A remarkable Socialist demonstration against the Prussian Franchise Bill took
place in Berlin last Sunday with the permission of the police. Three great meetings were held, two of which were purely Socialist, and the dis- cipline and quiet maintained throughout, both on the way to the meeting-places and during the demonstration, are described by the Times correspondent as something almost uncanny. Speeches, mostly inaudible, were delivered to motionless crowds, and finally, after a resolution condemning the amended Franchise Bill, and pledging those present "not to rest until complete equality of all citizens has been achieved in Prussia," had been carried, the demonstrators marched quietly away. Their numbers were formidable—a hundred thousand were present in Treptow Park alone—but the political discipline which enabled the Socialist leaders to make good their pledge that their comrades would show Prussian obedience was an even more impressive feature in this unprecedented demonstration.
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