon a certain and stern repressive treatment of fanatics of his class. The United States has been easy with them, has given them license of speech, liberty of organization, privilege of parade; it has thus afforded free field for the propaganda of murder. It has kept open its ports to this society of European destructives, under the old custom of asylum to political offenders,--for assassins of monarchs and plotters of assassination have been held to be such in Great Britain and America, sometimes also in Switzerland and in a few other countries. Perhaps the time has come when this tolerance should no longer be extended. It does not work well.

"There is no sort of doubt that there is a real society of enemies of all government, made up for the most part of men bred under European conditions, whose aim is the overturn of government of any sort by means of terror; and thus they strike at law and order by the murder of those who represent them, Presidents of republics as well as Kings, constitutional sovereigns as well as autocratic monarchs; and, as was shown in Chicago some years ago, also the legally appointed instruments of the law's enforcement, the police, chosen from the people for the protection of the people from crime and violence. The lesson of Chicago should not be lost upon us. No more effective blow has been delivered at this blind assault on order than the hanging of the men who, either in person or by their speech and printed words, brought on and carried out the massacre of policemen in Haymarket Square. Yet, in this year, in New Jersey, societies have been allowed to celebrate the assassin of the King of Italy as a martyr, making him the hero

in West Hoboken, N. J. Bresci was sentenced to solitary confinement for life. He afterwards committed suicide in his cell.

While living at his summer villa near by, King Humbert had gone to the grounds of the Gymnastic Society, at Monza, to distribute the prizes to the victorious athletes. He rode in his car riage, attended only by his aide-de-camp, and with neither escort nor guards. When the work of distributing the prizes had been finished the King re-entered his carriage. He was smiling, happy and perfectly at ease. The crowd was cheering. In the midst of the crowd was Bresci pushing about to obtain an advantageous position. Just as the horses were about to start he drew a revolver and discharged it three times. One bullet went through King Humbert's heart and he fell back into the arms of his aide. As the attendant bent over him he opened his eyes.

HOW KING HUMBERT OF ITALY WAS SLAIN

"It is nothing," he said, and became unconscious.

Bresci had been seized by many hands. Police, athletes and spectators pounced upon him, and before the police in sufficient force could act, his clothes had been torn to shreds, his face and body battered and his hands and arms torn. The horses were lashed into a gallop and a dash was made for the villa, where medical attendance could be obtained. The drive was made in three minutes, but before the gates were reached the king was dead.

When Queen Margherita arrived at the villa after a drive, a few minutes later, the news was broken to her.

"It is the greatest crime of the century," she cried. "Humbert was good and faithful. No king could have loved his people He was one who bore ill will to no one."

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Bresci confessed his crime, and boasted of it. He said first that he came from Prato. in Tuscany, where his parents live, but later he said:

"Tell them I came from America, where I was a silk weaver, on purpose to kill Humbert."

It was soon discovered that he had worked in a silk mill at Paterson, N. J., and lived in West Hoboken, where his wife and family still are. He was well known in the colony of anarchists there, and for a time it was believed he had been chosen by lot to perform the deed as the representative of some fanatical circle. Later it appeared he acted of his own volition, and had sailed for Italy with the purpose of killing the King. He was known in Paterson as a moody, quiet man, who never talked about his ideas to anyone save a few cronies. His wife knew nothing of the plan he had formed and was anxiously awaiting his return from a visit to his home.

There is no capital punishment in Italy, but after a speedy trial Bresci was sentenced to a punishment worse than death. For nearly a year he was confined in a stone cell, barely large enough for his body, and just before his suicide was confined in one a trifle larger. There was but little light, no reading matter, no writing utensils, no work, and no one to whom he could speak.

Owing to the absence from Italy of the Prince of Naples, it was thought at first that a temporary regency would be necessary. The Prince arrived in time, however, and, as King Victor Emmanuel III., succeeded his father. King Humbert was careless of his personal safety, although he had been repeatedly warned.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATIONS OF RULERS

Prior to 1800 the attempts to assassinate rulers were rare compared with the record of the nineteenth century. The French Revolution, which maddened an entire nation, seems to have left throughout the world the seeds of a disposition to destroy those in authority. The assassins have been as active in their assaults upon Presidents of republics as upon Kings or despots.

On May 15, 1800, James Hatfield made an unsuccessful attempt upon the life of George III. of England, and in the same year an attempt was made to kill Napoleon I. by an infernal machine.