Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-27
SANE OR INSANE?
The Man Who Would Rule Ger
many with an Iron Hand.
His Subjects are Beginning to Think
He is Demented,
Judging from His Words to the
BrandenbergerS.
AT LEAST HE is MOST UNPOPU-
LAR WITH THE MASSES.
BERLIN's MOST RESTLESS NIGHT
IN A GENERATION.
BERLIN's MOST RESTLESS NIGHT
IN A GENERATION.

The Situation Hard to Describe - No
Doubt but That tho Empire Is in
heaval Has Not Yet Arrived, but the
Mutterings Can he Heard in the Dis
tance The Emperor Said to Have
Watched the Struggle Between the Po-
lice and the Mob Thursday with a
Smile on His Deadly Pale Face-The
Rioters Attempt to Make Second
Linden.
BERLIN, Feb. 27.-Thursday night the
citizens of Berlin passed one of the most
restless nights in the memory OF the
present generation. The echoes OF
Thursdays rioting before the castle OF
the Emperor William of Germany, at
the end of the Unter den Linden, spread
not only far into the night, but the EN-
bers of the affair were still glowing
fercely Friday morning.
From sunset until sunrise encounters
between the police and rioters continued
at intervals in different parts Of the city,
mostly, however, in the eastern districts
Heads were broken right and left and
the police captured many more prison
ers. Throughout the night the entire
police force of the city was kept on duty
and in several quarters detachment Of
troops were kept under arms.
Hard to Describe.
1t is difficult to picture the state OF
wild excitement and amazement which
prevails here and, according to the
newspapers of this city, in all European
capitals. Such an occurrence as that
witnessed on the Unter den Linden
Thursday would not have caused much
comment had it happened in Paris or
even in London, where encounters be-
tween the police and large bodies of the
people are not infrequent. But, here in
Berlin, the capital ground down under
the presence of soldiers and military
police, the rioting attains point OF very
great significance.
A Crowned Maniac.
1t revealed, as if by thunder clap, the
fact that the emperor is most unpopular
with the masses, and that The people are
beginning to feel convinced that the
damaging words recently attributed to
the emperor at Brandenberg must be
the vaporings of crowned mad man,
and that the ruler of the German EN-
pire is suffering from dementia. This
is the conclusion that people here are
gradually coming to, and there is no
doubt that the empire is in danger.
1t is not intended by this to intimate
that it is probable that the empire will
soon be swept away by the waves OF a
revolutionary movement; the time for
that upheaval has not arrived. But the
mutterings of threatening storm are
heard in the distance, and the first flashes
of lightning were seen on the Unter den
Linden, and the rumbling of the thun-
der was heard from night until morning
Ine SIknal LOT
1t is felt on all sides, that the emperor
by announcing practically to the Bran
denbergers that he had flung down the
gauntlet to the people, and that he
would drive from their bones and into
the exile of emigration all those who
opposed his will, gave the signal for the
struggle between himself, as 81 am the
state" and the people of the empire
who are asserting their right to have
their wrongs redressed by their sover-
eign.
The emperor, it is recalled, at a previ-
Gus Brandenberg banquet, exclaimed;
There is only one ruler in the country;
| am that ruler, and | will endure no
other"
These and other such sayings credited
to the emperor have not passed unheed-
ed in Germany, and have left ranking
sores in the hearts of the people.
lie Looked on and Smiled.
The emperor watched the rioting from
the windows of an apartment in the
first story of the castle. 1t is now added
that he smiled, though his face was
deadly pale, when he saw the people
beaten down beneath the swords of the
military police. Everything that it is
possible to bring up against the en-
peror is consequently now being recited
and revamped, FURNISHED up and re-
painted in more glowing colors by the
socialistists, who are most bitter against
the emperor, and people say that if he
imagines himself equal to the Deity
time will show that he has made very
great mistake in so imagining.
Few. If Amy. Would Remain.
The Vossiche Zeitung observes that if
all the discontented left the country, as
advised to do by the emperor, the adher-
ents of Prince Bismarck would be in
cluded among those departing. The
Vossische article adds: The great EN-.
ployers of labor. who are dissatisfied
with the labor laws, and the agricultu'
ralists, ignored by the new commercial
treaties, would also go. Nobody would
be left but Catholics"
The Tageblatt reminds Germans that
the constitution comedies to every one
liberty to express his opinion" 3"
The socialist journal, The Vorwarts