Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-26
RIOTOUS
Demonstration of Unemployed
WOrkmen i'm Berlin
Almost at the Gates of Emperor
Williams Castle.
Local Labor Agitators Get in
Their Fine Work.
POLICE SWEPT ASIDE BY THE
MADDENED THRONG
IN THEIR MARCH ALONG THE
UNTER DEN LINDEN.
IN THEIR MARCH ALONG THE
UNTER DEN LINDEN.

IN THEIR MARCH ALONG THI
UNTER DEN LINDEN.
Finally Checked by the Castle Guard
Who Had Been Ordered Under Arm
and Had Loaded Their Rifles With Bal
Cartridges-Sixty or Seventy Wounded
Before the Retreat Commenced--Gen
orally Believed That the Real Struggl,
Between the So-Called Socialists ant
the Government is About to Begin
Platform of the German Socialists
The Emperor Declares Absolute Au
thority in Very Emphatic Terms.
BERLIN, Feb. 26.-The emperor
Wednesday, in his speech to the mem
bers of the Brandenburg diet, who ban,
| quoted him, caused a sensation by re.
marking that: 1.-THE people need not
care for party squabbling and chatter
ing. / go my way and that is the right
way. We are in state of transition
and destined for great things. I'll con
duct you into splendid times, and those
who will not help me may as well shake
the German dust from their feet. | ask
you to conlide in and help me-"
Unemployed Workmen.
But this was as nothing to the sensa-
ton which the unemployed laborers of
this city created Thursday. That the
spirit of discomfort is spreading with
alarming force throughout the German
empire is fact nobody will deny. 1n-
deed few people really imagine the ex-
tent of the bitter feeling growi lg
against the emperor and those who
would drive out of Germany, or grind
to powder, all those who oppose him.
An instance of the heated though slum-
bering passions of the masses was eX-
emplitied at / o'clock Thursday after
noon, and should serve as a severe warm
ing to the advisers of Emperor William.
At the hour mentioned a body of 5000
or 1000 unemployed met, by precon-
certed arrangement in a public square
and passed series Of infammatory res
olutions, denouncing their employer
and the system of government which
enabled the latter to crush the working
man beneath the iron heel of capital,
and calling upon the government to
take steps to protect the interests of the
working class.
Chance for Agitators.
The news of this bold gathering in de-
fiance of the recent order of the author
tiles, prohibiting such meetings, spread
with electrical rapidity throughout the
city. The result was that the local
labor and socialist agitators determined
to take advantage Of the excited uneln-
ployed men to make demonstration be-
fore the castle of the emperor. The po-
lice upon the spot tried to argue with
the workmen, but without shaking their
determination to carry out the project
outlined They were warned that such
a demonstration would probably result
in bloodshed, but, led by the socialist
agitators, the workmen formed in col
umn and marched from the square
mentioned in the direction of Unter den
Linden, the most celebrated avenue in
Berlin.
'"To the Castler'
The onward swe tof the workmen
was at first irresistible. The police were
utterly unaLle to cope with the roaring,
swelling enthusiastic crowd, shouting
and cheering, encouraged by thousal Is
of other people who watched their prog
ress through the streets. Was it a reyo-
luton? was the question heard on all
sides.
On marched the cheering workmen,
crying, ITO the castler ITO the castle!'
in manner recalling somewhat the
scene which occurred in Paris July IA
and 10, 1850, when mob marched upon
the great castle prison of France, shout
ing, "a bas la bastilel" "A bas la bas-
tile" and eventually pulled down that
historical pile and conducted its COVER
nor and other of the officers to the Place
de La Greve, where their heads were cut
off and carried on pixies through the
streets.
In somewhat similar fashion these
thousands of dissatisfied German work
men, among whom a number of women
and children mingled, reached the Unter
den Linden brushing aside like flies the
police who attempted to bar their prog
reSs.
Upon the Unter Den Linden.
Arrived upon the Inter den Linden,
beneath the statue of Frederick the
Great, a halt was made and a socialist
leader made a passionate address to the
throng, urging them to carry their dem
onstration up to the gates of the castle.
Loud cheers greeted the suggestion
and then, at a signal from a prominent
socialist, who seemed to be the chosen
leader of the mob, the workmen began
singing the Marseillaise," and marched,
cheered by thousands who had gathered
on the broad avenue to witness the
demonstration, towards the castle.
Charged by Police.
The workmen passing through a line
of police which barred their passage,
ralling several policemen heels over
mead i'll so doing, had nearly reached
the castle gates, where the guards had
been ordered under arms and had loaded
their rifles with bah cartridges, when a
strong detachment of police suddenly
threw Themselves across the short por-
ton of the thoroughfare intervening be-
tween the rioters and the castle, and
then, as a sharp word of command, the
officers of the law made a determ-
ined charge upon the head of the work
mems column. The latter for a moment
or so, uerved by the roaring cheers of
thousands, bravely and stubbornly with
Ftood the attack of the police, and
pressed onward by those in the rear,
actually managed to gain headway and
to beat back the powerful police de-
tachment. The latter, however, rallied,
and hitting furiously right and left,
wounded scores upon scores of work
men. who fell bleeding beneath the feet
of the officers of the law.
The Retreaf Ordered