[191] John Rae (Contemporary Review, June, 1881).
[192] One candidate was elected in two districts which required a new election in one of them, in which the social democrats lost. This reduced the number of their members to twelve.
[193] The leading organ of the social democrats, the Sozial-demokrat, of Zurich, gave a fair report of the proceedings, which was reprinted in the Vorbote of Chicago, May 5, 1883.
[194] This quotation is taken from my article in the International Review on “Bismarck’s Plan,” etc., May, 1882. The remaining quotations in this chapter are taken from the same article when no other reference is given.
[195] Vide a description of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Employees’ Relief Association, by B. J. Ramage, in the Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science.
[196] The first four conditions are taken from the American translation of Roscher; the fifth is translated by the author from a subsequent German edition.
[197] Mehring, S. 80.
[198] Born in 1833.
[199] The Rev. Samuel A. Barnett mentions the following as socialistic laws on the statute-book of England: “The Poor Law,” “The Education Act,” “The Established Church,” “The Land Act,” and “The Libraries Act;” vide his article on “Practicable Socialism” (Nineteenth Century Magazine, April, 1883).
[200] Cf. Lev. xxv. and Deut. xv.