The excessive delay which in the United States destroys the
effect of sentences for murder has not marked the trial of Czolgosz, the Anarchist assassin. The jury was allowed to assemble on Monday without innumerable challenges, the police proved that the accused had confessed and justified his crime, the doctors proved that the bullet killed President McKinley, and after thirty-five minutes' deliberation the jury on Tuesday returned a verdict of " Guilty " in the first degree. The Judge even then postponed his sentence for two days, but there could be no doubt of the law, and on Thursday Czolgosz was sentenced to death by electrocution. The only defence of the criminal is that one man "can have no right to service and attention while another has none," an opinion which would make of friendship a capital crime. That secures service and attention as much as money does. It used to be believed that human character was an unchange- able thing, but sympathy is to a great extent a modern virtue, and envy has risen into a motive power of the first strength. Czolgosz in reality killed because he envied.
