Letter to Hermann Schluter, December 2, 1893 (1)

From Marxists-en
Jump to navigation Jump to search


ENGELS TO HERMANN SCHLÜTER

IN HOBOKEN

No. 1

[London], 2 December 1893

Dear SchlĂŒter,

Many thanks for your good wishes and for Census Compendium I which was most welcome and of which No. II will be more welcome still.[1] So the Americans are no longer as liberal as they used to be, and even a big journal does not get such things merely for the asking! All is well over here; I am once more at work on Vol. III[2] and it is with pleasure that I look back on the trip I made this summer. You people are now at last about to rid yourselves of bimetallism and the McKinley tariff and this should give a considerable boost to progress over there. Although a thorough-going collapse of silver might have gone a long way towards enlightening your remarkably stupid American farmer in regard to his cheap money. Regards from Mrs Kautsky.

Yours,

F.E.

Census book—see second postcard.

  1. ↑ Department of the Interior, Census Office. Compendium of the Eleventh Census: 1890, Parts I-II, Washington, 1892-1894.
  2. ↑ of Capital