Omaha daily bee., 1892-03-07
[rRoM Yesterdays SECOND EDITioS.l
SOARING THE KINGS
Serious State of Affairs in Europe is Alarm
ing the Governments.
MISERY OF THE WORKING CLASSES
Public Suffering is Now Almost General
Throughout the Continent,
MEN ARE DESPERATE THROUGH HUNGE
Anarchists Find Ready Converts Among
Those Who Lack Food and Clothes.
WHAT LABOR DAY MEANS TO EUROPE
Approach of the Day IL Viewed With Much
Agitation by Those Who Recall the
Last-Chances for Trouble
Examined.
lcopwtoh,ed 1892 bv James Gordon Bcnnctt.1

tCopntGhted 1892 by James Gordon Bcanett1
| PARIS, March 5.-TNew York Herald Cable
| Special to InE BEE. THE European gov
| ernments are leglnning to be alarmed at the
spread of public misery. The Berlin riots
and the disturbances which have followed
them in Dantzig and Brunswick are proofs OF
an abnormal state of things And whom we
find even the workingmen of a petty town in
the duchy Anhalt take to pillaging the baker
and butcher shops, we may be sure that the
danger Is real.
In Austria the Prevailing distress was un-
suspected, even by the government. Yet in
Vienna alone more than 10000 unemployed
workngmen are wandering about the streets
and highways near the city. Assaults with
violence are becoming common. In the
northern provinces of Hungary the misery
Is terrible. More than 10000 peasants have
been forced to subsist on roots and the
bark Of trees. 1 could name villages in
which parents have been driven to kill the
children they have had no means of feeding.
In Russia, on the other hand, there is no
change for the better. Whole provinces are
threatened with starvation. But If the
wretchedness is great, there is much charity
abroad. The soldiers in many Of the Russian
regiments ere sacrificing part of their rations
of bread to alleviate the distress in the rural
districts
Four Other Suffering Kingdoms.
The situation is not much more hopeful in
Italy. There the misery Is not confined to
the poor. 1t affects every class Of soci
ETY.. From published statistics 1t would
seem that during the past year the consump-
tion of food has diminished in the following
-
| per cent; coffee, 81 per cent; sugar, 12 per
cent; tobacco, II per cent. These figures
| are lamentably eloquent. Despite all this
| tn. Italian ministry does not think of re-
| ducing the army and navy estimates, which
| arc commonly believed to explain the present
| misery. Italy aspires to play the part OF
| great power for which she is not suit. d oy
| the state of her finances ana her public
| credit.
| The financial disorder in three other Eu-
ropean countries has led to public crisis. In
Greece the king has been mpelled to dis
| miss his advisers because they could not fill
the treasury. In Portugal the downfall of
| the government is imminent, and lastly in
| Spain, where the distress is comparatively
| small, matters have grown serious, owing to
| the faults Of which the cabinet has been
| guilty within the last twelve months. Ex-
| changes have risen in unprecedented ways,
| aud holders of securities IN all the three
| states l have last mentioned are growing
| alarmed.
Waiting for Labor Day.
| 1t is not strange that all these symptoms
combined should have excited grave fears as
to the course things may take on the 1st OF
| May. The little German emperor talks of
| prO int arr "a n
disorders. He proposes that anarchists who
commit crimes should be liable to trial in any
| of the countries leagued together in which
the offender may be captured. 1t Is easy to
foresee, however, that this proposal, which
| would virtually create a kind of inter-
| national court, will not be agreed
| to, at all events by France and England, who
| are jealous of their own authority. But ex-
| ceptional measures OF some sort will have to
be taken.
Greater Significance this Year.
Our Labor day this year will have much
greater significance than on former oc-
casions. The 1st of May falls on Sunday
and thus many worlsingmen who in the or
| binary course would not have stopped their
work te join in manifestation, will be free.
In France again, the date will coincide with
the municipal elections, which will
then be held in every city
| except Paris, and which may
give rise to disorder. The Paris police,
however think that the day will pass by
without dangerous riots, except in the out
lying districts-St Etienre and maybe at
t'ourmies, where the anarchists talk OF re-
newing the disastrous affrays of last year.
In Paris the precautions which will be
taken should keep the agitation within
bounds. .,- ..
The English anarchists are powerless. The
English workingmen will put forth their
whole strength in the great strike which the
mines are to ineugurate next week.
| r- Where Trouble VIII he.
We may have more disturbances in Ham
burg and Berlin where, it is thought, the
ultrasociaists may try to effect the release
of their leaders. But even there the author
tiles expect to be able to repress the trouble
More anxiety is felt in Vienna, where the
anarchists are making rapid progress.
Strikes are also expected at Brunn.
The course OF events in Belgium depends
on the chamber. Should the reform OF the
constitution be voted, all will be calm on
the lst of May. Should the reform In ques-
tion not be voted, we may see violent out
breaks, amounting almost to a revolution.
The Belgian government is keeping sharp
lookout o 5,.e-
Two countries can hardly hope TO escape
disorder, namely, Italy and SPAN. The trial
of the rioters arrested on the 1st Of May,
last year, in Italy, is not yet ended. and the
anarchists do not conceal their indig-
nation. Fresh arrests are already
under consideration. In Spain much ex-
asperation has been caused by the execution
| OF the Jerez anarchists. Redhot repu blican-
ism prevails in Barcelona, which has been
excited by the executions and by the recent
dynamite explosion in one of the government
offices The allegiance of the army is
strongly suspected and IL is not likely that
the troops will be called out to repress possi-
bic riots, a fact which will give the malcon-
tents great opportunities.
Serious. but Not Tragic.