Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1887 — The Big Guns of Europe. [ARTICLE]
The Big Guns of Europe.
Chicago Herald. The New York World addressed questions to a number of European statesmen asking them what they thought about the hanging of the Anarchists. Answers by telegraph were returned on Sunday from Rome, St. Petersburg, Paris, Hawai den and Cler-mont-Ferrand, in France. Sig. Crispi. Prime Minister of Italy, assures the editor that an Italian Premier must not express an opinion concerning the internal affairs of another nation; therefore the noble Signon will limit himself to the remark that the useless penalty of death has been abolished now these ten years under the Italian monarchy. De Giers aesures Mr. Pulitzer that all equitable judgments are good. SpuTTer.lFrehcU'M’lnlster ofTSTlucation, is very much obliged for the check to theGambetta monument, but must be excused. Gladstone equivocates” in the following ignominious” manner: “i regret not to have a comprehensive knowledge of the circumstances, without which I fear an opinion from me would be wholly worthless.” It is difficult to believe that William Ewart Gladstone does not snow as much about the Haymarket case as any man ne- ds to know. If he does not he had better study it between now and next Sunday. Boulanger comes out fairly and squarely. Had this Gen. Bourn been out of custody he would have signed for communtation, along with his friends in Paris.
