The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-03-07
TURBULENT EUROPE
The Spread ii Public Misery Causes
Serious Alarm.
UPRIslSGs EXPECTED ON MAY /.

Emperor williams Proposal for an
Anti-Anarclist Alliance Not Liable
10 Receive Favorable Action Italy
and spain Cannot Hope TO Escape
serious Disorders.
PANS, March u The European gov
ernments are beginning to be alarmed at
the spread Of public misery. The Berlin
riots and the disturbances which have
followed them in Dantxic and Bruins
wick are proofs Of an abnormal state Of
things. And when we find even the
workingmen Of petty town in the
Duchy Of Anhalt take to pillaging the
bakers and butchers shops we may be
sure that the danger Is real.
In Austria the prevailing distress was
unsuspected even by the government.
Yet III Vienna alone more than thirty
thousand unemployed workingmen are
wandering about the streets and high
ways near the city. Assaults with yio-
lence are becoming common. In the
northern provinces of Hungary the mis-
ery is terrible. More than twenty thou
sand peasants have been forced to sub
sist on roots and on the bark OF trees.
There are villages in which parents have
been driven to kiln the children they
have had no means OF feeding.
In Russia, on the other hand, there Ii
no change for the better. Whole PROV
inces are threatened with starvation.
Emperor williams Proposal.
The German emperor talks Of propos-
ing international measures to prevent
disorders. He proposes that anarchists
who commit crimes should be liable TO
trial In any of the countries leagued to-
gether in which the offender may be
captured. It Is easy to foresee, how.
ever, that this proposal, which would
virtually create kind OF international,
will not be agreed to--at all events by
France and England, who are Jealous OF
their own authority.
But exceptional measures Of some sort
will have to be taken. For Labor Day
1 this year will have D much greater sig
4 nificance than on former occasions. The
LIST of May falls on Sunday, and thus
many workingmen who IN the ordinary
course would not have stopped their
work to Join in q manifestation win b.
free. In France, again, the date viii
coincide with the municipal elections
which will then be held In every cit,
except Paris, aud which may give risl
to disorder. The Paris police, however
think that the day will pass by without
dangerous riots, except IN the outlying
districts of st. Etienne, and maybe n
Fourmies. where the anarchists talk b
renewing the disastrous ARRAYS OF last
year.
4 We may have more disturbances in
Hamburg and Berlin, where, It il
thought. the ultra-socialists may try X
effect the release of their leaders. Bui
even there the authorities expect to b.
able to repress trouble.
1; Anxiety in Vienna.
More anxiety is felt in Vienna, wher,
the anarchists are making rapid pro
gress. Strikes are also expected al
Brunn
Il The course of events in Belgium de
ponds on the chamber. Should the re
form OF the constitution be voted al
will be calm on the 1st OF May. Should
the reform in question not be, voted w,
may see violent outbreaks, amounting
to almost revolution. The Belgian
government is keeping sharp lookout
Two countries can hardly hope to e.
cape disorder namely, Italy and Spain
The trial of the rioters arrested on Ma,
/, last year, in Italy, is not yet ended
and the anarchists do not conceal then
Indignation. Fresh arrests are already
under consideration. In Spain mnci
evaporation has been caused by thespx-
ecution Of the Xeres anarchists. Rel
hot republicanisrn prevails in Barcelona
| which has been excited by the exec i
tions and by the recent dynamite OK
plosion in one of the government offices
The allegiance of the army Is strongl,
suspected, and it is not likely that ths
troops will be called ont to repress pos
sible riots, q fact which win give tht