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Rh its appeal to workmen, to small employers of labour, to peasants; and in spite of Engels, it aims at reaching the farmers; it is at times patriotic; at other times it declares against the Army. It is stopped by no contradiction, experience having shown that it is possible, in the course of an electoral campaign, to group together forces which, according to Marxian conceptions, should normally be antagonistic. Besides, cannot a Member of Parhament be of service to electors of every economic situation?

In the end the term "proletariat" became synonymous with oppressed; and there are oppressed in all classes: German Socialists have taken a great interest in the adventures of the Princess of Coburg. One of our most distinguished reformers, Henri Turot, for a long time one of the editors of the Petite Répuhlique and municipal councillor of Paris, has written a book on the "proletariat of love," by which title he designates the lowest class of prostitutes. If one of these day the suffrage is granted to women, he will doubtless be called upon