The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-03-17
TERROR IN AUSTRIA.
Socialism Shaking Its Cory
Locks at the Emperor.
REPRESSION SEEMS ALL N VAIN
WorkinGmsn Sentenced 70 Prison and
Hostile Legislation Proposed,
Yet Discomfort Grows.

Yet Discomfort Grows.
Bssda pessh. March 1.-THE trial has
beer concluded AZ sxegesafn % sfx.w~swo
socialists VINO were charged With brssss,
concerned n the peasant riots at Eol-
xeuszo. yaxarasoI. Hungary. in Aprti
iass. Twenfy-six socialists were SEN
fenced 20 imprisonment for periods rang
f1g from eight days 20 Eve years. There
Is Intense excitement Ia the vicinity OF
Bzegsdin In consequences Of these SEN
tsssees. and the police ard troops are be-
ing held In readiness to prevent additioa,
~ riots
Berlin Letter Ia New York Recorder
A Ia Belgium and France and Norway
and Sweden and Italy. 50 In Austria the
red spectre Of Socialism fs the devil
which viii not down. The Socialist poe.
of ottakTing says that this red devil is
shsking his bloody locks before Franz
Josephs palace at the Hofbnrg. Persons
who are neither Socialists nor poets say
plainly that the devil has got into Aus
frsan politics. and viii not get Out until
appeased With universal suffrage. This
n tho opinion OF the big Socialist party,
which Is TOW arranging series of SUI
frase meetings for the next weeks: OF
Emperor William. who stayed over
the Austrian emperor how TO fight of
the forces of the revolution. and of Pre-
mier Prince WlndIschgrentz himself. who
n preparing 60 unload his Office upon an
other unfortunate.
Outside Russia. Austria Is the most
medieval Of the powers on the Continent
The Parliamentary Suffrage Commission
has proved this with statistics. publish
ed for other purposes. but none the less
conclusive. The country il run for the
benefit OF the land owners and Jew-tait-
ers. while tho majority OF the wording
population must be content with exist
enee on wages OF 80 cents a day, anu il.
4xIe bedrooms. The imperial parliament
has So members. Some $500 big land
owners eject sighty-five OF these members.
while .Ss7 go voters Ia the rural cornYur-
mites return but i5i. and 23S GO voters In
the cities and towns have but III repre-
eentaflyes. Chambers of Commerce send
the remaining twenty-five. -Four million
workfnEmen are left without a voice
vote or representative. The suffrage com
nissinn proposes TO give i.750.ooo of these
men forty-fhree members OF parliament
Ths rest will get nothing. In the United
States one person in every ave Is "A voter.
In Germany and In Great Britain one per-
son In every six. In Austria, according
10 the plan OF Prince Windischgraetzs
commission. the proportion would be but
one In every ten.
The passage Of such q bin will mean
Socialist mass meetings. riots and blood
shed In the streets of Vienna. Its rejec-
ton will mean the same thing. together
with the wreck OF the cabinet and per-
hans an uprising In Prague, where the
Bohemtans demand universal suffrage as
. means or voting themselves out OF the
empire Why. then. has the committee
turned out such rcport7 Because IL
found Itself between the devil of Social
Ism and tho deep sea OF popular ignor-
ance. The Lack OF education In Austria Ia
appalling. While In Germany ninety
eight men In every hundred can read and
write In France eighty -seven and In Eng
land eighty-six. the number IN Austria Is
but sixty-three. To give the ballot to
1,2Doo0 iiliterates Was more than VIM
dischgraetx or his committee could think
OF doing. Yet they know that IL they do
less the Socialist deluge will overwhelm
them. DIR. Victor Adler. the leader of the
Austrian Socialists, has said so, and he
has 5000 Socialist iaborers In Vienna to
make good his word.
Adler IL no fanatic. A Doctor OF mefii-
cine. a deep reader. a careful speaker and
a man Of affairs In every sense OF the
term. he has been gathering the Social
ssts OF the empire under his standard for
years. Never rousing vain hopes. never
promising unattainable things, he has
preached steadily the necessity OF the hall
lot 70 every man In Austria He has
spread Socialism the length and breadth
of the empire. He has called to his aid
the lowest $4,000. has organized them In
societies. has welded these societies In
annual conventions. and has concentrated
the whole power OF this massive organ
ixation In the demand for universal suf-
fraEe. This black-haired. white-facea.
determined Vienna doctor has at his CON-
nand twice as many men as stand In the
ranks or the Austrian army. To the par
Hamentary committee he In the devil who
presses them toward the deep sea. 20 the
emperor he In the red speeter before the
terrace OF the Hofburg His influence In
a lcaden weight on the empire. for IL
reaches into the provincial capitals. In
spires the bohemian and Croafian depu-
ties 70 threaten the Acknowledgement OF
the monarchy. and MOVES the Hungarian
Republicans TO riot In the streets and de-
nounce the king. But word is needed
form the Office Of his worklngfnan's Ca
xatte 10 bring 3 20 iaborers together In
the Soften Saa1 and 1900 more IN the open
spaces OF the city. His power has hecSsae
30 great. In fact. that he fears 10 us IL
all. An English correspondent who re-
turned to Berlin this week from a holiday
In Vienna says of Adler'a last public
speech on universal suffrage:
Il noticed. az others have lately. that
he hcsitated occasionally I'm choosing his
words. He never used to do that IL was
plain that he was anxious and even fear
fai af the effect Of hia words. that he felt
he must not add the final momentum
which would carry the masses beyond his
control and prseipitate them into street
riots"
The series Of mass meetings 20 accom-
pany the opening debates I'm the imperial
parliament will begin az this danger point
Where they vii. end nobody ear foreseii.
The leaders of the societies Freedom.
Equality. Aurora. Progress and Hell tan
anarchists organiEationt are ready to
march into the streets and fight for the
suffrage az the Belgian workingmen did.
They do not contend that they could over
come the garrison and police but they
say the could throw the city into panic
and Bohemia into revolution. and so ter
rlfy the monarchy that IL would grant
the ballot as the less OF two evils.
THE REVENUE MARINE SERVICE.