INTERNATIONALISM

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 1, 1879

The recent threats against the life of Queen Victoria should she visit Italy, and the actual attempt to assassinate the Czar, following so quickly similar plots against the lives of the Emperor of Germany and the King of Italy, show the demonic purpose that is infuriating the advocates of the doctrine of modern Socialism. It is easy for its orators and editors, in legislatures and public journals, to disclaim and repudiate the natural and terrific outgrowth of their principles, but if fruit is not desired, its seed must not be planted. The fact is too evident that they have disciples who do not shrink from carrying out their principles to their logical conclusion. The spirit of the red-handed Communists of Paris still lives, and bides its time for repeating its excesses. At the recent celebration in Bologna, Italy, of the anniversary of the Commune, eighty Socialists, of whom twenty were women, drank toasts to “the next revolution, which will set all Europe in flames!” What must the doctrine be that can thus transform men and women into fiends!—Christian Weekly.