ve newspapers, who tried by their silence to perpetrate the
confusion between socialism and anarchy.

Here is the declaration:

_The Socialist Party to the Workingmen of Italy._--Down with
assassins! "Humanity now understands that life is sacred, and does
not tolerate brutal violations of this great principle which is
morally the soul of socialism." C. PRAMPOLINI.

"He who struggles for the right to life, in exchange for his labor,
condemns every assault upon human life,--whether it be the work of
bourgeois exploitation in factories, or of the bombs or daggers of
unintelligent revolutionists.

"The Socialist Party which has this principle for a shibboleth,
which expects everything from the class-conscious organization of
the working class, execrates the crime committed against the person
of the President of the French Republic, as a brutal deed, as the
negation of every principle of revolutionary logic.

"It is necessary to arouse in the proletariat the consciousness of
their own rights, to furnish them the _structure_ of organization,
and to induce them to _function_ as a new organism. It is necessary
to conquer the public powers by the means which modern civilization
gives us.

"To revolt, to throw at haphazard a bomb among the spectators in a
theatre, or to kill an individual, is the act of barbarians or of
ignorant people. The _Socialist Party_ sees in such deeds the
violent manifestation of _bourgeois_ sentiments.

"We are the adversaries of all the violences of bourgeois
exploitation, of the guillotine, of musketry discharges (aimed at
strikers, etc.), and of anarchist outrages. _Hurrah for
Socialism!_"

Socialism represses all these sterile and repugnant forms of individual
violence.

Carnot's death accomplished nothing except to arouse a transitory
atavistic hatred of Italians. Afterward, the French Republic elected
another President and everything was as before. The same may be said of
Russia after the assassination of Alexander II.

But the question may be regarded from another point of view, which the
conservatives, the progressives and the radicals too completely forget.

The very day of these outrages two explosions of gas took place, one in
the mines of Karwinn (Austria), and the other in the mines of Cardiff
(England); the first _caused the death of 257 miner