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“...DANIEL DE LEON THE PILOT
TO HIS WIDOW
By F. B. Guamier.
He tarried for a while at the island of the lotus-eaters, a
race of visionaries, and scantily partook of their food, but,
stronger than Ulyssess, his mind was not dulled by it, and in
the social waters he saw a ship being rigged and to it be
went. He inquired whence it came and for where it was to
set sail. Fore and aft he examined, and he inspected the bull
and the beams and the sides and the masts and the sails, and
he put ballast in it and helped in trimming its sails, and be
saw that it was fitly caulked for the arduous voyage. And
he equipped it with a compass lately devised by one Marx,
an old sailor, whose theories on social navigation had been
spurned in his age and then were beginning to be circulated.
And the crew proclaimed their Pilot this man who bad
so endeared himself to them because he was so wise and yet
so unassuming, so human. In the distance, but clearly, be
saw a beautiful sky, he saw green and flowery fields,...”
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“...of the crew sought safety and in fear fell
overboard or jumped to oblivion.
The Pilot diligently watched the compass and steered his
wheel. And his crew received inspiration from him, and cries
were heard from a few that had left the ship that its course
was insane; from a few that the Pilot was a poor navigator,
that the promised land lay in the opposite direction and that
he should steer backward.
The sea became calmer, the horizon clearer. Some of the
people who inhabited islands nearer to the great land thought
him a master pilot, for he had dared go so far and they shout-
ed encouragement to him. And in some of the islands crept
reptiles that hissed defeat. But the Pilot stood at the wheel
by night and by day, imparting great knowledge to the crew,
solaced by the presence of his life-companion and of his chil-
dren, making charts for the safety of future navigators. And
he partook of little food that he might not lose sight of the
compass. But the work which he had incessantly, so faith-...”
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“...DANIEL DE LEON THE PILOT.
hausted him. And the sight of the approaching island caused
his heart to beat faster, weakened his pulse, and the Pilot suc-
cumbed at the wheel.
But the sea you charted we shall sail, O Pilot!
n...”
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“...Cleveland Anarchist at third convention of I. W. W.,
II. 131.
Gompers, Samuel, I. 25, 49, 64; defeat of, by McBride, at Den-
ver Convention of 1892, II. 17; attitude of, toward politi-
cal action, 19; remarks of, on Marx and De Leon, 20-21;
slandering of De Leon by, 59; methods used by, against
Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance, 75-76.
Gretsch, Benjamin J., National Secretary Socialist Labor Party,
I. 4.
Gruber, Abe, lawyer for Kangaroos, II. 71.
Guarnier, F. B., tribute by, to Daniel De Leon the Pilot, IT.
169-171.
Haase, German Socialist, II. 15.
Hagerty, Thomas, a signer of Industrial Union Manifesto, II.
107.
Hanford, Ben, II. 68.
Hardie, Keir, meeting addressed by, in Troy, II. 40-41.
Harriman, Job, San Francisco supporter of Kangaroos, II, 72.
Harris, Ephraim, member of party opposed to S. L. P., II. 94.
Harrison, Caleb, a speaker at Paterson, II. 160.
Hayes, Max, I. 25-26; Cleveland supporter of Kangaroos, II. 72.
Haywood, William D leadership of I. W. W. by, I. 51; lost
opportunity of...”
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