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“...DANIEL DE LEONAN ORATION
BY CHAS. H. CORREGAM.
[Delivered tt the second annual commemoration of De Leon's
birthday, held at Laurel Garden, New York City,
on Dec. 14, 1916.]
Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends:
In this celebration of the natal day of Daniel De Leon, I
believe we are taking a page from the calendar of the future
and dedicating it to the memory of one who will be consid-
ered the foremost exponent of the principles of Socialism in
America and of his time.
Those who will follow us and will lack the opportunity of
seeing and hearing and knowing De Leon which we enjoyed,
will look to us for an estimate of his life, his character, and
his services, and it is our duty to his memory and to their en-
lightenment to utilize these anniversaries in order to convey
to them the contemporary estimate of the man, that they may
truly weigh and determine his place in the history of the strug-
gle waged that they might enjoy freedom and plenty.
One who has been honored by an invitation...”
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