The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-02-25
IoNDoNa roorra.g rAaro.
Some Account OF tho Called Riot nnssl
the Cause OF the Frenzy.

the Cause OF the Frenzy.
(Lo1lilop SpeeiaI to the Notc York 1ymes.
Lnndon finds 1t difficult to Law hold
OF words lorcible enough to ct aractar-
ize properly it's own iducy. l;esearca
has shown that there has been ro pre-.
vious outbreak OF pillaging i'll London
slnce the Gordon riots a hundred and
six years ago. Ii needs no examina.
ton OF TIC records TO form a belief
that n" ~, in Europe has gone into
such k'"!iSh fiutter of panic as we
have recently had on such slender
grounds Tor at least twice that period.
Mondays riot was merely some Guy
Fawkes rutiianism on big scale, with
Llie efforts ot IL few thieves added.
-Four Or five hundred roughs found
| the Socialists aud the breaking up of
the workinYmcu'S meeting inspired
them witlIhc idea Of tui bulcuce. They
stated of aimlessly to shout, throw
| stones, and create Il racket, until they
were stopped. The intelligent police
simply remained behind in order to
guard the square where tho meetings
had been held, instead of following
the gang. The rougIls and thieves
thus got u free rein and grew bolder
as they made progress, until they
reached point where they were in
scnsatc with desire for destruction
and wholesale pillagiug. Finally,
thrifty policemen met and dispersed
them, as they might have done at any
stage OF the s0-cnllcd riot. This is
absolutely all there was of it; but all
lIcndon, in ridiculous trcmor OF agi-
tation, lcnpcd to the conclusion that
there was direct connection between
the windy harangucs of tho Socialist
| agltaiorS and tho subsequent action of
| the mob, aud surrendered itself to Il
panic. On Tuesday the denscst fog of
the winter prevailed. and everybody
SAW rioters in every fitting form that
was cnvcloprd in the darkness, and
suspected II cOnfla2ratiun ia every
skyhght reflection upon Il smoky wall.
On "Wednesday there was tho same tng,
and the excitement grew uutil people
were wild with frenzy. Sensible men
became iulIaics, and honest citizens
turned into purveN OrS OF false news.
at noon the town was ngOg with
stories OF battles waginS' ON the Thames
bridges, of the citv being barricaded,
and OF bodies of rioters cunvcrgiug
from all the outlying OF slumS. The
papers came out with naring reports
that an army of rioters was murcl.iug
on London from Greenwich. The
police utterly lost their heads and went
about warning the shopmen TO pui up
their shutters. At the dinner hour
citizens waited for the worst as il in q
GOWN IN the last cxtrenitics of q siege.
Conceive of the police OF New York
ordering the stores on Broadway aud
IN Union Square TO he closed on tht
strength OF a runOr that q gang oi
rOughs were smashing windows in
Williamsburg and Nou will have q
faint idea of the situation, only here
there were sixty miles of shops closed
Business amounting in the aggregate
TO millions was suspended. On Thurs.
day the f''g lifted and people began to
compare notes. They found tEal there
had been no riot and no attempt at 8
riot. -Four millions of people had
gone into Mysteries over the shecrcs,
connections of fancy that ever scared
II boy passing a graveyard in the dark
Ofcoursr Continental opinion rushed
to tho conviction that the outbreak was
the organized work of tile Socialists
and the organs OF despotism waggco
their heads in satisfaction at the thought
that England, which is an asylum tOi
all the refugees from their TYRANNY,
was rcaplng the reward of its iol
cr"ucc.' These ungcncrous and uEiu
lrlilgcnt criticisms were tclegraphrd
over to London by columns, and by
their ludicruuS cXa3geratiOns they
helped to bring LUudnncrs to thril
senses. The Paris Anarchists. o.
o'ursc, went into a dclirium of re
JpIcing, and it is feared that they may
ind here an incentive to more danger.
Gus rioIing on their own hook. The
; French authorities are taking great
precautions against an outbreak OF
Sunday, when many meetings are
advertised to be held in Bellcvillc and
Montmartre. However much mis-
chief Mondays outbreak NAV thus in.
directly do, thc outbreak is not to b,
taken seriously in itself save as a
warming to London to reform hen
Gillette and clumsy system at Scotland
Yard.
The rioting at leicester, however, il
Il really grave sign of the existing di>
trcss. 1t is to be noted that there only
factories and their owners were as
sailed. There was no plundcrina
whatever, which shows that the WORK
was due to grudgeS on the part of th,
unemployed. There is a fear that thi.
may spread to Nottingham, Birmiuu
hnin and Lancashire. There are
enough of these uucmploI cd here t,
sack the town if they chose to do So
but their possible movements are moi
70 be cont0undrd with the operation,
OF lawlcss criminals, much less will
the professional agitation Of q handful
OF Socialists.