Evening star., 1941-02-02
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Perhaps it was characteristic of the
times half century ago that dramatic
representations were
Trouble taken very seriously
Making PIoy The II Star ,sa, for January
After the performance Of Sardous
'Thermidor' in Paris on Monday night
there was a riot in the streets near the
theater, caused by the disorderly con-
duct of the extreme partisans OF revolu-
ton, who were elected from the theater,
They Missed the audience as they left
and shouted Down with Sardou,
Long live the republic The cause of
their dissatisfaction was Sardou's de-
nunciation of the excesses of the revolu-
ticn. In the Streets free fight followed
between the extremists and the police,
and it was with difficulty that the latter
managed to keep passage through the
enraged crowd for the audience. During
the disturbance Is arrests were made
among the most violent Of the rioters,
but only two extremely wild agitatorS
were held in custody after the crowds
ndO DGtu O1S SJtISEO NJ I 4N4lOIj VII DON
the Chamber of Deputies to suppress
'Thermidor' on the ground that it is
liable to lead to rioting. NJ. Reinach will
oppose the motion on the ground that
the suppression of the play would be an
attack upon the liberty of the drama,
as we'll as an attack upon art. M
Sardou said in regard to the disturbance:
TT was not my intention to produce
a reactionary play. but piece in har-
mony with honest republican principles,
which do not approve of the horrors
of the guillotine.'
Labor troubles, as distinct from those
arising directly from differences in po-
litical PHILOSOPHERS, found
STRIKES frequent and expansive men
c,;r,o ton in The Star during the
final decade of the 10Th CEN
tury. A dispatch from London, pub
,lished on January %, 1891, may be cited
as an example. 1t read as follows:
The Liberals scored another point with
the working men yesterday in the mo-
ton of Mr.. Robertson of Dundee to
amend the law relating to criminal
conspiracy. The government secured
the defeat of the motion by only ma
jority of &c. and the defeat is almost
as good for Liberal purposes as a victory.
The motive for amending the law is
the decision by the recorder of Plym-
outh that a strike for the purpose of
compelling employers not to employ
other persons is Illegal and renders all
persons engaged in it liable to prosecu-
ton as criminal conspirators and sub
ject to fine or imprisonment. The COM
plant was brought by a coal merchant
who employed non-union men and whose
union hands were called out on that
account. The union secretaries were
each 20 pounds. The recorders deci-
sion is ar-reaching and, until the law
is amended, makes all who strike or
who promote a strike on account of
non-union hands being employed guilty
of crime. The working men are de-
terInined that the law shall be amended,
and Mr.. Robertson, who represents a
working mems constituency, has made
the first move in that direction and got
Lord Salisbury's government again COM
mitted as opposed to the working class"
X
Few readers of The Star for January
90, 1891 could guess that within five
decades two wars of universal proper
tions would be added to the tragic
experience of mankind Yet there were
hints of clashes of interest between
neighboring nations. One such shadow
may be found in report to the effect
that: Count Won MISUNDERSTANDING
the German Ambassador, presided Tues
day night at banquet given at the
German Embassy in Paris in honor of
the birthday of Emperor William. The
Figaro, referring to this entertainment,
says that Count Won Munster, in toast
ing the German Emperor, said: We
must face now the present and the fu-
ture. The present is auspicious and the
future appears in a favorable light.
Germany has at her head a young,
valiant monarch, desirous, for his peo-