These affirmations, which answer to the 

 wave of the sentiments and ideas of too large 

 a part of the working class and to the impa- 

 tience provoked by their miserable condition, 

 may meet with an ignorant momentary appro- 

 bation, but their action can only be ephemeral. 

 The explosion of a bomb may cause a 

 momentary excitement, but it cannot advance 

 by the fraction of an inch the evolution of 

 intelligence towards socialism, whilst it causes 

 a sentimental reaction, a reaction partly 

 sincere but cleverly fomented and exploited 

 as a pretext for repression. 



To say to workmen without having pre- 

 pared the material means, and especially 

 without solidarity and moral consciousness, 

 that they ought to rise against the classes 

 in power, is rather to play the game of 

 these very classes, because these are always 



published by a section of the Socialist party of Italian 

 workmen in the Secolo, of June zyth-aSth, and distri- 

 buted at Milan, as a manifesto, in thousands of copies, 

 and to which neither Conservative nor Progressive news- 

 papers have referred, lest the confusion between socialism 

 and anarchy may be ended. 



Here is the declaration : 



"The Socialist Party to Italian Workmen. Down with 

 assassins ! Humanity understands now that life is sacred, 

 and does not tolerate brutal violations of this great princi- 

 ple, which is morally the soul of socialism. C.Prampolini. 



"He who struggles for the right to live in exchange 

 for his labour, reprobates every attempt on human life 

 whether it be the action of bourgeois exploitation in 

 factories, bombs or daggers of ignorant revolutionaries. 



"The Socialist Party, which has this principle for its 

 motto, which expects everything from the strength of the 

 class conscious organisation of the workers, execrates 

 the crime consummated on the person of the President of 

 the French Republic as a brutal act, as the negation of 

 every principle of revolutionary logic. 



"We must cause the knowledge of its proper rights to 



