The Labor enquirer., 1884-11-15
Foreign News.

How serious the news from India is,
can be discerned by the care with which
it is suppressed by the capitalistic press,
and from the suggestions made by men
experienced in the affairs of the coun-
try. When Indian officials are going
out leaving their families behind them,
and militarymen are recommending the
establishment of fortified refugees for the
European population in the event of
danger, the storm must be brewing.
Brigandage is reported to be largely on
the increase in Egypt Raids are made
on villages, and men, cattle and valu-
ables carried off; the whole country is in
disturbed state generally, and the
hatred against England and Englishman
for being, as is everywhere believed, the
cause of the misery In the country, is
deep and widespread
Further disturbances are reported
from Lewes and Skye arising out of the
Crafters refusing to pay rent and repos-
sessing themselves of the land of their
forefathers Endeavors were made to
induce the men to come to some compro-
mise by the Highland Association, the
sympathies of whose members appear to
have been asleep while the landlords
plundered the Crofters and Cottars. but
suddenly become alive when the op-
pressed rise against their prosecutors.
The Crofters have right on their side
and it is only by persistent determlna-
ton that they can secure redress for
their wrongs. The young men it is said
are showing spirit of lawlessness, and
the Highland Association. which we are
informed is actively supported and coun-
tenanced by a large body of, clergy, and
endeavoring to check and suppress it.
Where, we should like to know, were
these same clergy when the landlords
were carrying on their legalized lawless-
ness
By decree of the chief of police of St.
Petersburg, the portraits of the car and
other members of the imperial family
are to be removed from the hotels, res
taurants, tea houses and other places of
public resort. In holy Russia, the peo-
pie, it would seem, no longer doff their
caps to the effigv of their Father" with
the same superstitious reverence as of
old. This is a good sign. Evidently the
times are moving.
| The revolutionary movements through
out the dominions of the sultan remain
unsurpassed. The revolt in Yemen.
the province of Arabia to the north of
Alden, is in full swing and reinforce
ments have been DISPATCHED from Con-
stantinople to aid in putting it down.
Education in Russia is being carried
on IN the face of no ordinary difficulties.
Text books are mutilated to suit the po-
litical views of reactionary ministers,
universities are closed and any attempts
on the part of the students to show dis
approval by demonstrations or otherwise
are promptly put down by squadrons of
Cossacks and other instruments of des-
potism. Yet in spite of all these OBJ
stacles the cause of progress gains
ground. IS
| 1t will be well if the rulers of bour-
geois-ridden France would lend an ear
to the sounds of the dynamite explosions.
which are now of almost daily occurrence
in that country. While they are carry
ing on their piracies against the unof-
Tending people of Madagascar and China
the workers are preparing to take their
affairs into their own honds.
As an instance, correspondent writ
ing to the Cri du, Peuple, of Paris, from
Monceau-les- Mines, ys:-"We haveno
longer any hope save In revolution.
Four Socialist committees are lin course
of formation at Pouilleux. At Ciry-le-
Noble, the groups number already sew
eral hundreds adherents. At Blanzy,
Sain. Vallier and Sauvignes two-thirds
| of the population are Socialists"