Review of reviews and world's work . not permittedto return, even to remove their clothes and French Chamber promptly passed a law decree-ing death to those who use explosives in this fashion,and the foreign anarcliists have been banished fromParis. But Society has received a shock which willbe felt for some time to come. If these things hadhappened in Russia of course our glib moralists couldhave explained it all. But in the Republic I The fact is that to men of a certain typel°unatics. *^^ difference between Autocracies and Republics is absolutely immaterial. Theyare at war wit
Review of reviews and world's work . not permittedto return, even to remove their clothes and French Chamber promptly passed a law decree-ing death to those who use explosives in this fashion,and the foreign anarcliists have been banished fromParis. But Society has received a shock which willbe felt for some time to come. If these things hadhappened in Russia of course our glib moralists couldhave explained it all. But in the Republic I The fact is that to men of a certain typel°unatics. *^^ difference between Autocracies and Republics is absolutely immaterial. Theyare at war with society, and society is not withoutexcuse when it treats them to the scant shriftawarded to the mad dog. Ravachol-Leger-Koenig-stein does not appear to be a much naore respectablecriminal than the extraordinary murderer whose ex-ploits have tilled the papers all last month. Deem-ing, it is true, did not by any formal declaration levywar on society. He simply cut the throats of hiswives and his children and then buried them out of. MR. MATTHEWS, ENGLISH HOME SECRETARY. THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 403 sight beneath the concrete with which he cementedhis kitchen. The precise number of his victims hasnot been ascertained. He appears to be a more de-hberate and domesticated specimen of the homicidalgenns wliich has Jack the Ripper as its leading repre-sentative. For snchmen society can only i)rescribe intwo ways. There is either tlie s^\ift and summarygallows, or there is the cell in an asylum for criminalli;natics. Society, however, seldom hangs the rightwid^its people. Last month the gallows had severalUses. victims in England, including two whosefate created some considerable stir. Two poachers,being caught red-handed, fought theii- captors, andoverpowering them, dashed in their heads as they laysenseless on the ground. For this offence they weretried, sentenced and hanged. Mr. Matthews, whowas assailed with persistent appeals for a reprieve,stuck to his gims, or rather to his
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