The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-01
THE RIOTS AT AMSTERDAM.
The Governments Arbitrary Action
May Yet Lead to Serious Difficulty.
The Wife of Sir Charles Dixie Completely Pros
trated and Almost Demented Because of
the Disgrace Of Her Husband.
Serious Trouble Likely to Result from the
Suppression of En-Kiling.


Serious Trouble Likely to Result from the
Suppression of En-Killing
Cable Special.
The most prominent man In Holland to-day is
F. Domela Nieuwenhuis, who, all parties agree,
is destined to play most important role in the
crisis which Holland is about to undergo, and
who is acknowledged as the autocratic head of
all the revolutionary and disturbing forces of the
nation. Nieuwenhuis was once clergyman.
and inherited an income of $25. 600 year. He
gives away most all of this in charity, and has
founded cooperative bakeries. and is booming
socialism in every possible way. He is highly
educated, very eloquent. and is believed TO hold
the destiny of the country in his hand.
called upon him to-day at his house, No. 96
Malaka street, and was shown into his library.
On the walls were portraits of Lassalle. Karl
Marx and Darwin. On the table was large
Bible, on which lay copy of the Paris Cri du
Peuple. In few moments the great Socialist
king entered He bears most striking resem-
blance to Marot's famous picture of Christ. with
long, waving chestnut locks and beard with
dreamy but penetrating eyes. slight build, wiry
and watchful. He had been year in prison.
what the real cause of the riots Herr
NieuwenhuisW was asked
THE unwise and arbitrary suppression or
national sport, cruel in ITSELF but the only
tional pastime left to workingmen Gradual
compulsory education would lead the people to
see the brutality of such sport. but our govern
ment does not proceed by education, but by ar
btrary police measures The consequences will
eventually be overwhelming Already there has
been given a tremendous impetus to the impend-
ing socialist revolution.
Twill there be an outbreak Aug. 2, the Queens
birthday"
mo All is quiet at present but there will be
stormy times this winter, when the people are
pushed, by intense misery, into action Why,
the fact is, the government to-day has, by its
utter want OF sympathy with the people, and by
police vexatious persecution, in disregard of all
justice, put itself before the eyes of the nations
in exactly the same position as was the govern
ment of the Duke of Alva, in the sixteenth cen
fury. Like results come from like causes, and
history records that the outcome of the Duke of
Alva's government was the Dutch Republic"
But the present government is native not
foreign"
'They and the entire governing class have
estranged themselves from the people, just as if
they had never been born in the country. They
have accumulated enormous wealth by specula-
tions in Java. Sumatra, and in American rail
ways. They invest their boarded capital in the
3 per cents They never spend cent in Hol-
land unless they can't help it. They simply sit
in their soft, velvet arm-chairs and cut coupons"
SIN what American securities do they in
vestw
illinois Central, Chicago, Milwaukee g. st.
Paul, and Union Pacific"
when will this revolution occur?'
"This winter probably"
AS / bade Herr Nieuwenhuis good-by, adj
dressed him as the dutch Parnell." He said:
mo, not Parnell He is in the wrong trade
altogether His ideas of home rule will never
satisfy the Irish people. Parnell is failure
The Irishmen will never be happy until some
wise, clear-headed Irish Socialist appears on the
scene"
1 then talked with several representative
citizens of Amsterdam. They all felt that it
was mistake to suppress the eel game, which,
although hard on the cells. is the only sport OF
them. In fact, it was as great a shock to them
as the suppression of the Derby would be in
England or base ball in America, and the gravest
conseq are likely to ensue. and it gives an
opportunity to the Socialists which they are sure
to make use Of / afterwards SAW a leading So
cialist. who said: "Our people are not allowed
to have any weapons in their possession, but
every Dutch workman can get pick and shovel,
and it is very easy to cut the dykes and destroy
the whole country. This they are sure to do out
or sheer desperation If the present misery and
persecution continue
The following incident shows the feeling
among the lower classes. This afternoon went
to the scene of the late fight While taking
notes on the bridge of the Linden canal crowd
of burly fshwomen and boatmen, excited by
schnapps, came toward me and were going to
throw me into the canal installing me for a
policeman in plain clothes. | at once pulled out
of my pocket visiting card l happened to have
bearing the NAME 'Damela Nieuwenhuis," the
famous Dutch Socialist. / pronounced this
name. The effect was like magic. The threats
changed to cheers; and / only escaped by fleeing
to passing cab. Socialism is advancing with
tremendous strides