Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
rBY CABLE TO THE D1sPArcH.I

rBY CABLE TO THE D1sPATcH.I
LONDON, March 16.-( Copyright J.
There has been this afternoon an interesting
parade of revolutionists, at which your
present. and he did not 90 by invitation
The demonstration was described as a syna-
gogue parade of unemployed Hebrew work
men and sweaters victims, and the bills,
with a confidence which events have not
justified, announced that the chiet rabbi
would deliver a sermon to the victims afore-
said. The people met in Berner street.
where the whitechapel fend butchered his
fourth victim, and the synagogue to which
they afterward marched abuts on Mitre
Square, in which Jack the Ripper cut up
his fifth woman.
From the doorstep and a window of the
frowsy little tenement which is dignifed
with the name Of a club, and in which last
autumn men and women were carousing
within few feet of the yard in which the
murderer was actually and vigorously at
work, the revolutionary orators to-day
poured forth volumes of seditious eloquence,
the speaking of which in any other country
in Europe would have landed them quickly
in Jail.
SEDITIoN SWALLOWED.
The street was blocked up with the dirty,
unwholesome-looking men, and few score
slatternly women and girls, who swallowed
the sedition with almost as much palpable
pleasure as they would have gulped down
their gin or beer. The day being the He
brew Sabbath, the majority of the people
were Hebrews. from Moscow, Posen, War
saw, Odessa, Vienna, Berlin and elsewhere.
with leaven of German workmen and the
merest sprinkling of Englishmen.
During the whole of the afternoon your
correspondent heard scarcely word of En-
glish outside the speech of one Lewis
Lyons, professional agitstor, who has be-
come comparatively prosperous since he
first came into notoriety in connection with
the Trafalgar Square troubles. Lyons has
evidently been gotten hold of by persons
who have money, for he is able now to wear
good clothes, pay for printing and the hire
of halls, and for bands and banners.
A SPECIMEN SOCIALIST.
Next to Lyons the big man to-day was
Philip Krantz, a German Socialist of the
most advanced type, of whom it is probable
we shall hear much when, as some observers
predict, the ferment now going on in the
East End shall find vent in a riot, perhaps
in revolution. The most violent speeches
were made in German, and in barbarous
Hebrew jargon in very general use in the
East End.
The police, of whom there were plenty
about, were therefore able to preserve their
stolidity, even when they were being de-
nounced to their faces as murderers who
must be done away with upon the eve ofthe
social revolution. They gazed somewhat
suspiciously at number of busy propa-
gandists, men and women, who were doing
a good business in the sale of penny news
paper printed in Hebrew and entitled the
Workers Friend. In honor of the ami
versary of the Paris commune, which to-
DAVIS demonstrators will celebrate on Mon
day, the Workers Friend was red-edged and
bore upon its front page
A BIG, UNFURLED RED FLAG.
To the policeman's eye, therefore, there
was something wrong about the Workers
Friend, the sanguinary standard being to
the casual observer singularly out of place
on such modest sheet. But had the police
only known it, the letter-press savored
more of blood than the banner and the
borders. They did not know it, however,
and if they cherishedsuspicion they did not
give them aggressive expression.
The full-bodied ora tory lasted one hour,
and then, headed and heralded by blatant,
believing brass band, the procession started
for the synagogue. Your correspondent
recognized two of the bandsmen as old ac-
uuaintances, whom he last saw upon the
memorable November Sunday the police
and people fought for the possession of
Trafalgar. The big-drum man, upon that
occasion, had his skull and his instrument
cracked in a wild baton charge down the
Strand, near Wellington, the trombone
man
EXECUTED A FLANK MOVEMENT
which would have done credit to Field
Marshal Won Moltke, made his way by a
side street and alleys into the square, and
was carried back and deposited in the Char
ing Cross Hospital, all within half an hour
of the Wellington street scrimmage.
1t seemed quite like old times, but the
completeness of the resemblance was spoiled
BY the strangely altered behavior of the
police, who instead of clubbing the Social
lists, marched in front and by their side all
the way to the synagogue, clearing the way
and protecting them from aggrieved carmen
and cab drivers, with anxious solicitude.
Their forbearance even wext the length of
permitting a black flag to be carried Proba-
bly they would have winked at Phrygian
caps, and possibly at the red flag itself,
From start to finish the band walled forth
what was understood to be the 'Marseil-
laise," and no one objected except the
drivers of nervous horses who, exasperated
at being sent at short notice into the circus
business, said many unkind things.
GREW LIKE A SNOWFALL.
In the procession proper there were, per-
haps, 1000 men, and the number had in
creased five or six-fold by the time Duke
street. Miter square, had been reached.
The synagogue is big, dingy building,
in which the Rothschilds used to Worship
until an English Earl married daughter
of the house. Then, of course, they trans
ferred their pious persons to West End
synagogue, but they are still office-bearers
in the old house of prayer and occasional
| worshipers. The managers of the Duke
street synagogue are pre-eminently and in
tensely respectable, and the congregation
includes a considerable number of the ab-
horred sweaters.
Lewis LYONS choice of rendezvous was
therefore an unhappy one. The respectable
ofice-b bearers were convinced that the Sc
lection was made with malice aforethought,
and forthwith communicated with the city
of London police, who, less considerate than
their confreres of the Metropolitan force.
took possession of the synagogue and the
approaches thereto, and held them against
all comers.
DIDN'T COME TO BLOWS.
The big crowd surged and cursed in vain.
The policemen were long-limbed and broad
of chest. and their clubs were distressingIy