The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-26
GETS BIG LIBRARY
University of Wisconsin To Have
Splendid Collection ofBooks
on Socialism Soon
FILES OF PAPERS SECURED

The University Of Wisconsin has JUS
received very valuable addition tC
its already large library for the study
OF the labor movement by the gift Of
the extensive library Of rare German
socialistic literature collected during 8
life time by Herman Schluter, editor OF
the New York Volkszeiting. The col
lection is given to the University by
William English Walling Of New York
City and a number of other men who
are interested in the work Of the
American Bureau Of Industrial Research
The Schluter collection is the most com
plete library Of German socialistic lit.
erature in existence. It contains works
Of German socialist authors which are
not to be found even in the party
archives Of the German Social Democ-
racy in Berlin. DR.. Schluter, who was
for mary years active in German Apoli-
teal life, collected much extremely
rare and invaluable materia, concerning
the earliest and in many respects OBJ
scure socialist movement IN Germany
in the 4O's Of the Nineteenth Century
Among others are the very rare first
works OF Marx and Engels. The library
is also important FOR the great number
Of official documents on the socalistic
movement in other countries, including
much material for a history of socialist
and labor movements i'll the United
States. The Schluter collection will
strengthen materially the university
library in economics, political science,
and history, which is recognized as the
| hest in the country for the study of the
labor movement
Among the rarest items in the collec-
ton are some fifty different books ON
the beginnings of the socialist move
ment, including the first works of Marx
and Engels. The first socialist articles
Of Marx and Engels were published in
the Franzbsischen Jahrbucher, which
was issued by Marx in Paris in 1874 A
copy is included in this library. An
other joint work Of these writer's, "Die
heilige Familie, Gegen Bruno Bauer and
Consorten, which appeared in 1915;
and Marx s celebrated denunciation of
Proudhom, FFMisere de la Philosophie, -
Paris, 1847, together with the Revue
der Neuen Rhainischen Zeitung, which
Marx brought out in 1850, are other i'm
portant parts Of this library.
| Tho Sob1,7+or .ooIloo+;o,,
tains many of the leaflets and pamph-
lets which are secretly circulated after
| the socialist law Of 1878 made socialist
literature Illegal This leaflet and
pamphlet collection is of great value
historically, since only by means of it
is it possible to form a true Judgment
concerning the German party struggles
OF the time. In this collection are also
found nearly all of the pamphlets
printed in the CO.'S and 70's previous to
the exclusion law against social democ-
laey in 1873
There are almost complete proceed
lngs Of all the socialist congresses of
| the German, Austrian and Swiss social
lst parties SO far as those have been
published in separate form. The cen
trail organs of the German central
democracy, and those of the socialist
party which are printed in foreign
countries and secretly circulated in
Germany, likewise form a part of the
collection. Among these periodicals
are the celebrated EFDemocratisches
Wachenblatt,'' edited by William Lieb-
knecht, 1869; the equally celebrated
Volksstizt, /" Vorwarts, !" 1868:
"The LANTERN of Karl Hirsch !:
Brussels; "The Social Democrat pub
lished in Zurnich and London, 1879 80.
and absolutely indispensable for the
history of the labor and socialist move
ments of these years; and "Freiheit,'
for the period when this was a social
democratic and not anarchistic pub1ica-
tion. Their are also in the collection
various files of the socialist labor pan
ers published later in Berlin.