Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-02
ROCK ISLAND, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1892.
PARIS WAS PLACID.
May Day in the Anarchichal
Storm Center.
COLD STEEL RULES THEMERRY CITY

All Professions and Outdoor Meetings
men and Their Wives Meet at HYDE
Park, London-A "Red" Orator Rough
ly Handied-Trouble at Liege and Sew
eral Bombs Exploded-Quiet at All the
European Capitals-Small Gatherings
at New York and Chicago.
PARIS. May 2.-Yesterday z. was pleas
ant day, and the gay Parisians seemed to
try to forget the dangers supposed to en-
compass them. The boulevards and parks
were crowded and the patronage of restau-
rants and cafes was exceptionally large.
Women and children walked unterrified in
the streets. The churches were full, and
the strain of apprehension seemed tempor-
arily to have relaxed. In the barracks, at
the police stations, and in the districts
around the public buildings, however,
thousands of armed men stood ready from
1 O'Clock in the morning to march out at a
moments notice and shoot to kill. All
day squads of cavalry and mounted police
clattered through the streets to the relief
of the troops on guard before daybreak,
and occasionally the heavy tread of in
fantry reminded the promenaders that
both services in the garrison had been
mobilized against expected dangers
Workingmen Met Indoors.
Every public building was garrisoned
with fifty or sixty infantry with ball car
tridges in their rifles Outside sentinels
at intervals of ten yards patrolled the
street No civilian was allowed to ap-
proach within 100 yards of any national or
municipal building. All who wished to
60 by were obliged to go round, and no
body demurred, as the sentinels were
known to be under strict instructions to
shoot upon slight violation of orders No
attempt was made by workingmen to hold
street professions or outdoor meetings.
They held several monster indoor meet
ings, with a total attendance of 100000 or
more, and at least an equal number were
turned away from the overcrowded halls
Motley Gathering at Belleville.
The principal meeting was in the Sale
Favie at Belleville All the socialist
orators were present at this meeting, and
most of the members of the different
labor groups" sat in the audience, while
their representatives crowded the plat
lOTul. mere were dUOuU 30 groups" or
organizations represented, and it was a
motley crowd from every part of under
class Paris and its suburbs The speeches
were fiery and often incendiary. Rava-
chol was deified by one speaker amid
Kisses and cheers. In general, however,
the socialists had matters their own way
to the exclusion of the anarchists.
Demanded a General Divide.
The rich were denounced as robbers who
must be deprived of their plunder
Demands were made that the bourgeoisie
should be compelled to give up houses and
land to be divided among the poor The
bourgeoisie were denounced also = as
towards and thieves, and one speaker said
the first thing the socialists would do
when they should have elected the majori-
ty of parliment would be to seize all the
factories and set the owners to shovelling
coal for the engines. There was heated
debate over resolutions to the effect that
the laborcr owned the earth and all he
helped it to produce, but the resolution
eventually went through.