Herr Tisza, the Hungarian Premier, addressed his constitu- ents on
Thursday, in a speech intended to be a grave exposition of his policy as regards the recent crisis. He is determined that all political and agrarian rioting shall be put down, though he will treat submissive rioters leniently ; and he is specially severe upon the anti-Semitic movement. He maintains that this is essentially a movement for the destruction of property, though the rioters appeal to " occult prejudices," and threatens that if the commotions increase, "temporary restrictions of liberal life will have to be employed." He would rather, however, employ social means, and calls on all Hun- garians to draw to themselves honest men, without inquiry into creed, and to spurn him that is not honest. The rioters, we fear, would answer that is precisely what they are doing when they kill usurers. The language of Herr Tisza is suffi- cient to prove the seriousness of the disturbances, and their Socialistic character. They are spreading, it is stated, into the Cis-Leithan provinces, but no clear evidence of this has yet been given.
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