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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...”
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“...170
DANIEL DE LEON THE PILOT.
movement of the staunch ship, for the Pilot had well drilled
his sailors in the manning of the sails.
And when the Aegean Isle was near and some of the
sailors on the ship perceived the beauty of Circes palace, they
swam ashore and, satiated of her charms and food, they be-
came as swine. And their mind gradually adapted itself to
the body.
In vain did Sirens sing. The Pilot stood at the wheel,
keen-eyed, alert-minded, and he grinned because some of the
crew fell victims to their ravishing music and to their blan-
dishments.
He saw rocks and he steered the ship clear of them, and
he made note of them on his chart. And the icebergs he en-
countered did not cause him apprehension or fear, and the
flower of his crew, encouraged by him, did not relinquish
their work.
And Scylla thrust forth her heads. Self-seeking, Ignor-
ance, Slander, Mutiny, Treason, Confusion, and he slew them,
and the whirlpool of anarchic Charybdis did not swallow...”
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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!
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“....
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, revealed by De Leons letter to (August,
1907), 59-61; a signer of Industrial Union Manifesto, II.
107; deserts I. W. W. for Socialist Party, 141-142; brought
to Paterson and Passaic during textile workers strike, 161.
Heslewood, Fred W., I. 93; at Stuttgart Congress, II. 130.
Hickey, T. A., character of, I. 32...”
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