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THE READER who forwarded the manuscript for this article to us, described it aswritten during late I869 or early 1870 by "my maternal grandmother's father, alegendary, if shadowy figure in my family's oral tradition." We publish it here with aminimum of editing, and voice our regret that it had not been published 112 yearsearlier.The Dr. <strong>Karl</strong> <strong>Marx</strong> Of London who has published enflame passions among our laboring men against ourrecently a volume of his work on the subject of American System, and thus divide the forces of ourpolitical economy, 1 has been since several years ago nation to the advantage of our ancient and relentlessthe principal spokesman for the International Working adversary. Dr. <strong>Marx</strong>'s Capital must be refuted.Men's Association, an organization which directs its The name of the Jacobin cause, to which Signoractivities on both sides of the Atlantic from a head- Mazzini and Dr. <strong>Marx</strong> adhere, was taken from the sitequarters in that city. The Association was founded by of the Dominican convent on the Rue St. Jacques inthat same Signor Joseph Mazzini with whom Dr. Paris. 4 For no less than the recent hundred years,<strong>Marx</strong> has been allied on behalf of some Jacobin Jacobinism has been an instrument of policy controlledundertakings since a time preceding the commotions by the group of Calvinist banking families of theof 1848. The recently published volume, Capital, is the French-speaking canton of Switzerland. These familiesfirst notable attempt to examine the subject of political are dominated by the Mallets and de Neuflizes, botheconomy by any among the associates of Signor of which have branches of powerful influence withinMazzini.Britain.S To possess a list of the regular correspondentsLike Professor Hegel, Dr. <strong>Marx</strong> is distinguished by of M. Voltaire is to begin to uncover the loathsomehis contradictions. He and his aristocratic wife (n6e deeds these bankers have employed. M. Jean-JacquesWestphalen) are Prussians by birth, education, and Rousseau was theirs. They were the controlling forcecitizenship, but have been living in reduced circum- behind Dr. Franklin's chief freemasonic adversary instances in London, continuously for approximately a France, the Duke ofOrl6ans. 6score of years. During this period, he has remained It was these bankers, acting in concert with Lordunder the supervision of such associates of Signor Shelburne and Barings bank of London, who imposedMazzini as Mr. David Urquhart, the latter of the a Swiss citizen, Jacques Necker, upon King Louis XVIBritish Library in that city. 2 Although Dr. <strong>Marx</strong> as finance minister of France, as, in a like manner, thedefended the American cause against the wickedness same forces brought another Swiss agent, M. Albertof Lords Russell and Palmerston, during and following Gallatin, into a controlling influence over the minds ofthe period he was an occasional foreign contributor to Messrs. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. As theMr. Charles Dana's New York Tribune, 3 he defends the United States was almost ruined by Gallatin's influenceBritish System of political economy against our Amer- over these Presidents, M. Necker brought Louis XVIican System with the blind zeal of a religious convert, into bankruptcy in 1789. vHe asserts the British System to be the most perfect The circles of Dr. Franklin's friends in France,yet practiced by any tribe, yet gloats like a miser over which were rallied there around Gilbert Marquis deeach new piece of loathsome evil he discovers that Lafayette, sought to turn this Swiss crime to ansystem to harbor. He praises himself for each blunder advantage. They prepared to provide the King ahe believes he has uncovered in the writings of the Mr. constitution modeled chiefly on that which had beenDavid Ricardo he admires more than any other. The just recently adopted by the United States. This wouldwritings of the British East India Company's Messrs. have appeared to have reduced the monarch's authorityAdam Smith and David Ricardo, he praises and de- to that of a chief of state, with limited powers likespises as the only existing opinions on the subject of those of our own President. It would have crushed thepolitical economy worth Dr. <strong>Marx</strong>'s criticism, power of the monarch's chief adversaries, that feudalistDr. <strong>Marx</strong> arrived in London as Oedipus to his interest within France which was allied to the Swissfather's kingdom, to kill that father, and to find and London bankers.blindness. This happy endeavor was frustrated by means ofAmong the literate laboring men on both sides of actions funded and directed by the Duke of Orl6ans,the Atlantic who admire that author as their chief who employed a mob of criminals under his directionpolitical spokesman, Dr. <strong>Marx</strong>'s genuine disabilities to sack the Bastille. s The purpose gained by thiswill be overlooked. In such places, the book and its commotion, was to force the King once again toembedded Jacobin's doctrine will be admired and appoint M. Jacques Necker to power, this time as firstperhaps studied. If the book satisfies its intent, it would minister of France. 9 Later, the duke employed a largerCAMPAIGNER / October 1983 9