The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-03-11
Letter from London,
REVIEW OF THE LONDON RIOT. HOW THE
CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT CAME TO
GRIEF. "a TERRIBLE SNOW STORM" IRV-
ING AS ssMEPUISTO.'


A REVIEW OF THE LONDON RIOT. HOW THE
CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT CAME TO
GRIEF. "a TERRIBLE SNOW STORM" IRV-
ING AS ''MEPHISTO."
Correspondence of the journal.
LONDON, Feb. 10, 1886 1t has been some
time since | have had the pleasure of sending
letter to you, and it is in consequence not of a
lack of news but because for the last two
months l have been unusually busy. / consider
myself very fortunate in having chosen this
year for a visit to England as it has been Il no.
table year in politics. ditto in bad weather, and
now we have just experienced an outbreak of
mob violence the like of which has not been
seen since the famous Gordon riots of the last
century, | am strongly inclined to say that l
was in the midst of it and saw it all but my
well known devotion to absolute truth even in
smallest details gives me strength to resist such
a temptation and | confess that bad fortune
kept me in an undiSturbed part of the city and
| could only 90 and view the damage after the
row was over and CLEAN what information |
could from eye witnesses. During the past
year there has been a great amount of misery
among the laboring classes of London owing to
lack of employment consequent upon hard
times. and many large meetings have been held
by the unemployed, demanding that the Gov
ernment should furnish them with work. The
Socialists have seized the opportunity at these
meetings to air their views on communism and
a fresh distribution of property, and have not
hestated to counsel violence against the upper
and moneyed classes, but their hearers have
kept the peace until last Monday, the first Of
February. On that day mass meeting was
I'raf1Ip1r
Laborers and Workingmcns Societies, and ut
the same time and place the Social Democratic
Federation appointed a meeting of that organi-
Zation. The police We're informed, and as usual
in such cases, detailed an extra force of men to
he present. but as it afterward appeared, the
force was too small and utterly inadequate. for
Trafalgar Square was packed on that day with
from twenty to twenty-five thousand men. The
real Workingmen held their meeting and pass
ed resolutions in an orderly manner, but the
Socialist leaders, MeSsrS. Burns. IIyndman,
Champion and Williams, then began to make
inf1ammatory harangueS, limited at violent
measures. and when finally one of them Sug-
gested a procession to Hyde Park large num-
Der of the mob, comprising the worst elements
of London, the thieves. rutlianS, and scum of
the city, started off up Pail Mall Many of the
most famous club houses are on this thorough
fare, and in front of one of thcm the Carlton,
the mob paused and Burns said, 'There are in
that club thousands of men who live in luxury
"h"c we dlc s'al NiLS' po,' 'i's 'iiS loi'o"
er> seized stones, gravel, and blocks of wood
and in less time than it takes to write of it
every win low in the buildings front was bro
ken. The same thing was done at the Reform,
Conservative, Arthur's. Brooks, New niver-
si'i lii' DeN Nlu's' anu d, ii'''iH siiois
Parliament caught by the mob We're i'll treated
and robbed, end when Hyde Park was reached,
carriages We're stopped, their occupants turned
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'orh from tntl'i' lhe Neliic',S uc>iro!eu' anu
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removed Sltlsh' ana CABS were haf'ilI 10 De oi,-
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