The Irish standard., 1892-02-27
RIOT IN BERLIN.
Several Thousand Unemployed Men Make
the Emperor Feel Small.
neapolis.

Several Thousand Unemployed Men Make
the Emperor Feel Small.
/ BERLIN, Feb, 25.--The emperor's speech
yesterday to the members of the Bran
denburg diet, who banqueted him, has
caused sensation. An instance OF the
heated passions OF the masses were eX-
emplifed at 10 o'clock this afternoon.
At the hour mentioned a body of 5000
! or 1000 unem ployed men met by pre-ar-
ranged plan in a public square and
passed series of inaamatory resolutions,
denouncing their employers and the sys'
TEN Of government which enabled the
latter to sscrush the workingmen beneath
the iron heel of capital and calling
upon the government to take steps to
protect the interests of the working
| classes The news of this bold gathering
! in defiance of the recent order prohibit
| ing such meetings spread with rapidity
throughout the city. The result was
that the socialist agitators determined to
take advantage of the excited unemploy-
cd men to make demonstration before
the castle of the emperor; led by the So
cialist agitators, the mon formed IN COL
umns and marched from the public
square in the direction of Under den
Linden. the most celebrated avenue IN
Berlin The workmen, passing through
line of police which barred their pas
L.
sage, had nearly reached the castle gates
when strong detachment OF police
threw themselves across the short por-
ton of the thoroughfare intervening
between the rioters and the castle and
made determined charge upon the head
Of the workingmen's column. The lat
ter. for moment or so, nerved by the
roaring cheers of thousands, bravely and
stubbornlv withstood the attack of the
police, and pressed onward by those in
the rear, actually managed to gain head
way and to beat back the powerful po-
lice detachment 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. Somebody
among the workmen called upon them to
retreat and come some other day, lOo,-
600 strong and prepared to meet the
emperor's butchers, as they called them.
A retreat then commenced and soon
developed into fight and panic. The
police, after taking from 80 to 100 pris-
oners, seemed content to allow the re-
mainder to escape.
sTo the castle!' was the cry. "Let's
tear down the gates if necessary, and see
the emperor"
| In the meanwhile the police had not
been idle. Before the rioters started for
the castle the police had been at work
among them and almost unknown to the
rioters three of the most pronounced
speakers were quietly arrested on the
charge of lese majestic.
During the melee the police made
about 100 arrests, but each arrest seemed
to be the signal for g 4 attempt at rescue
upon the part Of the mob, and IN some
cases they tore their comrades from the
grasp Of the police and carried them
away in triumph.
i During the passage of the working
Imen through the streets, dodgers outln-
i inq the platform Of the German socialist
party were freely distributed among the
! people. This platform is as follows:
i i. Universal suffrage without distlnc-
1 lion Of sex for all subjects Of the empire
4 over twenty years Of age; direct elections