WHO WOULD BE A KING?
It will soon be difficult to get a person to consent to remain at the head of a government. Since the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837, 46 attempts have been made to kill members of reigning families and heads of government. Nearly every king and emperor in Europe has been shot at, and some of them several times. Luckily, a sovereign is an extremely hard target to hit, and, hence, out of all these attempts, only seven have been 1 ; of which four were in South America. The best rulers are not much safer than the worst. Queen Victoria has been assaulted six times, and the life of the unsurper, Louis Napoleon, was attempted six times. In tVe United States, where nothing important could be gained or changed by the murder of a president, thero are always 'bummers' and fanatics who can be developed " 'o assassins. It is but too evident tnat our president will be compelled to go aL-ut with more precautions than formerly. We have had two awful warnings that, even in tho healthy air of liberty, pernicious creatures aro bred. —American paper.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3217, 21 October 1881, Page 4
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191WHO WOULD BE A KING? Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3217, 21 October 1881, Page 4
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