Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-09-06
The Red Spectre.

Yesterdays STAR contained brief cable tele-
gram announcing the death of DR.. Karl Marx,
the leading spirit of the Internationale. What
effect this event win have upon the future of
that formidable organic alton remains to be seen.
The association has been from the very moment
OF its foundation mp to the present day almost
entirely the work Of single man, and that man
the deceased DR.. Karl Marx, German emigrant
who resided for more than twenty years past in
London. He was born in Treves, in 1918, and
was therefore in his fifty-third year at the time
Of his death. He studied law in Bonn and
Berlin, but soon turned all his attention to
philosophy, (Hegels Speciality and afterwards
TO politics and political economy. In 1871 he
took his professorship (PriratdocenD at Bonn,
and became in the following year the editor of
RAeiHtseke Zsituag Of Cologne, the first paper
openly opposed TO the government of Prussia
In spite of a double censorship instituted over
the paper Karl Marx managed to say enough to
win the sympathies of all the liberals, until then
afraid to utter asingle syllable ofopposition and
the government suppressed the paper by an act
of force. DIR. Marx went then for safety to Paris
Here he continued his liberal publications until
the Prussian government demanded his expul-
sion from French territory, and Louis PHILIPPE
yielded to the urgent request After many
yicissitudes, being driven from one European
city to another he settled in London, and
watched all the societies which formed them
selves on the Continent as well as in England.
The Trades Unions formed a subject OF his par
ticular attention up to 1862, when the first idea
of forming an international society seems to
have been conceived. He originated the associ-
alton in 1854, and with the assistance of young
countryman named Engels, and a Mr.. Cowell
Stepney, an Englishman, managed its affairs to
the time of his death. The power welded by
him and his associates has been immense, ex-
tending among the workingmen Of Christian
Europe. The influence of the society as an in
famer of cOmmunstic republicanism has been
rapidly growing, especially within the past
twelve months, until 1t is now a bugbear in
France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal and
the exaggerated reports of its objects and
designs, which reach in European papers.
The Central Committee lately held a meeting in
London, and Felix Pyat, Bergeret and other
refugee members of the Commune, took part in
the discussion, at which, according to reports in
a Spanish paper, ii was resolved to shrink before
obstacle in order to carry to success the prin-
ciples of the Internationale. In consideration
that the greatest of those obstacles are NJ Theirs
and the Kings OF Belgium, Italy, Spain and
Portugal, il was determined that they be assas-
sinated. 1t was also resolved to set fire to all
factories, workshops, and establishments which
serve as a medium for industry, and also to burn
down ali depOts Of agricultural produce, so as to
thus compel the hungry and unemployed work
men to take part in the social war. The English
Government is said to have been informed OF
these plans, but considered that il ought to take
no notice OF the doings OF these climatic dema-
gogues."