Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-07-31

London, July 26-The wave of social
istic trouble which swept over Lille in
France, is stirred up by the arrival of
Herren Liebneck, Bebel, Singer and other
foreigners attending the socialistic con-
gress in session there this week. Will
reach London today Though Lille has
q socialistic mayor and deputy, 1t Is evil
dent that the people of the city are not
prepared to swallow such wholesale out
bursts of socialism as were INDUCED in
by the congress, and the result has been
riots of such character as would, II IL
happened in Paris, says the Times, have
sent SILVER throughout Europe. The
trouble started with the posting of
placard by the municipality inviting the
inhabitants to welcome their brothers
from abroad. Counter placards were
posted by the republicans melting the
people to hiss the procession. So, when
the socialistic procession marched
through the city on Friday evening, it
was greeted with cries of viva la
France" and "A bas Prusse." The line
was broken and the mayor became separ-
ated from the procession. The musicians
waved their tri-colored flags, which the
socialists tried to seize.
The International socialistic and trade
union congress begins at st. Martins
town hall on Monday. London will doubt
less receive all the anarchists and So
cialistic demonstrations incident to this
congress during the next week more
calmly than the ebullltions of the con-
gress at Lille were received there, as the
presence of Germans in London furnishes
ill.,
the congress there will be "a mammoth
demonstration in Hyde Park tomorrow
of socialistic workers and trade union
lists, I'm favor of international peace and
amity" There will be IL platforms and
as many different chairmen, all of the
latter well known figures in labor or po-
litical circles There will be two dele
gates from the continent, who will speak
in French and German. The congress
which assemblies on Monday has four
German delegates, 81 French and four
from the United States. The anarchists,
as distinguished from the socialists, will
hold a welcoming meeting of their own
in separate hall on Tuesday evening.
The London newspapers are devoting
much space to American politics. The
Daily News has column. sketches of Gov
ernor Mckinley and William ]. Bryan,
the former by Chauncey NJ. Depew and
the latter by Morton Frewen.
The Saturday Review has an article
by Golden Smith, in which the writer
says that he believes that Bryan will
succeed at the presidential election. Pro-
fessor Smith says: 1T is a social and
industrial insurrection, using free silver
as its watchword, which is the most for
midable feature of the situation. The
east has robbed the west with its tariff
and the west is now going to rob the east
IL 1t can by reputation, under the form
of debasement of the currency"
Great preparations have been made
for the demonstration in favor of inter-
national peace in Hyde park today I'M
der the auspices of the organization COM
mittee of the International socialist and
trade union congress, which begins at
st. Martins hotel tomorrow. Tie demon
stration committee, which has been at
work on the arrangements since March,
and had distributed 10000 hand bills and
10000 posters, had employed band to
head the procession and had made elab-
crate arrangements with the commission
er of works and police, but what they
could not arrange for was the weather,
which proved against them today, and
the downpour of rain practically made
a fiasco of the demonstration.
Professions were formed in all parts
of London, the socialists, members of
trades unions and their sympathizers.
and marched to Hyde park, the peoples
forum of London. When they arrived the
rain was steadily falling and it gradually
Increased to deluge, driving away
nearly all the multitude that it was
ha 30 tSAN - a.
speakers. Twelve platforms had been
erected for all the speakers but the
Carmen's Union. and a chairman for
each had been chosen by the demonstra-
ton committee. 1t was intended to have
addresses from each platform in French
and German, as well as in English by
the continental delegates to the congress.
The speeches that were made in other
languages than English were translated
from the platforms. Very brief speech
es were made from these platforms by
"Tom" Mann, the socialist ex-member
of parliament. Ben Tillett. Bernard
Shaw, the we'll known writer on social
list topics, Edward Aveling of the Gas
Workers and General Laborers' Union,
F. w. Wilson, Herren Bebel and I.ieb-
knecht, socialist members of the Ger
man reichstag, DIR. Victor Adler the
Austrian socialist, NJ. NJ. Milleraud, L.
A. Fargue, Jules Guesde and Jean
jacques, socialist members of the French
chamber of deputies, and others. The
speakers declared that the masses of the
people did not desire war, which they
said was only provoked by rulers ant
capitalists. The names of Emperor viii
liam, DIR. Jameson and Cecil Rhode.
when mentioned by the speakers, wer,
Kissed by the few auditors.
Simultaneous resolutions were declared
carried at the u platforms in favor o.
international arbitration, of the eight
hour law, of universal suffrage ant
of other measures advocated by the so
cialists and denouncing 1.-THE greed of tn
ruling privileged classes, who provok,
wars in order to control the markets o
the world in their own interests