Private Vengeance.

The assassin's hand has been active in two countries. The murder of the Japanese Premier may mean still greater demerance of the military party in Japan—with increased possibility of clash with China and Russia—but its meaning is obscure at time of writing. The assassination of President Doumer—charged by some people to Russia—may have been due to a personal freak. While no leader is safe from individual crimes, it is good to reflect that so far assassination has not been added to the sufferings that depression has caused in Britain and America. The patience of the British people in the slump years is as great an epic as their fortitude in the Great War. What ruling and governing system anywhere has stood the storm better than the British Crown and Parliament?