Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-03-04
BISMARCK WEEKLY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, MARCH 4 1892.

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by groups of well dressed people, be-
longing to the upper or middle classes,
and were frowned upon only by those
moving in government or military cir
cles. The riot is almost the only thing
talked about, and is looked upon as a
sort of reply upon the part of the people
to the emperor's remarks to the "Loyal
Brandenburgers." The ice, it is ad-
mitted, has been broken, and the social
list leaders are said to be preparing for a
monster demonstration in the near
future.
The general opinion is that the real
struggle between the so-called socialists
and the government is about to begin,
the signal for it having been given Feb.
4, when it was announced that no men,
bers of the Socialist party had been in
vited to the reception given by the
emperor to the chamber Of deputies,
while no discrimination was made
against other delegates, though many
of them were known to be bitterly OPP
posed to certain government measures.
it was then said that the emperor and
Chancellor Won Caprivi took this step in
orker to indicate their resentment of the
determined opposition offered by the
socialist delegates to the education bill.
During the passage of workingmen
through the streets dodgers outlining
the platform of the German Socialist
party were freely distributed among the
people.
BERLIN, Feb. 27.-The citizens Of
Berlin have passed one of the most rest
less nights in the memory of the past
generation. The echoes of the rioting
before the castle of Emperor William
of Germany spread not only far into the
night, but the embers of the affair were
still glowing fercely in the morning.
From sunset until sunrise encounters
between the police and rioters continued
at intervals in different parts of the
city, mostly, however, in the eastern
districts. Heads were broken right and
left, and the police captured many
prisoners. Throughout the night the
entire police force of the city
was kept on duty, and, in sew
eral quarters, detachments of troops
were kept under arms. 1t is diff
cult to picture the state of wild
excitement and amazement which pre-
walls here, and, according to the news
papers of this city, in all European capt.
tails. Such an occurrence as that wit
messed on the Inter den Linden would
not have caused much excitement if it
had occurred in Berlin or in London,
where brushes between the police and
large bodies of the people are not infre-
quent. But here in the capital, ground
down under the presence Of soldiers and
military police, the rioting attains a
point of very great Significance. It re-
vealed as if by a thunderclap the fact
that the emperor is most unpopular with
the masses and that the people are be-
ginning to feel convinced that the
damning words recently attributed to
the emperor must be the
vaporinCs of a Crowned Mailman,
and that the ruler of the German en-
pire is suffering from dementia. This
is the conclusion that the people are
gradually coming to, and there is no
doubt that the empire is in danger. It
is not intended by this to intimate that
it j. probable that the empire will soon
be swept away by the waves of a revo-
l~utionary movement; the time for that
upheaval has not yet arrived. But the
mutterings of a threatening storm are
heard in the distance, and the first
flashes of lightning were seen on the
Inter den Linden, and the rumblings Of
thunder was heard from night until
morning. It is felt on all sides that the
emperor, by announcing practically to
the Brandenburgers that he had flung
down the gauntlet to the people, and
that he would drive from their homes
and into the exile of emigration all those
who opposed his will, gave the signal
for the struggle between himself as Il
Am the state" and the people of the en-
pire who are asserting their rights to
have their wrongs redressed by their
sovereign.
The emperor, 1t Is recalled, at q pre-
vious Brandenberg banquet exclaimed:
"'There is only one ruler in the country.
I am that ruler, and I will endure no
other" And it is remembered at
Munich, a short time ago, he wrote in
the visitors book: 'Suprema lex regis
voluptas" (the supreme law of the land
is the kings willy. These and other
such sayings credited to the emperor
have not passed unheded in Germany
and have left ranking sores in the
hearts of the people.
1t was stated in these dispatches that
the emperor watched the rioting from
the windows OF an apartment on the
first floor of the castle. It is now ad.
ded that he smiled, though his face wa,
deadly pale, when he saw the people
beaten down beneath the swords of the
military police.
Everything that it is possible to bring
up against the emperor is consequently
now being recited and revamped. burn
ished up and redainted in more glowing
colors by the socialists and others wh(
feel most bitter against the German
emperor. These people say if he imag
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