SOCIALISM AND SUICIDE. 4 The recent suicide through fear of old age of M. Paul Lafargue and his wife, the daughter of Karl Marx, both prominent Socialists, whoso funeral took place on December 3," was attended by thousands of Socialists, ami had a tragic seriiti'l. M. Vincent Courlignon, a prominent member of tho Socialist party, living at Montlucon (on (he•Cher), and a friend and disciple of 11. I.afargue, was so affected by his master's untimely end thai ho shot himself. M. Courtignon had been ill for some- time past. "Oh, my friends!" exclaimed the orator, "it makes mo sad when 1 think of thn flavj that me gone, when I look around and miss tho old familhr faces I used to sJuikc hands witiu"
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1338, 16 January 1912, Page 6
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124Page 6 Advertisements Column 5 Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1338, 16 January 1912, Page 6
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