The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-12-28
REIcNs OF TERROR
Tines During Which Law and Or
der Are Dethroned.
WHEN CITIES GO STARK MAD.

Example Being Frenxisd Paris In the |
Revolution and In the Commune.
During the Instruction In ireland,
which had its center In the historic old
capital Of that long troubled isle and
which resulted in the execution Of sew
eral Of its leaders, including Sir Roger
Easement, Dublin went mad-stark,
sometimes. Then, just as single indi-
diduals do when smitten with insanity,
they perpetrate all sorts of horrible
deeds that In their saner moments they
would be the first to repudiate and con-
denim.
Paris was attacked by just such a
violent at of mental alteration during
the stormy and blood soaked days of
the revolution and again Immediately
after the last Franco German war;
Her revolutionists I'm the latter event
called themselves Communists, and
these frenzied people did pretty much
as did the Dublin insurrectionists-t
is to say, they seized public buildings,
threw up street barbados and In
trenched themselves In open strategic
spaces. The result In the end, too.
was the same They were overpowered
by the regular troops, and the bulk OF
but not until fourth part of Paris
had been laid In ruins, property worth
f32, 100000 being destroyed
To find anything in London approx
mating to the Dublin madness we
must go back to the year 1880, when
Lord George Gordon's armed rioters
held Englands capital at their mercy
for several days. On this occasion
Newgate jail was stormed and set on
fire, after the prisoners had been re-
leased, the Bank Of England was be-
sieged and hundreds of houses,
churches, shops and other buildings
were set on fire and destroyed.
Bristols turn came fifty years later,
during the reform agitation of 1881.
The city, long seething with political
excitement, suddenly exploded like
powder magazine to which a lighted
match is applied, and in the course of
a day and night 500 of her citizens
were killed by the military or burnt
to death In the fires they themselves
had kindled, and most of her princi-
pal buildings, including the mansion
house. the bishops palace and above
100 shops and private dwellings, were
heaps of blackened ruins.
In 1889, Newport, Monmouthshire,
underwent a similar experience, but
the mayor called out the troops with
commendable promptitude, and after
brief but bloody conflict in the mar
ket square the maddened rioters fed,
leaving the place a shambles. OF
what n fiery Welsh mob is capable,
however. when it is allowed to get out
of hand, was shown in 1882 at Trede-
gar, In the same county, when the
miners there, Infatuated by an attack
made ON a Protestant religious meet
ing by some Irish Roman Catholics,
stormed the quarter of the town In
which the latter lived and literally
wiped it off the face of the earth.
In 1913 five white mechanics work
ing underground at the New Kleinfon-
tein mine, near johannesburg, were
asked to assent to an alteration of
hours that would involve their work
ing for the future on Saturday after
moons. They refused and were dis
missed, whereupon practically all the
white miners on the Rand came out on
strike.
That week saw johannesburg given
up to scenes similar to those enacted
In Dublin. Bands of armed madmen
volvers. with dynamite bombs. The
railway station was set on fire and de
stroyed. The offices of the Star news
paper were blown to pieces with giant
powder. To venture into the streets
was to gamble with death. In the end
of course, the military got the upper
hand-they always debut not unit
some 200 of the strikers and their sym
pathizers had been killed and wounded
Hunger sometimes drives cities crazy
The people suffer until they feel the,
can suffer no longer Then the mad
ness mounts into their brains, an,
things-terrible things-happen. Milan
for instance, went mad from this caus
In 1898 owing to the long continue,
scarcity and dearness of bread. Gaunt
skeleton like women. stripped to TIL
waist, led the rioters and urged then
by fanatic cries and gestures to tr.
conclusions with the soldiers.
Milan ran red with blood. In on
short afternoon eighty-two of the hun
ger maddened people were shot dead
Many hundreds were wounded. Not
bakers shop in the city escaped bein
looted. and most of them were utterl
destroyed into the bargain. But In th
end the people got their way. TIL
price of bread was reduced.
Belfast has periodical crazy fits. On
of the worst occurred In 1886, whe
eleven people were killed outright an
more than 200 were wounded.
New York city. too, had a fash {
this kind during the draft riots of Jul
13 to 10. 1S63.-London Tit Bits.