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Show RIOTS nj LfjfNDOH, Teh Thousand T?orkinH.rtn: Raise the Devil in' glahw.Cap!tal:t.;,-: To-Day. ' v Australian Catholic Send Greeting to Their Anierleau'Bretliren. : - . ; - A Proposed Bill to Put; Congressmen and the Cabinet on a Prohibi- " Hon Ticket. lSt. "-. j' . "': " : Riots In f'Ondoh Jbb-Say. London February 8.The. starving mechanics me-chanics of London to-day held a mass meeting meet-ing in Trafalgar square, ground tfie Nelson monument, and it resulted in' a riot. The proceedings were opened with" , .' t AN ASSEMBLAGE DIP 10,000 HEN. The police wero present in large numbers. 33lBxain!a. ele-' ment of- London,; greatly pre"ff(5tafante8Ii, the crowd, which was also managed by well-" known Socialists, and took!. extraordinary vigilance " to -preserve the peace . at all hazards. Conspicuous among the leaders of the multitude was Burns, who rah as a Socialist candidate in Nottingham in the recent election..' He sneered at the police; and aoted generally as if he wished to bring about a conflict between the police and the people. Finally he ascended the pedestal of the Nelson column for the purpose of delivering deliv-ering his harangue. He was well aware that this act Would not be tolerated, and. the police politely . - . OBDEBED HEM TO GET, DOWN. This Be refused to do,' appealing to the crowd to resist interference with the exercise exer-cise of popular rights. The officers, however, how-ever, were . determined, and pushed their way through the excited and resisting mass, and by force removed Burns from the pedestal. pedes-tal. By this time the crowd had vastly augmented, aug-mented, and the streets adjacent were packed with surging mobs. The stir in the elevated spot where the Burns incident took place was easily perceptible over almost the entire area covered by the concourse, and the sight of helmets and uniforms in a struggle was accepted as visible proof of the commencement commence-ment of the fight against the law. The intelligence in-telligence was responded to with. A GENEBAL AND FEABFUL HOWL, And an attempted rush from all directions to the point of interest, Burns had now been removed some distance dis-tance from the position he had attempted to occupy. He became emboldened by the cries of the throng and made a desperate effort to reoover his lost ground. He was so effectually helped by the mob that the officers offi-cers on the spot were brushed out of the way and the orator was soon pressed up against the monument. He quietly reas-cended reas-cended the pedestal, accompanied by a number num-ber of other Socialist leaders. BTJENS BOBE A BED FLAG, And he waved it to the assemblage as a signal sig-nal of his triumph over the authorities. He was greeted with deafening shouts, raised again and again. . Burns now leisurely finished fin-ished his address. He then read a fiercely-worded fiercely-worded resolution. This denounced the authors of the present distress in England, demanded that Parliament start public works to give employment and bread to tens of thousands of deserving men who were out of work through no fault of their own, but ' . "" BECAUSE OF BAD GOVEBNMENT, And declared itHvas the duty. of. the government govern-ment to afford every f acility for the employment em-ployment of British capital at home for the benefit of the British people, and to give British enterprises advantage ad-vantage over foreign, .and asserted that the time had arrived for Parliament to earnestly legistate for the relief of depression depres-sion in the English agricultural industry. The resolutions also demanded the immediate imme-diate appointment of a Minister of Commerce Com-merce and a Minister of Agriculture, and concluded with the resolve that copies should be forwarded to Gladstone, Salisbury, Parnell and the Board of Publio Works. The reading of the resolutions was accompanied accom-panied by fierce comment - and short ex planatory speeches by various orators who stood with Burns. Some of these orators went so far as to ; WABN THE GOVERNMENT That, although the starving meohanics of London were now attempting to draw attention atten-tion to their needs by quiet and peaceful agitation, they were bound to get it by attacking at-tacking bakers' shops next, if the government govern-ment did not come to their relief. Burns himself, in one of these side speeches, denounced de-nounced the present House of Commons as a body of landlords and capitalists, for whom hanging was too good. He also declared that the people had assembled to summon Parliament Par-liament to immediately relieve the distress of British workingmen; that people wanted the question settled at once, and peacefully if possible, otherwise ' A BEVOLTJTION WAS INEVITABLE. All this aggravated the excitement of the huge mass, so that the police re-formed with increased f oroe and made another assault. They suoceeded in forcing their way up to the pedestal. They reached this point just as the resolutions, which had already been offered and seconded, were about to be submitted sub-mitted to the mob for approval. The officers at once ordered 'the proceedings to be discontinued dis-continued on the pedestal, and commanded Burns and his colleaguesr to come down. This they refused to do, ' and the offioers thereupon dragged them down force, and drove them from the pedestal. It was evident thaf Burns expeoted that the application of violence to him would precipitate pre-cipitate a riot, and it was also apparent that the offioers immediately engaged in removing remov-ing the orators feared an attack, but the men comprising the mob were not in a fightinghumor, and the mob oontented itself it-self for a time by " HOOTING THE POLICE and smothering, them with flour, dirt and garbage. The officers .'behaved admirably under this abuse and showed no resistment. After their ejeotion : neither Burns nor any of his colleagues made any further attempts to get back. They at once left the street and proceeded to the Reform club building. They mounted the steps, pointed to the doors and windows and bitterly denounced the inmates.' This looked like an attempt to set the mob on the building. The mob was exoited, but not up to the point of violence vio-lence yet. Burns and nis colleagues, seeing this, vacated the Reform club steps and proceeded pro-ceeded to the Carleton club, where they re-nnated re-nnated their tactics. By this time THE MOBjAS TBEMENDOUS In numbers, and rverging to desperation. Stories of what the police had said and done at the Nelson column had been circulated from mouth to mouth, exaggerated with every repetition. - The mob was split up into parties on its way to Hyde Park to hold a meeting. The mob is cursing the authon-ties,attacMng authon-ties,attacMng shops,sacking saloons, getting drunk and smashing windows. On its way to Hyde Park the front of the mob made an effort to enter fuel War Office, but turned away when the -sentinel at the entrance confronted the intruders with' his bayonet. Conspicuous among the buildings attacked by the mob were those occupied by the Devonshire Club and that occupied as a residence by Arnold Morley, the newly-appointed Patronage Secretary. The police along ihe route to Hyde Park were brushed out of the way by the rioters as so many men of straw, and many of the officers were terribly whipped for their interference. |