The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-21

Berlin. Jan. 2O.-[Copyrighted, 1894.
by the Associated Press. 1.-The COM
paratively insignificant riot near Fried
richsrain, on Thursday morning. has
been magniied, owing to the brutality
of the police. into an important affair
which will probably be brought up in
the reichstag and lead to a very Bit
ter debate.
The socialists. even the better class
of workmen, are greatly excited at the
apparently cruel manner in which the
meeting at Lips brewery was dispersed
by the police, who, moreover. are ac-
cused of perfidy in the ruse said to
have been employed in order to convert
what was originally legal into an il
legal meeting.
According to law. people intending
to hold a public meeting must notify
the police twenty-four hours previous
to the time fixed for the assembly,
and a written permit to hold it must
be shown to the policeman in charge
of the meeting In this case, due no
tice was given and the permit issued,
but Rodrian, an anarchist metal worker
to whom it was given, was arrested on
the way to the meeting with the per-
nit in his pocket.
AS no permit could be shown at the
meeting, the unemployed gathered there
were ordered to dispense. The
people began to leave the hall quickly,
but the police pressed on them without
warrant and a stubborn resistance was
soon raised. The police, mounted and
on foot, beat the crowd with the fiat
of their sabres and clubs, and the work.
men finally broke and fled, followed by
the police, clubbing them furiously and
attacking innocent pedestrians and
spectators, continuing the onslaught
lunreasonably long, and actually follow
ing people into their houses and beat
ing them.
The people finally barricaded their
houses, and fed to the cellars to es-
cape the police brutality. Men and
women, old and young, were equally
subject to the fierce onslaughts of the
police. Many were beaten until they
sunk, helpless, to the ground.
The socialist organs are now making
capital out of the affair, and demand
a strict inquiry into police savagery.
it was for the express purpose Of ag-
gravating the workmen. The police
say they had information that dan
gerous anarchistic proceedings were
contemplated at the meeting. The
matter has been laid before the reich
stag for inquiry and five large meet
ings of workmen and others have been
called to discuss the matter, and the
resources to be used in interpellating
the government in a, demand for the
punishment of the police concerned in
the affair.
The anarchists are jubilant over the
situation, declaring it will greatly
swell their ranks.
Count Pasadowsky, secretary Of the
| treasury, committed a clear blunder
/ in the introduction of the wine tax
bill in the reichstag, the provisions be-
ing unacceptable. On account of party
debates upon it, which were quite
long the benches were almost empty,
in view of the certainty Of the ulti-
mate rejection of the bill. Baron Bu-
ZACH, in behalf of the wine growers OF
Reichsland, energetically protested
against the measure, declaring the
regulations would control the growers.
He said vineyards employing 100000
persons would be affected by the new
tax, and a feeling of violent discon-
| tent was already aroused. A senSa-
ton was caused by the fat declara-
ton of Baron Mittracht, premier Of
the Wurtemburg government, that
Wurtemburg could not accept the bill.
The premier added that his govern
ment would not object to a tax on
sparkling and artificial wines, but he
refused to support the measure in it's
Ipresent form. After a further debate.
the bill was referred. in spite Of the
deposition Of the radical parties.
Some stir has been created in Ber-
lin society by the marriage of a. mem
Der of one of the oldest and most arts
tocratic families of Prussia, EIimir Won
tSanchen, and Clothilde Hagen, a riding
mistress and granddaughter of the
Iwell-known circus proprietor, Ernest
REM. Clothilde is one of the foremost
lof her profession, and is a millionaire
having inherited the REM fortune.
The affair is a love match, and as
IClothilde bears a spotless reputation.
lsociety is favorably disposed toward
her