A friend? has sent me, from Germany, Concordia. Zeitschrift für 
die Arbeiterfrage, No. 10, dated March 7, in which this “organ of 
the German Manufacturers’ Association” publishes an editorial 
entitled “How Karl Marx Quotes”. 

In the Inaugural Address of the International Working Men’s 
Association I quote, amongst other material, a portion of 
Gladstone’s budget speech of April 16, 1863, which is not 
contained in Hansard’s semi-official report of parliamentary 
debates.'”> On this basis, with comfortable manufacturers’ logic the 
Concordia concludes: “This sentence is nowhere to be found in 
Gladstone’s speech”, and jubilates in the fullness of its heart with 
this mocking sentence in manufacturers’ German, printed in 
mocking bold face: 


‘‘Marx has added the sentence lyingly, both in form and in content.” 


It would, in fact, be extremely strange if the Inaugural Address, 
originally printed in English in London under Gladstone’s 
very eyes, had placed in his mouth a sentence interpolated by me, 
a sentence that, for seven and a half years, circulated unchalleng- 
ed in the London press, to be finally detected by the “learned 
men” of the German Manufacturers’ Association in Berlin. 

The sentence in question of the Inaugural Address reads as 
follows: