The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-02-24
IoNDoS,s FooLIa PANIC.
Some nccnEnt OF the ;o-Caiied Riot and
sl,o Cause oi The ErcnZy.


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o; words tpr~iuIe cr..u-!h 70 cii'iracler-
iZ:. properly lis OK: iu'"cN. hesearch
!.> >i."wi. liza; :I:rir !.as been 20 pre-
r,ou- uuibleaA or plI.a2!h@ III London
,,i:cc Tie GoldJm lioi> - hundred and
siy years ago. Ii l;etdS no examine.
son OF Tie records to form q belief
'h.., ~, cit, In Europe has gone int"
s,c:. fn,,ii-.i 1l;ulrr o: pst;'ic as ~.
i.;.yr recently had Oil sgcIl slender
sTour,!s ;or III least twice that period.
Nlput;av'S rot WAS merely Some Gay
l',u ks rulii.;ni>in Oil :, 5;g sale, with
;i1c efforts ul Il few thieves ad.tt'i.
Four or five hundred rougil> found
themselves together, and The efforts of
tic Socialists and tile breaking up OF
the wnrkingmru:> luccii::g inspired
them iii, the ilr;4 of til, bu!e cc. The!
stated Oft a!mle>siy to stiou1, throw
stones, and create racket, unill they
were stopped. The Intelligent police
simply remained behind III order to
guard the square where the meetings
had bec. held, instead Of following
the gang. The roughs and thieves
!iiuS got a free rein and grew bolder
as ;hey made progress, until they
reached a point whrre they were III
seiisate with desire for destruction
ami Wholesale piIlaging. Finally,
thrifty policemen met and dispersed
them, as they might have done at an,
stage of the so-cal!cd riot. This IS
absolutely all there was of it; but al
/ London, in = ridiculous treInOr OF agl-
tatiuu, lcapcd to the conclusion hat
there was direct connection between
the windy barangues Of the Socialist
asitaiors. and the subsequent action OF
the mob, and surrendered itself to Il
panic. On Tuesday the dcnscst fog OF
the winter prevailed. and everybody
saw rioters in every fitting form that
Was cnvrlopcd i'll the darkness, and
suspected a confagration i'll every
>kyii"ht reflection upon asmoky wall.
On "Wednesday there WAS the same log,
and the excitement grew until people
were wild with lrcnZv. Sensible men
became lunalicS, and honest citizens
turned into purveyor> OF false news.
At moan the town was ag"g with
stories of battles waging on the T 'anes
bridges, Of the CITY being bar'ic lead d,
and OF bodies OF rioters convergIn9
from all the outlying Of slums. The
papers came out with harinS reports
that an army of rioters was marching
on London from Greenwich. The
police utterly lost their heads and sc
abou! warning the shop,Den to put UP
;hrir shutters. at the dinner hour
citizens waited for the worst as if in a
,uwli in the last eXtrcluities of siege.
Conceive of the police OF New York
ordering the stores on Broadway and
IN Union Square TO be closed on tilr
strength or rulnor that gang OF
,ou.hs were smashing windows III
! Williamsburg and You will have a
faint idea Of the situation, only aere
there were sixty miles Of shops closed.
Business amounting in the aggregate
10 millions was suspended. On Thurs
day the fog lifted and people began to
compare notes. They found tlat there
| .lad been no riot and no attempt at u
riot. Four millions Of people had
gone into hvStcrics over the sheercst
cuncoc1iuns of fancy that ever scared
boy passing q graveyard III the dark.
Ofcoursc Continental opinion rushed
TO the conviction that the outbreak Was
the organized work of the Socialists,
and the organs OF despotlsm wagged
their heads in satisfaction at the thought
that England, which is an asylum for
all the refugees from their TYRANNY ,
was reaplng tine reward of its Iol-
crance. These ungenerous and unli-
trllgent criticism, were te!cgraphed
over to London BY columns, and by
their ludcruus exaggerations they
helped to bring Londoners to their
senses. Tie Paris Anarchists. OF
o,ursc, went into q del!lium Of re
i,icing, and it is feared that they may
find here an incentive to more dan2er-
Gus rioting on their own hook. The
French authorities are taking great
precautions against all outbreak on
| Sunday, when many meetings are
advertised tv he held in BeIevilie anti
Montmartre. However much mis-,
chief Mondays outbreak MAY thus III
directly do, the outbreak is not to b.'
taken seriously in itself save as a
warning to London to reform her
effetc and clumsy system at Scotland
Yard.
The rioting at leicester, however, is
a really grave sign of the existing di>-
treSs. Ii is to be noted that there only
factories and their owners were as
sailed. There was no 1lundering
whatever, which shows that the work
was due 10 grudgeS on the part OF The
unemployed There is a fear that this
nay spread 10 Nottingham, Birmin9-
ham and Lancashire. There are
enough Of these unemployed here t.
s;tck the town ii they chose to do 81,
! but ihcir possible movements are not
TO hc contoundcd with the operations
of lawleSs criminals, much less with
the professional agitation Of = handful
ot Socialists.