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“...said, We are getting ourselves
into religious complications here, which we had better straight-
en out before we become entangled beyond recall. I am per-
fectly willing to be a Pope; I am perfectly willing to be a rabbi,
but I insist upon having a ruling from the chair whether I am
to be a rabbi or a Pope, for to be both a rabbi and a Pope im-
plies a religious absurdity which I refuse to be a party to.
Then he sat down. The convention by this time was roaring,
the raving orator felt like the proverbial thirty cents, and I
have no doubt that from that time to the day of his death he...”
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“...had expected, the A. E. martyrdom expression spread over
his features, and I saw a sigh gather in his bosom as he handed
the letter to John Hossack, then manager of the Labor News
Company. As Hossack read his 'eyes danced, for he perceived
it at once to be a perfect satire on the "A. E. De Leon no-
ticed this; out came the sigh, and it was one of genuine relief.
Is it a joke? he gasped, and with that Hossack and I both
doubled up. It really took De Leon as long to see this as it
takes that proverbial Englishman of American creation to see
a joke, but when he finally did he laughed heartily and said it...”
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