Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-03-04
A Conflict Takes Place in Berlin
Between the Police and a
RiOtOus Mob.
The Idle WOrkmen Attacked the
Emperor's Palace But Had
to Retreat.
This is Thought to Be But the
Beginning of a Great Social
isr Revolt.
The Gathering Storm.

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a sensation by remarking that 1.-THE
people need not care for party squab-
bling and chattering. I go my way and
that is the right way. We are in a state
of transition and destined for great
things. I will conduct you into SPLEEN
did times, and those who will not help
me may as well shake the German dust
from their feet. l ask you to confde in
and help me-"
But this was as nothing to the sensa-
tion which the unemployed laborers of
this city created during the day. That
the spirit of discomfort is spreading
with alarming force throughout the
German empire is a fact nobody in their
senses will deny. Indeed, few people
really imagine the extent of the bitter
feeling growing against the emperor and
those who would drive out of Germany
o. grind to powder all those who op-
pose him." An instance of the heated,
though slumbering passions Of the
masses, was exemplified at / o'clock p.
m, and should serve as a warning to
the advisors of Emperor William. At
the hour mentioned a body of three or
four thousand unemployed met, by pre-
concerted arrangement, in a public
square and passed a series Of inhamma-
tory resolutions denouncing their en-
ployers and the system of government
which enabled the latter to crush the
workingman beneath the iron heel of
capital, and calling upon the govern
ment to take steps to protect the inter.
ests of the working classes. The news
of this bold gathering in defiance of the
recent order of the authorities prohibit
ing such meetings spread with electrical
rapidity throughout the city. The re.
suit was that the socialist agitators de.
termined to take advantage of the OK
cited unemployed men to make q
demonstration
Before the Castle of the Emperor.
The police tried to argue with the
workmen, but without shaking their
determination to carry out the project
outlined. They We're warned that such
a demonstration would probably result
in bloodshed, but, led by the socialist
%agitators, the workmen formed in &
column and marched from the square
mentioned in the direction Of Inter den
Linden, the most celebrated avenue il
Berlin.
The onward sweep of the workme1
was at first irresistabis. The police
were utterly unable 20 cope with that
roaring, swelling enthusiastic crowd
shouting and cheering, encouraged by
thousands of other people who watched
their progress through the streets. Was
it a revolution? vas the question heard
on all sides. On marched the cheering
workmen crying,
ITO tho Castle"
in a manner of recalling the scene
wnlcn occurred in Pare July IA and Is
1889. Arriving OIL the Inter den Lin
den, beneath the statue of Frederick thu
Great, a halt wa made, and a socialist
leader made a passionate address.
to the throng, urging them tx
carry their demonstration up to the
gates of the castle. Loud cheers greeted
the suggestion, and then, at a sigma
from a prominent socialist, who seemed
to be the chosen leader of the mob, tn,
workmen
Began Singing the M arssllaise"
and marched, cheered by the thousand
who had gathered on the broad avenu,
to witness the demonstration, toward.
the castle. The workmen, passing
through a line of police which barred
the passage, rolling several policemen
head over heels in 80 doing, had nearl,
reached the castle gates, where tn,
guards had been ordered under arm
and had loaded their rifles with bal
cartridges, when a strong detachment O
police suddenly threw themselves acros
the short thoroughfare between tn
rioters and the castle, and then, at
sharp word of command, the officers O
the law made a determined charge upol
the head Of the workingmen's column
The latter, for a moment or 80, nerve'
by the roaring cheers of thousands
bravely and stubbornly withstood tn
attack of the police, and, pressed on
ward by those in the rear, actual
managed to gain Roadway and to bea
back the powerful police detachment
The latter, however, rallied, hittin,
f%uriously right, and and left
Wounded Scores Upon Scores
of workmen, who fell bleeding benest
the feet of the officers of the law
Somebody among the workmen Gale
upon them to retreat and come agai
some other day, a hundred thousan
strong and prepared to meet the zen
peror's butchers" A retreat then con
menced and soon developed into a figl
and panic. The police, after takin
eighty OF a hundred prisoners SCENE
content to allow the remainder to oscar
for there was no regular pursuit of til
rioters. though small bands of the,
were chased down the side streets az
dispersed.
The sixty to seventy wounded riote,
who remained upon the field of bait
were taken to q neighboring hospita
and the regular prisoners placed und.
lock and key.
It was noticed throughout the demo,
stration that the sympathy of the in
mense crowd Of people. rich and poo
who witnessed workingmen's demon
stration, was beyond doubt, with Il
rioters. Theyawsre cheeeed rep4etedl