Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1891 — GAUNT WANT. [ARTICLE]

GAUNT WANT.

Deporable Condition of the Poorer Classes in Berlin. rhe Military Necessary to Prevent Riots for Bread—The Facts Being Suppressed. ' ■ i ' _ According to a Berlin dispatch several eases of death from absolute want among the poorer classes have been covered up by the authorities as being entirely attributable to disease. The is a systematic effort on the part of the authorities, from the Department of State down to the lowsst municipal official, to minimize the misery that prevails owing to the high price >f bread. The police have been known to rebuke persons on the street who were heard talking about the corn duties in a tone of dissatisfaction, and they give a flat tenia! on every possible occasion to the reports of destitution. c 1 In this way they have managed to deceive some of the newspapers, while others are willing to thus misrepresent matter* without being deceived. The truth, says the United Press correspondent, Is that nearly every wage-earning family keenly feels the situation, and the Kaiser is losing, on account of it, much as the popularity which he earned by the advocacy of labor reforms. The Socialists are taking advantage of the general discontent to sow their doctrines broadcast, and expect to reap the harvest at the next election for the Reichstag. 'Military, as well as the police, are kept vigilant for signs of a riot