Manchester, 6 April 1869 

Dear Moor, 
Liebknecht has again had the good luck of fools. The vote of 

6,500 against 4,500 was a tremendous defeat for Schweitzer, even 
if it was not a direct victory for Wilhelm. The Kélner Zeitung says 
that Schweitzer was frightfully dismayed, and though he had 
declared earlier that he would resign if any sort of considerable 
minority were to vote against him, he has taken a lot of care not to 
do so.” 

In any case, Schweitzer’s campaign for the kingdom of the 
tailors has failed, and his position in his own association has been 
shaken severely. N’est pas dictateur qui veut The process of the 
disintegration of specific Lassalleanism has thus begun, and is 
bound to continue rapidly. The figures 6,500:4,500 mean either a 
split or abandonment of the ‘strict’? organisation and Schweitzer’s 
personal leadership. So far Liebknecht’s foolhardiness has had a 
good effect. And under these circumstances I shall not take it 
amiss that he has let himself in for a new armistice,*” although 
this is the third case between the two of them of ‘cad’s fighting, 
when ended, is very soon mended’. 

The copies of Zukunft follow enclosed. Unfortunately, the 
Reichstag debate on industrial legislation is very poorly 
reported in them. There is nothing more comical than Schweitzer’s 
lecture on the socialist demands, culminating in the declaration 
that he favours trades freedom” up to Wagener, Miquel et Co.‘ 
Simply childish babble. Best by far was Bebel.>** 

I am sending the B. Becker to Lessner today. I hear that the 
latest Fortnightly has an article on it. 

4 Not everyone who wishes is a dictator. A paraphrase from Victor Hugo’s 
Napoleon le petit -> J. B. Schweitzer, [Speech in the North German Diet, 17 
March, 1869}, Die Zukunft, No. 66, 19 March, 1869. - © H. Wagener, [Speech in 
the North German Diet, 17 March, 1869], Die Zukunft, No. 66, 19 March, 1869; 
J. Miquel, [Speech in the North German Diet, 18 March 1869], Die Zukunft, No. 67, 
20 March, 1869. - ¢ B. Becker, Enthüllungen tiber das tragische Lebensende Ferdinand 
Lassalle’s... - € J. M. Ludlow, ‘Ferdinand Lassalle, the German Social-Democrat’, 
The Fortnightly Review, Vol. V, No. XXVIII, 1 April 1869. 

I shall send you the Zukunft on Schweitzer and Liebknecht, and 
immediately if there is anything more in it; I assume that 
Liebknecht sent them a report straight away. 

Your 
F. E.