Another of Busch's lines of business was the purchase of depreciated
shares and debentures, thousands of which he collected together,
selling them to bankrupts who found difficulty in accounting for real or
imaginary losses. His one redeeming feature was his extraordinary love
for his brother Sigismond, whom he nursed with the greatest care until
his death. L'Argent.
BUSCH (SIGISMOND), brother of Busch, the money-lender, was an able man,
educated at a German University, and speaking several languages. He had
met Carl Marx at Cologne in 1849, and became a contributor to the _New
Rhenish Gazette_. "From that time he professed Socialism with an ardent
faith, giving his entire being to the idea of an approaching social
renovation, which would assure the happiness of the poor and humble."
After his master was banished from Germany, Sigismond, engrossed in
his dreams, was so careless of his material affairs that he would have
perished of hunger had his brother not taken him to live with him. From
this time the elder Busch, ferocious as a wolf towards a debtor, looked
after his brother with almost maternal care, and was heart-broken when
Sigismond died of consumption a few years later.
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