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“...a sight to behold. It was
the incarnation of Aesops fable about the ass in a lions skin;
its braying deceived only children, or adults with a childs men-
tal faculties.
There were thus two papers printed, each claiming to be
the organ of the Socialist Labor Party. The bolters claimed
to be the S. L. P. The bogus People in the first week reached
the readers first, and the management of the Volkszeitung, hav-
ing been intrusted by the party with its publication, was rec-
ognized at first by the postal authorities. Many of the new
readers of The People were positively puzzled when instead of
receiving one copy of the paper they received two, each claim-
ing to be the genuine, each claiming to be the official organ of
the Socialist Labor Party.
Kangaroos Beaten in Court
The Volkszeitung crowd nominated candidates and made
attempts to parade as the Socialist Labor Party. It was on that
account that they were christened kangaroos by De Leon, re-
calling the kangaroo courts of Civil War times that...”
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