our civilization if it does not! . . . It must repress the trusts or
stand before the world responsible for our system of government
being changed into a social republic. The arbitrary cutting down of
wages must cease, or socialism will seize another lever to lift
itself into power."--The Chicago New World.

"Scarcely any phase of the election is more sinisterly interesting
than the increase in the socialist vote. Before election we said
that we could not afford to give aid and comfort to the socialists
in any manner. . . It (socialism) must be fought in all its phases,
in its every manifestation."--San Francisco Argonaut.


And far be it from me to deny that socialism is a menace. It is its
purpose to wipe out, root and branch, all capitalistic institutions
of present-day society. It is distinctly revolutionary, and in
scope and depth is vastly more tremendous than any revolution that
has ever occurred in the history of the world. It presents a new
spectacle to the astonished world,--that of an ORGANIZED,
INTERNATIONAL, REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT. In the bourgeois mind a
class struggle is a terrible and hateful thing, and yet that is
precisely what socialism is,--a world-wide class struggle between
the propertyless workers and the propertied masters of workers. It
is the prime preachment of socialism that the struggle is a class
struggle. The working class, in the process of social evolution,
(in the very nature of things), is bound to revolt from the sway of
the capitalist class and to overthrow the capitalist class. This is
the menace of socialism, and in affirming it and in tallying myself
an adherent of it, I accept my own consequent unrespectability.