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Show many monarcbs Stoned by Itlobs In Almost Every European Country Royalty Has Been Insulted By Crowds. King Leopold's experience at the bands of the socialist mob on Wednesday Wednes-day last at Brussels is neither surprising sur-prising nor unprecedented. Other mon-archs mon-archs have been subjected to similar experiences. The widowed empress of Russia still bears today on her forehead the scar of a cut inflkted by a sharp s,oe ,seH -at the ''n which she was dr.ving through the streets of aftern hfen'Wilh hGr P-"ent8. shortlv arter the accession to the throne. It as only with difficulty that the troops were able to preserve the roval equipage from being overturned bv the mob which gave vent to its feelings by throwing stones and mud at the carriage and by shouting the most Insulting In-sulting words at its occupants. Subsequently Subse-quently one mob smashed all the windows win-dows of the royal palace by means of stone throwing. Todav there is no I sovereign more beloved bv his people than the venerable King Christian, who has just celebrated his 84th birth-' birth-' fu y; .n0r 18 there anv rsming house t that is more completely in touch with I the people of the land. I WILLIAM I FLIES FOR HIS LIFE kJ,-the same wav the Iate Emperor illiam, although he was almost i.-i. ized by his lieges at the time .of his death, and even during the last eighteen eigh-teen years of his life, had. nevertheless, neverthe-less, been driven out of Berlin by the mob in 1848, which not only forced him to fly for his life, but also compelled his elder brother. King' Frederick William Wil-liam IV, to order, him to "travel abroad," that being a euphonious term for banishment. . His grandson, the' present emperor, was mobbed in . the streets of Berlin within a couple of years afti his accession ac-cession to the throne. He was riding through the streets at the time, and became so angry at the remarks addressed ad-dressed to him by the populace, and by the manner in which they pressed around him, that he, perhaps involuntarily, involun-tarily, placed his hand on his sword hilt, as if about -to draw his sword. But his aide-de-eftmp bent forward and -whispered something that . was manifestly mani-festly an entreaty in to hin'ear, whereupon where-upon he desisted, and rode, on frowning frown-ing through the nalace sates, i-ansintr the populace, which had followed him, to be driven off by the police with blows, sword thrusts and pistol shots, a scene which he witnessed from a window on the first floor of the palace. The mob. on being thus driven away, looted the baker and butcher shops of the metropolis, but made no attack on the. great banks, the palaces of the rich, the great, jewelers', gunmakets' and silverware shops, thus furnishing evidence that the rioters were what they proclaimed themselves to be that is to say, unemployed rendered desperate desper-ate by want and starvation, and bent on having relief. j ALFONSO XII IN PARIS. The late King Alfonso of Spain was mobbed in the most disgraceful manner man-ner in the street" of Paris on the occasion oc-casion of his stare visit to the French capital during the presidency of Jules Grevy. True, he had been attending the maneuvers of the German army in Alsace and Lorraine, that is to say, in the provinces which had been wrested from France by Germany in the war of 1870. and to make matters worse in French eyes he had accepted at Stras-burg Stras-burg from old Emperor AVilliam. the colonelcy of a Uhlan (Lancer) regiment. regi-ment. The Lancers w ere of all the German Ger-man soldier? the most execrated bv the I French people in the war of 1S70. and that the Spanish king should have accepted ac-cepted a colonelcy of German Uhlans after attending the maneuvers of the German army in the conquered provinces prov-inces was looked upon at Paris as having hav-ing added insult to injury. Consequently Consequent-ly when he drove through the streets of Paris he wa-s greeted with hooting; howling, and even mud-slinging, the words, "Down with the German Uhlan." Uh-lan." rising superior to all other din. The French government offered the most complete apologies for the insults in-sults to which its royal guest had been subjected. But the king was angry, cut short his stay in the French capital, cap-ital, and returned quickly to his dominions, do-minions, his experiences at the hands of the Parisian mob serving to keep away from the French metropolis- all foreign sovereigns that is to say, as' far as state visits were concerned until the great exhibition of 1900. POPE PIUS IX IN DISGUISE. The present pontiff has never known what it is to be mobbed. But his predecessor on the papal throne was less fortunate in this respect. For in 1848 he was forced by the populace to flee for his life from Rome, disguised in the livery of a footman, while even after his death, when his body was being be-ing conveyed to its last resting place, it was subjected to gross indignities by the mob and narrowly escaped being hurled in the Tiber. v.mnrpse Vtncenie was soiis-hf in vain I by the Parisian mob that invaded the Tuileries on the day of the overthrow of the empire on Sept. 4. 