Many men in South Africa have survived a similar wound
even without those resources of conservative surgery which were within half-an-hour at the disposal of the President, Mr. McKinley has now survived his 'wounds for nearly seven days, and up till Thursday evening the best surgical opinion in America was that, failing Complications, he would recover in about another month. He is only fifty-eight, and is a strong, active inan, With perfect nerves, who has led a very abstemious and healthy life. • If he recovers—which at the moment of our going to press seems unlikely. grave symptoms of heart failure having suddenly supervened—the joy of the people will be broken only by the reflection that by the laws of New York the assassin will be liable only to ten years' imprisonment. That is clearly an inadequate Punishment, but there are grave reasons far not adopting the death penalty now so eagerly demanded. It would destroy the motive for i;vbiding- actual murder which now influences,
as much experience on the Continent seems to prove, many Anarchist agents. By wounding without killing they obey their orders without sentencing themselves.
