Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-05
BREAD OR WORK
The Cry of the Starving Masses
at Dantzic, Prussia.
A Great Mob of Unemployed Work
men Capture the City
RansaCking the Bakeries and
Butcher Shops.
THE SPOlLS DISTRIBUTED AMONG
THE SUFFERING,
EACH MAN RECEIVING ACCORDING
TO HIS NEEDS.

Germany by the Prosecutions of Paper
for Criticising the Emperor's Acts-Th'
Kaiser Likened to Nero, the Tyrannica
Roman Emperor-The General Opinion
Prevails That the Struggle Between tn,
People and the Emperor Has Com
menced in Real Earnest.
BERLIN, March ga dispatch from
Dantzic says that serious rioting, similar
to that which took place recently in this
city, occurred there Friday. AS in Ber
lin, the trouble was caused by the large
number of people out of work and
doubtless, the flames of discord were
famed by the emperor's recent utter.
ances about crushing and driving out OF
Germany all those who oppose him.
A Modern Nero.
The spirit of restlessness, it may also
be said, is kept alive by the prosecu-
tions of the Cologne Gazette and the
Frankfurter Zeitung for criticising the
emperor's acts and the general opinion
prevailing that the struggle between the
people and the emperor, who has been
likened to Nero, by the Frankfurter
Zeitung, has commenced in real earn
est.
Out of Work.
The troubles at Dantzic, like the
troubles at Leipsic and many other
places, began by mass-meeting of the
unemployed, by fiery addresses made by
agitators, and by heated suggestions up
ON the part of socialistic orators.
A delegation was then appointed to
call upon the chief local magistrate,
who had been warned that the trouble
was brewing. The magistrate preferred
to receive the delegation in the kindest
manner possible, listened to all they had
to say about their grievances, and gave
them some good advice as to observing
a peaceful attitude in spite Of their de-
plorable situation.
To this one of the delegates angrily
replied: "Would you feel peaceful or
behave peacefully if your wife and chill
dren were crying at home for the bread
you are not allowed to earn?"
The magistrate lodged the pointed
question very cleverly, then gave the
delegation some more good advice, show
ing them, to his own satisfaction, at
least, that it would certainly not further
their interests and might injure them
if they came into collision with the
police.
Finally the magistrate informed the
delegation that the local authorities,
anticipating some such visit, had
taken steps to provide relief works up
on which the most needy of the unem-
ployed could find work. When asked
how many men he could find work for,
the magistrate said that he feared the
authorities could only employ 150 or 200
men. AS there are, according to the
estimate, some 1900 or 5000 persons
at Dantzic in need of employment, this
reply caused further grumbling among
the delegates, asking: "And while $50
or 200 are earning bread, who is to feed
the thousands who are hungry
To this question the magistrate could
not find any reply; but he again advised
the delegates to recommend to their
comrades that law and order must be
observed in spite of their sufferings.
The delegation then withdrew and,
later in the day, some 200 men from the
unemployed masses OF Dantzic were EN-
barked on board a steamer, chartered
by the local authorities, and were taken
up the river to the spot where the relief
works were situated
The departure of this happy 200 was
witnessed by about 1000 other work
men, who gave them hearty cheer as
they steamed away and who would have
been most glad of the opportunity of ac-
companying them.
Agitators Get In Their Work.
No sooner was the steamboat out of
sight, than the angry feeling which ami
mated the hungry army of unemployed
ldDOItlS DtSdll W ODIttlu lllt upper Hdllu
of them. There was much shouting
and swearing, many bitter things
said about the emperor and then
the socialist and anarchist orators,
seeing that the temper of the men
was such that they might be excited to
do almost anything, began to harangue
the crowds, tell them of their wrongs, Of
oppression of the government and of the
cruel bearing of the emperor, the Nero
of Germany, they said, instead of being
in sympathy with the masses of poverty
stricken people throughout the country,
who were unable TO obtain work enough
to keep their families in bread and
cheese, threatened those who were OPP
posed to this order of things and an
nounced his intention of driving from
Germany the people who used their
voices in protest against this treatment.
Shops sacked.
OF course this is only an idea of the
wild sayings which were poured into
the ears of excited workmen, with the
result that no sooner was the now famil-
lar cry in Germany of Bread bread
bread! Give us bread, or give us
work p" raised by the agitators than
mob Of about 1900 men spread them