Show A vomlstle Gatkerixg New York 19Cooper Union was crowded to its utmost capacity by people gathered in honor to the memory of Karl Marx The red flag of the commune was everywhere every-where and the picture of the dead man framed In black and surmounted sur-mounted with the motto vine I1 in ternationaJe hung at the front of the platform P J Maguire Edward Ed-ward King Victor Drury John Most Dr A Donai and John winton win-ton made speeches The last named gave a graphic description of his first and Islet meeting with Marx at llamsgate England He eulogized the domestic and public virtnes of the dead socialist and said he had made an international watchword of the worlds workers He gave more than all to mankind when he gave himself Resolutions were read in English and German and were unanimously adopted They declared the world of labor plunged in sorrow and its most powerful thinker its noblest hero Karl Marx is no more His life and great power and his intellect have for thirty years been devoted to the cause of the laboring people In the field of social economy econ-omy and science he was the first to prove by figures and reasoniug based on universally recognized principles of political economy that capitalistic production must necessarily neces-sarily lead to monopolising and the concentration of all industry into the hands of the law and thus by roDbing the working classes of the fruits of their toil to reduce them to utter and absolute slavery and degradation The resolutions reso-lutions conclude by pledging a dissemination dis-semination of the ideas Of Mark to the world and the dedication of their lives to the cause of which he was the pioneer in which he left so noble a record and never to forget his appeal to thn workingmen of the world to unite Telegrams of condolence were received from Boston Bos-ton Maryland and New Jersey and from Henry George and Frederick Engel |