Considerable discussion has arisen since the news of the assassination of Senor Canovas del Costello reach:, Bogland on the subject of our policy of harbouring anarchists and other assassins from all ate of the world. Just before the Spanish premier was murdered " little band of Spanish anarchists, who had been refused admission into France, lind landed at Liverpool und come on to London; and we now learn that Galli, the murderer of Canovas, was recently in England, and that the accomplices in his crime are probably still among us. England is the traditional place of refuge for persecuted patriots and evolutionists; and most
lenied men who have been bravely strug-would regret to sce an asylum gling against tyranny; but it ought surely to be possible to draw the line between men of this stamp and the fanatics and desperadoes who are the <ommon foes of all law-abiding people. It is nota party question, for, as a Conserentive journal inas just pointed out, Sie William Harcourt, the leader of the party which is supposed to have most sympathy with revolutionaries, was, us Home Secretary, much more active against the anarchists than his successors have been. It was he who directed the prosecution of Herr; Most for his advocacy of assassination in an Anarchist journal.
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