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“...WITH DE LEON SINCE 89. 61
In other organizations there were similar agents preparing
the ground everywhere for things that were to come. The
stories that were told about De Leon by these agents, his al-
leged hatred of Germans, his desire to wreck unions, and stories
about the vulgar language in The People, made some people
actually believe that De Leon was a monster. Whatever hap-
pened upon this planet that was bad they blamed on De Leon.
While on the road for the party in New York state some
years Ago I encountered an individual in a remote part of
Schoharie County, who told me with candor that when the
Democrats were in power we did not have half enough rain.
Similarly there were mental cripples who blamed De Leon for
everything.
In the 28th Assembly District, the district where De Leon
lived, the party organization was about evenly divided between
the loyal S. L. P. men and those who were leaning toward the
opposition. At the business meetings of this district there
were always warm...”
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“...who
could not pay spot cash for such honors, and Tammany heel-
ers were never known to work for love of cause or principle*
The nomination of Prince, who could not buy a round of drinks
unless he was doing label agitation, and thus paying with the
unions money, was a sacrifice by Tammany to save itself from
defeat by the Socialist Labor Party at the suggestion of the
Volkszeitung element.
Prince stood as low morally and intellectually as a man
can be imagined to stand in the labor movement,a vulgar ig-
noramus, he was a disgrace even to the A. F. of L., which re-
quires no great standard. While Tammany was whooping it
up for this fellow as candidate for the Assembly in the 16th,
the Volkszeitung came to his aid by the distribution of leaflets
telling Socialists not to vote, that there was no Socialist ticket
in the field, that De Leon had been expelled from the party,
and that he was a union wrecker. Tammany held the same
language.
Feverish Work to Beat De Leon
The scum of the great metropolis...”
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“...like
unto the kine, sinks into the mire of oblivion, to be forgotten
with the passing day.
The churl dies,and death ends all for himis thrown
into the ground, less valued than the rooting swine whose
carcass would at least make food for living men.
The lordling dies, and with much pomp and ceremonial
mummery is laid awayand all posterity recks not that he
lived.
The warrior dies, and, truly in his case, The path of glory
leads but to the grave.
The politician dies, and all his cunning tricks and vulgar
play at what he deems great statesmanship, availeth not to
make his name immortal; een though the fool has had it
carved in stone on public edifice or shaft, he is as dead as is
the stone itself.
The king dies, and if the thing he stands for still survives,
some lackey, to another figurehead bows low, and, rising,
cries aloud: Long live the King!
The great financial master dies, and though with pharisaic
glee and much pretence, and gifts galore from his ill-gotten
gains, he has besought the world...”
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“...Works by DanielJ De Leon
As to Politics,
- Bergers Hit and Misses.
Burning Question of Trades Unionism.
De Leon-Berry Debate.
De Leon-Carmody Debate.
De Leon-Harriman Debate.
Father Gassoniana
- Fifteen Questions
Flashlights of the Amsterdam Congress.
Industrial Unionism.
James Madison and Karl Marx.
Marx on Mallock.
Money.
- Reform or Revolution.
' Socialism vs. Anarchism.
Socialist Reconstruction of Society.
Two Pages from Roman History.
The Trusts.
Unity.
Vulgar Economy.
Watson on the Gridiron.
What Means This Strike?
Woman Suffrage....”
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