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VIOLENCE AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT
bed. This is the method that it is necessary to put into
execution in imitation of the Mauritanian kings, who,
under the pretext of honoring their rivals with gifts,
sent them clothes that had been sprinkled with an invisible
substance, with which contact alone has a fatal
effect." (12)
It has also been pointed out that, although Catholics
have rarely been given to revolutionary political
and economic
theories, the Mafia and the Camorra in Italy, the
Fenians in Ireland, and the Molly Maguires in America
were all organizations of Catholics which pursued the
same terrorist tactics that we find in the anarchist movement.
These are unquestionable facts, yet they explain
nothing. Certainly Zenker is justified in saying, "The
deeds of people like Jacques Clement, Ravaillac, Corday,
Sand, and Caserio, are all of the same kind ; hardly anyone
will be found to-day to maintain that Sand's action
followed from the views of the Burschenschaft, or
Clement's from Catholicism, even when we learn that
Sand was regarded by his fellows as a saint, as was
Charlotte Corday and Clement, or even when learned
Jesuits like Sa, Mariana, and others, cum licentia et
approbatione superiorum, in connection with Clement's
outrage, discussed the question of regicide in a manner
not unworthy of Nechayeff or Most." (13) It therefore
ill becomes the Catholic clergy to attack socialism on the
ground of regicide, as not one socialist book or one socialist
leader has ever yet been known to advocate even
tyrannicide. On the other hand, while terrorism has
been extraordinarily prevalent in Catholic countries, such
as France, Italy, and Spain, no socialist will seriously
seek to lay the blame on the Catholic Church. The truth
is that the forces which produce terrorism affect the
Catholic mind as they affect the Protestant mind. In