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“....
An Exotic National Committee
To my mind, that tour was the beginning of the change
that was to transform the Socialist Labor Party from the
body it was then, into the body it became later, the two be-
coming more unlike each other as time went on. With the
advent of De Leon, a powerful intellect and a masterful and
commanding personality was brought to bear upon what was
at first a decidedly peculiar situation. Looking backward over
these many years, in the light of all that has happened since,
and in the light of all I myself have learned, I can not today
help thinking that we, the then N. E. C., and the entire Party
for that matter, must have looked rather quaint to a man like
De Leon. Gretsch and I were, sometimes (as the com-
position of the body happened to change), the only
ones on that committee able to speak English. Correspond-
ence in that foreign tongue, unless dealing with simple rou-
tine matters, had to be explained to the rest of the mem-
bers. They were...”
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