1870. "What would have happened to her had she been caught it is difficult to say, and theie are many who still believe that she would have shared the frightful fat? of the Trincess de Lamballe in the days of the Terror, eighty years previously. previ-ously. For she was regarded at the time as responsible for all of France's disasters, and the mob was unreasoning unreason-ing in its ferocious anger against her. She narrowly escaped, thanks to the presence of mind, the courage, and the chivalry of the Italian ambassador, Count Nigra, and the Austrian ambassador, ambas-sador, the late Prince Metternich, who managed to convey her and her lady in waiting to the house of Dr. Evans, the American dentist, who a couple of days later helped them to reach the coast and to embark on board the yacht of Sir John Burgoyne, which carried them to England and to safety. Queen Natalie of Servia has repeatedly repeat-edly been mobbed ,ln the streets of Bel, grade, and her carriage pelted with stones, while the last occasion of a royal personage being mobbed in Eng-lang Eng-lang was v.hen the sedan chair of old Queen Caroline, the homely consort of King George III, was pelted while she was on her way from Buckinmham palace pal-ace to St. James'. KHEDIVE MOBBED MOKE THAN ONCE. The late Khedive Tewfik of Egypt was on several occasions mobbed prior to the Arabi rebellion of 1SS2. He had not his father's grit, for on the solitary occasion when an attempt was made to mob old Khedive Ismail the latter, a fat. little red-haired, red-whiskered j man, hopped out of his carriage, which the populace had surrounded, and com nieneed laying about him with his list and with his walking stick in such ; way that th? mob literally bolted, leav ing him monarch of all he surveyed The only thing to compare with It wa: when Nicholas I suddenly appeared quite alone. In the midst of the mob o December. 1835. that was besieging his palace at St. Petersburg, calling for hi.' blood, and quite alone ordered them al on their knees, every one obeying, thif ending the so-called December insurrection. insur-rection. MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. (; ' .. V iv. , . v V o Ml ; ;' - : $ I? l , c y K .7 K JOHN REDMOND, IRISH PARLIAMENTARY LEADER. Justice McCarthy, former, parliamentary parliamen-tary leader of the Irish party in parliament, par-liament, writes an interesting article for the Independent of New .York, reviewing re-viewing the conditions in Ireland .and the efforts of the United Irish Land League. We clip so much of the article referring to his successor. John Redmond, Red-mond, M. P.: "Redmond has proved thus far a brilliant and capable leader, and he has received the most loyal and indefatigable inde-fatigable support from men like John Dillon" whom a short time before he might have regarded as personal opponents. op-ponents. Since the general election the Irish party have become with every succeeding day a more and more powerful influence in the house of commons. Owing to the late differences and disputes in the English . Liberal party, the Irish national cause has lost some of the support on which it might once have counted. Lord Rosebery has declared against home rule, and Fome few of the English liberals have obeyed his whistle and followed in his foot- steps. This fact, however deplorable it may seem to all true-hearted English Eng-lish liberals, has only tended to strengthen the position of the Irish party, for it helps still further to teach Irishmen that they must depend upon j themselves alone. The grotesque mis-government mis-government of Ireland lately by the officials of Dublin castle has been of 'incalculable advantage to John Redmond Red-mond and his followers. Ireland has been put absolutely under the control of policemen, so far as the right of public meeting and public speech is concerned, and this at a time when the island is free from crime of any-kind any-kind to a degree absolutely unknown in England. The manner in which public pub-lic meetings are now suppressed and dispersed in Ireland at the mere com mand of a police official who undertakes under-takes to say before a meeting has begun be-gun that the speakers are certain to utter unlawful sentiments, and must, therefore, not be allowed to speak, is something only worthy of a place in one of W. S. Gilbert's delightful comic fantasies. One is inclined to wonder whether in the Irish department of the j present administration there is no man j with brains enough or with enough sense of humor to recognize the hopeless hope-less absurdity of such attempts to deal