New-York tribune., 1878-04-27

recently made himself conspicuous stirrer-up OF
disorder in this city; Osborn Ward. an American
aritator. who previous to the Franco-Prussian war
visited most of the cooperative societies In the diI-
ferent countries of Europe engineering the projects
Of the International; and Edouard David, French
man. who afterward published in lie Socidhste, OF
New-York an explanation of his reasons for reject
ing some of the conclusions at which the Hague
Congress arrived. A trial of strength between the
"Federastr delegates Who opposed political organ
i,atiou. and the CentraizIng General Council
led by Karl Marx ended in the utter defeat o1 the
former Karl Marx was good organizer ana u
masterful leader. He succeeded in driving out OF Tue
Congress the French party of Blanqul, ana the hou
crate party of the English, the SWISS ana tIe
Begans; and the net result Of an angry conference
was the l0dgment of all the effective power OF ''
organization in the hands of the extreme 6crhai
Centralists. This point gained, and all tie mod
crates being worsted it became an interesting ques-
tiOn where and how the reconstructed General Coi-
ell could best continue the work so elaDorateIy
planned and so pcrsistenty carried 1Or""u'
England had shown the cold shoulder; france was
entirely out of the question; neither at Leipzig ho'
at Berlin would the International be pcIintleu "
sit 1t was resolved to establish headquarters IN INC
City of Ncw-YoTk. (See the lndePndaace Do9e'
London Times London Spectator and cable dispatcncS
IN the New York papers of September, 1S72D I'VE
do not at all grudge DR.. Karl Marx to Ncw-iorK,
said The London Suectdtor of September III; on the
contrary. we think London can well spare him.
Karl Marks acceptance of the responsibility placed
upon his shoulders appeared in The LOROR Times III
January. 1873 under his own signature aud the
Iost clause of ms letter. written in reply to some
protest issued by the French malcOntcnts, estaD-
lisbcd thc fact that the centre OF operations nan
been formally transferred TO Ncw-iOik. III III
France individuals have been expelled IRON
Inc International" wrote Marx 'it has been
by the local Sections. and not at aii
by the New-Yorll General Council" letter OF Jam
uary ., 1873 III The London Tmcs
The close of the year 1872. therefore, witnessed
the transfer of IncrnationaIst headquarters from
London to New-York. This completes another link
in the chain Of evidence
y
The transfer was not regarded with favor by the
American people nor the American press. -aSaclous
observers of affairs knew il pOrtended evil. Many
of our public journals pointed ont that The purpose
of the change was to employ the machinery OF n
mischicvous organization To create dscopi between
captal and labor in the United states, I" stir up
our industrial class to deeds Of violence, Ia vsrupon
society. and 10 attempt, by undcrhanded methods
10 achieve in this country the ends II was unable 10
compass in Europe. Proof was soon AZ hand that
the Internaionali.ts had begun TO busy themselves
with the workingmcn. In January, 1873, labor
agitations broke out in Ncw-OTlcans. On the "a OF
February letter written by one John Littc, Of
that city, was openly read AZ a regular Sunda! seS-
son of the international Society in Ncw-(orl IN
which il was stated that the workingmcn
of New-Oreans were fast getting To That
state of desperation" when change
in their condition must be made: that " the mann r
in which it is to be changed will be no object 70
them; that letter had been sent tothe Chief OF the
Fire Department of Ncw-Odcans, notifying HIN
that the city would he laid in ashes on the l7th
Of January aud that in consequence of his warning
gEardshaA been placed charge Of The fire apparatus,
and the police patrol had been doubled "Ihc capital
ISIS are in dread was the cheerful comment added
bv Mr. Little III his cpistic addressed 10 "Cliizcn
Hubert. Corresponding Secretary of the lntcrna-
tional Society," in Ncw-IoTk. The Communists
had begun their work bctimcs They came here 10
nfame the minds Of the working classes, and they
did their work so thoroughly that the events Of
1877 are no longer wondcriulnor inexplicablc when
studied by the light of history. Ncw-Orlcan5 was
not burned in 1873, nor Ncw-York sacked ~ 1877
but neither city owed its safety to the Information
alists.
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While the plottcrs who figured at The liagnc had
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