The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-03-01
RIOTS IN BERLIN.
Hundreds of the Participants
Taken Into Custody
After Hand-to-Hand Struggles
With the Police.

Tho General Opinion Among the Germans
Seems to 30 That the Emperor is De-
mented, Jadging from His Words to
the Drandenburgers-No Doubt but
That the Empire is in Danger-The
Time for the General Upheaval Has Not
Yet Arrived, but the sIutterings Can
BE Heard in the Distance-The EN-
peror said to Have Watched the strus-
gle Between the Police and the Mob
with Smile on His Deadly Pale Pace.
BERLIN, Feb. Wednesday, in
speech to the Brandenburg diet, the
emperor made big sensation by re-
marking that ..the people need not
care for party squabbling and chatter
ing. / go my way and that is the right
way. We are in a state of transition
and destined for great things. I'll con-
duct you into splendid times, and those
who win not help me may as well shake
the German dust from their feet. ask
you to confide in and help me-"
A Riotous Demonstration
But this was as nothing to the sensa-
tion which the unemployed laborers of
this city created Thursday. That the
spirit of discomfort is spreading with
alarming force throughout the German
empire is a fact nobody will deny. In
deed few people really imagine the ex-
tent of the bitter feeling growing
against the emperor and those who
would drive out of Germany, or grind
TO powder, all those who oppose him.
Thursday afternoon between 3, 600 and
1000 unemployed workmen metin pub
lie square by preconcerted arrangement
and passed series of infiammatory res
olutions, denouncing their employers
and the system of government which
enabled the latter to crush the working
men beneath the iron heel of capital,
and calling upon the government to
take steps to protect the interests of the
working classes.
Local labor and socialist agitators took
advantage of the opportunity and made
incendiary speeches to the excited men
asking that they make demonstration
before the castle of the emperor. They
were warned by the police that such &C
ton would result in bloodshed, but to
no avail. Led by the agitators and
cheered by the multitudes along the
streets they marched toward the UDfer
den Linden, sweeping aside the police
who attempted to bar their progress.
At the statue of Frederick the Great
halt was made, and the throng adj
dressed by socialist who urged them to
carry their demonstration up to the gates
of the castle. Loud cheers greeted the
1.-THE Marseillaise." Again sweeping
aside the police, and had nearly reached
the castle gates where the castle guards
had been ordered with loaded rifles,
when they were charged by strong de-
tachment of police who succeeded in re-
pulsing them after fierce struggle in
which scores of workmen were more or
less wounded and about a hundred ar
rested.
During the passage of the workingmen
through the streets, dodgers outlining
the platform of the German socialist
party were freely distributed among the
people.
sympathy With the Rioters
1t was noticed throughout the demon
stration that the sympathy of the i'm
mense crowd of people, rich and poor,
onstration, was, beyond a doubt, with
the rioters. They we're cheered repeat
eddy by groups of well dressed people
belonging to the upper and middle
classes, and were frowned upon only by
those moving in government or military
circles.
He 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 pol ce. Everything that it is
possible to bring up against the emf
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.
A Restless Night.
BERLIN, Feb. 27.-Thursday night the
citizens of Berlin passed one of the most
restless nights in the memory of the
present generation.
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 We're broken right and left and
the police captured many more prison
ers.
A Crowned Maniac.
1t revealed, as if by thunder clap, the
fact that the emperor is most unpopular
with the masses, and that The psople are
beginning to feel convinced that the
damaging words recently attributed to
the emperor at Brandenburg must be
the yaporings of a crowned mad man,
There is no doubt bit that the empire
is in danger, not at present as the time
for the upheaval has not yet arrived.
The general opinion is that the demon
stration ON the Inter den Linden is but
the muImurfngs of the threatening
storm which will ultimately shake the
German empire from center to circum-
ference.
The Signal for the Struggle.
1t is felt on all sides, that the emperor
by announcing practically to the Bran
denburgers that he had flung down the
gauntlet to the people, and that he
would drive from their homes and into
the exile of emigration all those who
opposed his will, gave the signal for the
struggle between himself, as II am the
state" and the people of the. empire
who are asserting their right to have
their wrongs redressed by their sover-
eign.
Another Demonstration.
Friday afternoon mob of about 900
men attempted another demonstration at
the castle gates but We're repulsed by