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“...the Socialist Labor Party, I was at first taken
aback. I knew what that meant in point of research, in gather-
ing again the mass of material that had passed through my
hands during the formative and most stressful period of the
Partys existence and I also felt that, not being able to give to
so important an undertaking a measure of time ample enough
to insure painstaking performance, I would have to rely, ex-
tensively, upon the indulgence of the reader, the more so since
I can not, by any stretch of the imagination, be considered an
historian, either by others or by myself.
However, the idea once implanted did not let me rest, but
continued to revolve in the mind. I realized that the time is,
perhaps, not far distant when that which I can say now, as
well as the material I can yet gather and preserve in print,
for such use as our movement might be able to make of in the
future, could not perhaps be said and gathered any more and
might be thus lost forever. Accordingly, I made an effort...”
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