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“...DANIEL DE LEONOUR COMRADE. US
of The People. Frightened, inexperienced, unused to act
on my own responsibility, I feel that I would have gone com-
pletely to pieces under the strain had it not been for the fact
that De Leon was at my elbow-literally at my elbow. On
every serious question, in every dilemma that presented itself
I needed but to consult him-the living, active force. More
and more his genius will inspire the working classand we are
near the day when he must and will conquer. In his life-time
he was too often like a prophet thundering in the desert, or. as
the words of Ibsen: Like one that floats afar, storm-shat-
U But now his time has come at last
d beyond a doubt. We see evidences of it on every hand.
And now, in conclusion, comrades of the S. L. P., working-
men of the United States and the world, all of you for whom
he lived and worked, let us resolve to live as he lived, true to
the cause giving to it whole-heartedly the very best there is
we together shall have conqueredthe...”
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“...148
WITH DE LEON SINCE 8S>.
semWy. De Leon was ffiven the floor, but afterward his
statements, to the published proceedings, were deliberately
misquoted by Trautmann.
I was accused of the monstrous crime of having consulted
Ue Leon before expressing an opinion as General Executive
oard member on certain questions. I did not only consult
De Leon but frankly so stated in my official communications
to general headquarters. How ridiculous would it not
sound today if we should read somewhere in the archives of
e early history of the Socialist movement that some official
o a German or English trade union had been accused of having
consulted Marx on questions then confronting the movement I
sounds equally ridiculous even today, and will sound more
so as the years roll by and as deeds of yesterday and today
become history, to have been accused of consulting De Leon
on questions regarding the labor movement. Woe to the ene-
mies of the working class, had the labor union officials all
consulted De...”
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