London, 13 October 1876 
41 Maitland Park Crescent, N. W. 

Dear Frankel, 

I could not answer your long letter, for which I am much 
obliged, because I was not clear about your situation, that is, did 
not know whether a letter from me might not be to your 
detriment if intercepted by chance, no matter how harmless its 
content might be.’ Will you be so kind as to explain to me, if 
possible, the following: What is the relationship between sown 
plains and highlands (the latter used possibly as pasture)? 

You are quite right to take part in editing a workers’ newspaper.* 

As for the so-called Swiss international congress,””° it is the work 
of the Alliancists—Guillaume and Company.” Knowing that 
they are worth absolutely nothing by themselves, they deem it 
necessary to step again into the limelight under the banner of 
‘unification’, which they could not do alone.*” Their plan was 
supported by the Malons, Pindys and other Arnoulds, who, 
frightened at the fact that the workers are ‘acting’ in Paris without 
them, are out to bring themselves back to people’s minds as 
patented representatives of the workers. On the other hand, 
Guillaume’s group cunningly took in Bebel while he was in 
Switzerland. However, this matters but little. The Gotha Congress 
did not appoint any official representative to the Swiss congress 
but contented itself with general rhetoric about the community of 
workers’ interests.'"? Meanwhile I sent a warning to Leipzig, and if 
any of them goes to the congress as a private person, he will take a 
negative stance on the blandishments of long-standing conspirators 
against the International. How you acted as a former member of the 
General Council and a delegate to the Hague Congress” is entirely 
understandable. You must not in the least succumb to the 
intoxication of reconciliation, a state in which scheming villains 
always swindle honest fools. 

They have just begun printing Lissagaray’s book”; he is now 
busy reading the first proofs. The scoundrels, the so-called labour 

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leaders (Englishmen), those whom I exposed at the Hague 
Congress, swallowed during the Russo-Bulgarian campaign over 
atrocities '*’ a handsome amount of five-pound notes from the 
great leaders Gladstone, Bright, Robert Lowe (the man who during 
the latest reform agitation '’ called the working class a swinish 
multitude *), Fawcett and others. But the plot is coming to a terrible 
end. These labour leaders, Mottershead and others, are the same 
dogs with whom it was impossible to hold a meeting against the 
butchers of the Commune. 

I am sending you the latest issue of The Diplomatic Review. 
Despite the space it gives Urquhart to unload his inanities, the 
journal contains weighty facts concerning the Bulgarian epidemic 
of atrocities by which Russia has fooled the whole of Christian 
liberal Europe.? 

I inform you on evidence from the most trustworthy source—and 
it would be a good thing to publish this fact in Hungarian 
papers—that some months ago the Russian government suspended 
the payment of interest due at fixed intervals to the Russian railways, 
and this completely in secret; every single department received 
private notification with orders to hold its tongue (and we know 
what that means in Russian). All this notwithstanding, the news of 
the fact reached not only me but also Reuter’s Telegraph Agency 
(the biggest member of the Holy Trinity of European telegraph 
agencies, Reuter— Havas— Wolff) but the good man withheld the 
news at the special request of the Russian Embassy in London. 

In any case, this is an edifying symptom of Russia’s financial 
embarrassment. Should the English bourgeois feel it, he will 
again become pro-Turkish, for no matter how much the Turks 
owe England, it is nothing compared to the Russian debt. 

Warm regards from my whole family. 

Your 
K. M.