[165] The Fourteenth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor for 1883 goes to substantiate this theory. In 1875 the “percentage of wages paid of value of product” in over two thousand establishments was 24.68; in 1880 only 20.33. _Vide_ p. 371; cf. also other statistics on the same page and on p. 370. [166] “Normal Arbeitstag;” _Tübinger Zeitschrift_, S. 361. [167] “Offener Brief,” etc., in Lassalle’s “Reden,” Bd. i. S. 270. [168] Cf. Lassalle’s “Reden,” Bd. i. SS. 40-42, where this thought is brought out clearly and forcibly. [169] I do not mean by this to state that I consider the explanation correct. [170] “Hülfstafeln zu Preisberechnungen für Zimmerarbeiten, auf Grundlage der durchschnittlichen Leistung der Arbeiter,” von H. Peters. Schwerin i. M., and “Hülfsbuch zur Aufstellung von Lohnregulativen und Preisberechnungen für Bautischlerarbeiten, mit Angabe des Materialbedarfs und des durchschnittlichen Arbeitswerths nach Stunden und Minuten,” von H. Peters (Berlin, 1877). [171] For these and other facts, _vide_ Mehring’s “Die Deutsche Social-Demokratie,” ch. v. [172] This translation, by Ernest Jones, appeared in John Rae’s “The Socialism of Karl Marx and the Young Hegelians” (_Contemporary Review_, October, 1881). [173] Second edition (Hamburg, 1872). [174] “Wochenausgabe,” 23. März, 1883. [175] “Das Kapital,” 2te Aufl. S. 793. [176] “Das Kapital,” S. 158. [177] Quoted by Knies in “Das Geld,” S. 53. [178] “Das Kapital,” SS. 656, 657. [179] A good account is given in Rudolf Meyer’s “Emancipationskampf,” etc., Bd. i. SS. 93-174. The Frenchman Villetard has written a “History of the International,” which was translated into English by Susan M. Day, and published in New Haven in 1874. [180] _Vide_ De Laveleye’s “European Terror” (_Fortnightly Review_, April, 1883). [181] “Die Philosophie Heracleitos des Dunkeln,” 2 Bde. On account of his absorption in the celebrated Hatzfeldt case for eight years, it was not published until 1858. [182] _Vide_ “Briefe von Lassalle und Carl Rodbertus-Jagetzow, mit einer Einleitung von Adolf Wagner” (Berlin, 1878), SS. 44, 67, 71, 72. [183] This matter was referred by Louis Blanc to Karl Blind, who advised him to not grant the request, as he had no faith in Lassalle, believing that he intended from the start to “sell out” to Bismarck. _Vide_ article on Louis Blanc, in _Die Gegenwart_, 6. Januar, 1883. [184] Quoted from my article on “Bismarck’s Plan for Insuring German Laborers” (_International Review_, May, 1882). [185] _Vide_ Lassalle’s “Ronsdorfer Rede,” held May 22, 1864, and published in Berlin. [186] See first note above. [187] On the 17th of September, 1878. I translate Bismarck’s words as given in his “Ausgewählte Reden,” Bd. iii. SS. 131, 132. [188] “Political Economy,” bk. ii. chap. xi. sec. 2. [189] Bk. i. ch. viii. [190] _Beamtenfamilie_ is a common expression. [191] John Rae (_Contemporary Review_, June, 1881).