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“...DAKIEL DE LEOXOUR COMRADE. 95
"I have just read your article on the Ferri-Bulgaria
search-light, and have passed it on to my assistant with my
Papal Imprimaturconsent to be printed.
The article gave me great pleasure. Not only is it agree-
able to one to see he is understood, but it is especially sooth-
ing to me to notice that my martyrdom is realized. It has
been a martyrdom to me to see De Leonism run into the
ground. There are those whom I call the Knipperdollings of
our movement. Such elements are, however sincere, a posi-
tive danger to the best of principles. Of course, the Debs
party has its Knipperdollings too. But that is no balm to
my woundswhich never have been inflicted but by men
from within.
On October 19, 1907, after having related some of the an-
tics of National Secretary Bohn and the Sub-Committee, he
added:
That this does not conduce to encouragement of me you
may well imagine. But it shall not discourage me. I shall
face the music. They are a lot of belated Kanglets...”
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“...WITH DE LEON SINCE 89. 87
the city of Paris. It was at this congress that the Kautsky
Resolution was adopted. This resolution, proposed by Karl
Kautsky, who posed as the sage of the movement in Ger-
many, aye, in all Europe, was voted for by all the parties rep-
resented at that congress, with the exception of a few scattered
votes from Italy and Bulgaria, the Irish Workers Republican
Party, and the Socialist Labor Party of America.
M. Millerand, the present [July, 1915] Minister of War in
France, was then an active member in the French Socialist
movement. To save the Republic he accepted a portfolio in
the French ministry, in the same cabinet with General Galliffet.
the butcher of the Commune. Jules Guesde and his faction
demanded that the International Congress should repudiate
Millerandism. Jean Jaures, who at that time had faith in the
co-operation of classes," asked for an endorsement of Miller-
and s action. Kautskys resolution was to solve the question,
was he not the best informed...”
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