Evening star., 1921-09-11
FIFTY YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR

Karl Marx, leader Of the Interna-
tional Society, died in London on the
5th Of September.
Internafiona1s, 1871. The Star the
Leader Dead. ne next uaon oay e1%"1nss on" '1lfe
work and his influence as q radical
in a manner that is Of interest at this
time when MARKS doctrines are on
trial in Russia. and many OF the vio-
lent remedies he proposed have been
applied there and attempted in or,-
| countries:
I Yesterdays Star contained a brief
of DR.. Karl Marx. the leading spirit
of the internationally What effect
this will have upon the future Of that
formidable organization remains to
be seen. The association has been
from the very moment of it's foun-
dation up to the present day almost
entirely the work OF a single man,
and that man. the deceased DIR. Karl
Marx, q German emigrant who re-
sided 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 at
tention to philosophy, Hegefs espe-
cially. and afterwards to politics and
political economy. In 1S4l he took
his professorship at Bonn and became
in the following year the editor of
Rheintsche Zeitung of Cologne. the
first paper openly opposed to the gov
ernment of Prussia. In spite OF q
double censorship instituted over the
enough to win the sympathies of all
the liberals. until then afraid to utter
a single syllable Of opposition. and
the government suppressed his paper
by an act of force. DIR. Marx then
went for safety to Paris. Here he
until the Prussian government de-
manded his expulsion from French
territory. and Louis Philippe yielded
to the urgent request.
"After-many vicissitudes. being drtv-
en- from one European city to another.
he settled in London and watched all
the societies which formed themselves
on the continent as well as in Eng
land. The trades unions formed a
subject of his particular attention UP
to 1862, when the first idea of form
ing an international society seems to
have been conceived. He originated
the association in 1854 and with the
assistance of young countryman
named Engels and Mr.. Cowell Step
ney. an Englishman, managed Its al
fairs to the time Of his death. The
power welded by him and his asso-
ciates has been immense, extending
among the workingmen OF Christian
Europe. The influence OF the society
as an infiamer of communistic repub-
licanism has been growing rapidly.
especially within the past twelve
months, till it Is now bugbear in
France. Germany. Spain, Italy, Portu-
gal and other countries, and the dread
of it is shown in the exaggerated re-
ports of its objects and designs, which
reach us in European papers.
THE central committee lately heio
a meeting in London and Felix Pyat.
Bergeret and other refugee members
of the commune took part in the dls-
cussion at which, according to reports
from a Spanish paper, 1t was resolved
to shrink before no obstacle IN oroer
to carry to success the principles OF
the internationals. In consideration
that the greatest of those obstacles
are NJ. Theirs and the kings OF Bel
gium, Italy. Spain and Portugal, IL
was determined that they be assassl-
mated 1t was also resolved to set nre
to all factories, workshops ana the
establishments which serve as me-
dunn of industry. and also to ourn
down all depots Of agricultural prod
uce, SO as thus to compel hungry
and unemployed workman to take part
| in the social war. The English gov.
ernment is said to have been informe
| of these plans, but considered that IL
ought to take no notice of the doings
of these .lunatic demagogues.