with the Irish national movement. ' "In the meantime all this tells immensely im-mensely for the advantage of the Irish Parliamentary party, united, disciplined discip-lined and nationally supported as it now is. The Itsh party makes, itself! conspicuous in every great debate. It always stands by the cause of the working classes, the poor and the oppressed op-pressed whenever such a cause is brought by any member of any party under the consideration of the house of commons. Only the other day the Irian vote enabled the labor parry in the house to obtain a victory over the government on an important question concerning the hours of work imposed on one class of operatives in England. It is now beginning to be thoroughly understood among the working population popula-tion of Great Britain that the Irish national na-tional party may always be counted upon to help in every parliamentary effort ef-fort made for the lightening of their labor la-bor and the improvement of the conditions condi-tions under which they have to toil. There is always 'a large body if Irish national members in attendance during dur-ing the sittings of the house ready to take ad'antage of any opportunity that may ' arise for the support of their friends and the confusion of their enemies. ene-mies. The representatives of other political po-litical sections may often fall away "from their attention to parliamentary duties, may be drawn oft by affairs of business or the temptations of 'social enjoyment: but there is never an hour' of parliamentary sitting . without the presence of a large number of the Irish national members ready to take part in any debate that may arise. John Redmond is splendidly supported in debate de-bate by many of his followers. There are no nobler, more ready and more impressive speakers in the house than such men as John Dillon, T. P. O'Connor, O'Con-nor, Edward Blake and others whom I could name, men who could not but be recognized as a power and an influence in any parliamentary assembly. The late general election has brought into the Irish party several younger men, who, although new to parliamentary life, have already won for themselves honorable distinction in the debates of the house of commons. "I must not omit to add that the utter ut-ter failure of the government's recent endeavors to deal with the land question ques-tion in Ireland has converted the Ulster Ul-ster constituencies into sincere and active ac-tive opponents of that system of administration ad-ministration which until thus lateiy they alone had been willing to support. The peaceful revolution which is accomplishing ac-complishing itself among the Ulster constituencies under the leadership of that remarkable man, Mr. T. W. Russell, Rus-sell, is one of the most instructive political po-litical events of the time. Mr. Russell is or was a conservative and a strong opponent of home rule. He was a member of the present tory administration, adminis-tration, his place in which he resigned only a short time ago because Lord Salisbury and his colleagues could not be prevailed upon to deal boldly and justly with the Irish land question. Mi. Russell is one of the readiest and most effective debaters in the house of commons,-and it may he taken for granted that' the moment he sees, as he snon must see. that a full settlement of the j land question is not to be obtained Without home rule, he will heenmo n-nn of the most earnest and resolute of home rulers. Even the intense hostility hostil-ity which has been aroused against the Irish national members because of their open and avowed sympathy with the Boers in the South African war has a wholesome influence on the minds of some calm and reasonable Englishmen. Such men are beginning to ask themselves, as that eminent lib-I lib-I eral. Lord Aberdeen, put it the other day. whether there must not have been deep injustice done toward Ireland In order to make representative Irishmen thus sympathize with the enemies of England. I venture to predict that before long there will be a healthful reaction of public opinion in Great Britain, and that statesmen will come to tha front cnttnu-oH -iti hurt u n 1 intellect enough to see that there is but one way of making Ireland loyal to the British crown, and that is the way which has already wrought such a change in the Canadian populations the concession of the Tight to national self-government. "I need hardly, perhaps, tell my American readers that I am but an observer of all that has been recently going on in our political life here, and that I no longer take part in the active movement. I think, however, that I am in a position to observe with accuracy ac-curacy and to make myself acquainted with the conditions and the prospects of the struggle. I indulge in the hope that the American public may feel ; some interest in the expression of my views on the subject at the present hour." |