The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-29

SIt dHSlluS CuTO upon the forces or this peoples destiny.
 And while the iron regime holds the people. to the task which has be- come hateful to them, it cleverly spreads it's own reports abroad in the world. Thus it comes that not even the neutral correspondent has been able to make these sufferers arficu- late. I have read wonderful reports to the effect that the same amount of bread and the same amount of butter on the bread" has been secur- ed to rich and poor alike by the mar vellous German organization, the in- ference being that united people were being equally burdened. The in ference is false.
 It is true that the same amount of bread and butter. meat and potatoes are allotted to rich and poor. But it is false, utterly false, that the rich and the poor, the powerful and the humble, are enduring an equal suf- fering on behalf of the Fatherland.
 Prices have place accustomed food and clothes beyond the reach of the wage -earners. Those rations of meat, of butter, of milk, and of eggs that they cannot find the money through twelve hours day of drudgery wherewith to purchase do not still the cravings of their hunger nor build up their waning strength. The well-to-do are not only able to- pur- chase the full amounts of their food. fuel ,and clothing allotments, but they are able to purchase also, in any desired quantities, fruit, conserves, venison, abbits, game birds, sfish, and poultry. There remain to the wage ar as within reach of their scanty earn ings, potatoes. war-bread. turnips. salt, and herring.
 But the inequality of suffering does not end at the table and the ward robe. The incomes of the wealthy, of the official, and of the well-to-do classes have increased during the war, while the incomes of the great mass of the people have shrunk sad- ly. Many of the families of the wage earners have come to be entirely de- pendent upon the pensions, miserable pfttances, paid by the government for the scant margin of existence.
 The women and children of such families undertake any rough work that comes to hand, but are unable, after the most severe endeavor, to sustain themselves upon their earn ings. They have spent their small earnings in staying off the wolf, and now they are forced to work early and late and to stand in line once a week for the government dole in or der to escape starvation.
 The lot of the people hase become A strong leader could sweep them in desperate surge against the conditions of their mis-. e. xI>x have taken place throughout the last year, but they have been promptly and vigorously suppressed. In Plau- en, mobs of hunger driven women have several times wrecked the cfty's market, threatening to get completely out of hand and fill the town with violence.
 Chemnitz. another industrial Saxon city, has experienced a number of riots. Onex particular bitter riot that took place there last autumn was fin ally controlled by the expedient of turning half of dozen fire hose on the rioters.
 In Leipsic, the police. were forced to fire into violent mob, and then to threaten it with a machine gun be- fore order could be. restored. A num- Der of women were killed in this out break.
 Kaiser Denounced in Munich
 There were a number of small out bursts of indignation in Munich last spring and summer, minor disturb ances easily quelled by the police, and then came very serious riot in the early part of last autumn. The newspapers, of course, made hardly any mention of these troubles. The Munich newspapers carried stories of a few lines, telling that a group of unruly boys had caused considerable excitement by throwing missiles through shop windows and at the po- lice, but that they were soon rounded up and placed in goals. I learned de- tails of this riot later from a friend an officer of the German secret po- lice, who had been present at the time. i s5
 The trouble started in one of the city's poorer quarters, when crowd of thoroughly angry men and women dem molished a dairy. They then pro- ceeded up the street screaming for food, for peace, for Bavarian inde- pendence. The mob grew in numbers at every step, and it's emotion grew in intensity with eavn addition to it's numbers Soldiers on the streets hur- Ttc0lyf SOI OuLs Ol LIt0 f10lS4DTOnOoQ. The crowd jeereds at the uniforms, shrilled denunciations against Kaiser and leaders and worked itself up to a raging fury of resentment. For a time it seemed that the mob would reach the better sections of the city and break over them in wave of |pillage and destruction.
 z Police reserves rapidly formed to oppose the uprising. The crowd and the reinforced police met at the en- trance of a square. and there the peo- pie fought one of the most determin- ed battles yet attempted against in ternal law and order. After several hours of embittered conflict the po- lice got the upper hand, the rioters pitfalls, and the crowds were dispersed
 The Munich riot, however, served an earnest notice upon the authorities of that which may well happen if the war should drag on and popular leader should appear. Central Eur ope might again experience the hor- TOTS of a peasants and mechanics war, reminiscent of those days when the too sorely oppressed poor took to the depths of the German forests and sallied forth, whenever occasion of fered, on missions of murder and ra- pine, fighting with scythes and sling shots.
 The food riots are among the most striking signs of the unrest of the <