Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-02-08
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Ten Thousand Starving Brit
ishers Assemble in the
Streets Of London.
S0c1alistsc Speeches and the
Presence of the Police
Precipitate a
Riot.
The Mob Moves Through the Streets,
Cutting Buildings and Defying
the Authorities.
Serious RIOT in the Pennsylvania
Mining Regions and Anti
Chinese Troubles
at Seattle.
FOREIGN.
D IN RIOT.

EORE1GN. /
ENDED IN A RIOT.
London, Feb. S-The Starving me-
,hanics" held a meeting to-day at Ira
square, around the Nelson monu-
ment, which resulted in o riot. The pro-
,eedings were opened with ten thousand
men present. The police were present
in large numbers. Conspicuous among
toe leaders of the multitude was Burns,
who ran as the socialistic candidate in
Nottingham in the recent election. He
assembled the pedestal of the Nelson
column for the purpose of delivering a
harangue,b but the police politely ordered
him down. This he refused to do, ap-
pealing to the crowd to resist any inter
ference with the exercise of popular
rights, put the officers pushed
their way through the excited and resis-
ting mass of humanity and by force re-
moved Burns from the pedestal. By
this Tins the crowd had vastly augmen-
ted and the streets were packed with the
snrging mob. The stir in the elevated
spot where the Burns incident took
place was easily seen all oyer the area
covered by the concourse and the sight OF
helmets and uniforms and the struggle
accepted as Q visible proof that the
night had commenced against law
This intelligence was responded to with
q fierce howl, and an attempted rush
from all directions to the point of inter-
est was made. Burns now had
been removed some distance
from the position he attempted to oc-
cupy. He became emboldened by the
moi and made 8 desperate effort to re-
cover his lost ground. He was effectiy-
ely helped by the mob who's brushed the
officers and all ont of the way. and the
orator was 500 pressed against the
monument. He quickly re.asoended the
pedestal, accompanied by a number of
socialist leaders. Burns waved the red
bag to to the assemblage as q signal of
his triumph over the authorities and he
was greeted with deafening shouts.
Burns now leisurely finished his adj
dress. He then read the fiercely worded
resolution, denouncing the authors of the
present distreas in England, and demand
ed that parliament start pIoli ks
to give employment and bread to tens of
thousands of deserving men who were
out of work through no fault of their
own. but because Of bad government.
He declared that it wal the duty of the
government to afford every facility for
the employment of British capital,
for the benefit of the British people and
give preference to British en-
terprise over foreign and as
serted that the time had arrived for
parliament to earnestly legislate for the
relief of depression Il English agricul-
tural industry. The resolution also de-
manded the Immediate appointment Of
q minister of commerce and agriculture,
and concluded with the resolve that
copies should be forwarded to Gladstone
and Salisbury, Parnell and the board of
public works. The reading of the reso-
luton was accompanied with fierce COM.
and short, explanatory speeches by
various orators who stood with Burns.
Some of these oratlons went SO far as to
warn the government that although
starving mechanics" were now attempt
ing to draw to their needs by quiet and
peaceful agitation, they were bound to
get bread, nad they would get it by
attacking the baker shops next if the
government did not come to their relief
Burns in ono of these speeches, de-
nounced the present house of commons
as a body of landlords and capitalists
for whom hanging was too good. He
also declared that the people
had assembled to summon parliament to
an immediate relief of distressed British
workmen; that the people wanted the
question settled at once, peaceably if
possible, otherwise q revolution was in
evitable. This aggravated the huge
mass. The police had reformed
with increased force and
they made another assault, and
succeeded in pushing their way
up to- the pedestal. They reached this
point just as the resolution which had
already been offered and seconded was
about to be submitted to the mob for
approval. The officers at once ordered
the proceedings to be discontinued on
the pedestal and commanded Burns and
his colleagues to come down. This they
refused to do and the officers dragged
them down by force and drove them
from the pedestal. 1t was evident that
Burns expected that an application of
violence to him would prscipitate o riot,
and it was also apparent that the Off
GERS Immediately engaged in the removal
Of the orators feared an attack,
but the men composing
the mob were not in a fighting hnmor
and contented themselves for a time
with hooting the police, smothering
them with -four, dirt and garbage. The
officers behaved admirably under the
abuse and showed no resentment.
After their election neither Burns nor
his colleagues made any further attempt
to get back. They at ono left the scene
and proceeded to the reform club build.
ng, where they mounted the
lteps and pointed to the doors and