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THE DAILY PEOPLE 
 
 The Daily People is the first and only daily Socialist news- 
 paper published in the English-speaking world. Founded 
 and maintained by the energy, intelligence, enterprise and 
 sacrifice of the American working class enrolled under the 
 banner of the Socialist Labor Party, whose property and daily 
 official organ it is, the Daily People is at once a monument 
 of American working class devotion to Socialism, as well as 
 the unflinching exponent of its high character and aims. 
 Published for the first time on July i, 1900, the Daily People 
 — much to the chagrin of its numerous enemies, some of 
 whom have attempted to destroy it, others of whom have 
 eagerly circulated every rumor of its alleged demise — now 
 celebrates the fourth anniversary of its influential existence. 
 
 As a Socialist newspaper, recognizing that there are two 
 great classes in society — the capitalist and the working classes 
   — whose conflicting economic interests have precipitated a 
 class struggle that can only be ended by the triumph of the 
 working class via the industrial evolution of trusts and the 
 ownership and operation of land and capital, by and for the 
 people, the Daily People is ever alert to advance the interests 
 of the working class, chronicling its doings, pointing out the 
 pitfalls in its path, and sounding the note of warning against 
 every insiduous doctrine or form of organization detrimental 
 to the accomplishment of its historic mission and final eman- 
 cipation. The Daily People, accordingly, persistently and 
 consistently combats the capitalist class, while simultaneously 
 exposing the alleged labor friends, labor leaders and labor 
 movements that protect the interests of that class. It would 
 require more than the brief space at our disposal to review 
 the honorable record achieved by the Daily People in pursuit 
 
 of this policy. A few recent instances will suffice. 
 
 To the capitalist claims of increased prosperity for the 
 working class, under the system of tru.stification and expan- 
 sion of recent years, the Daily People opposed statistics from 
 official and commercial sources, showing the greater increase 
 of prices over wages, the intensification of labor, resulting in 
 a decreased working age for, and an increased death rate 
 among, the workers ; the increase of strikes, suicides, and 
 the employment of women and child labor — in brief, the 
 Daiy People, true to the interests of the working class, ex- 
 posed the fraudulency of the claims of "prosperity,"' while it 
 urged redoubled action in behalf of Socialism in order to 
 prevent a further growth of the conditions which it fearlessly 
 revealed. 
 
 The Daily People opposed the Civic Federation and its 
 policy of conciliation and arbitration. Knowing that the 
 interests of the capitalist and the working class are irrecon- 
 cilable, the Daily People pronounced the Civic Federation a 
 delusion and a snare, that would only redound to the benefit 
 of the capitalists and the detriment of the workers. The 
 Daily People laid particular emphasis on the support given this 
 institution and its measures by Samuel Gompers, John Mitch- 
 ell, and other so-called labor leaders, whom the late Senator 
 Mark Hanna termed "my trusted labor lieuienan'.s." and un- 
 equivically denounced them as traitors to the working class. 
 Though condemned by many workmen at the time, the dis- 
 astrous (to the working class) results of arbitration, especi- 
 ally in the case of the anthracite miners, have since proven 
 the Daily People's stand to be the right one ; and many who 
 once opposed it now acknowledge its correctness. 
 
THE DAILY PEOPLE-Continxied 
 
 The Daily People, with the siihsidcncc of the Civic Fed- 
 eration, next trained its guns on Parry's Manufacturers' As- 
 sociation, showing that its cry of "free labor" was naught 
 but a cry for labor that was free to be exploited as the manu- 
 facturer's profits demanded. It showed Parry's manufac- 
 turers to be capitalists who were being crushed by the opera- 
 tions of the Hanna-Gompers' Civic Federation, and who were, 
 consequently, fighting trades unionism, not to achieve the 
 freedom of labor, but to save the economic skins of the smal' 
 "independent" manufacturers. 
 
 And in the matter of the Colorado outrages the Daily 
 People alone laid bare the true inwardness of the murderous 
 and unlawful acts of the capitalist class, headed by Governor 
 Pcabody and General Sherman M. Bell, showing them to be 
 inspired by the revengeful fury of the Citizens' Alliance and 
 the mine owners, due to their failure to extirpate the Western 
 Federation of Miners, which insists on the enforcement of a 
 constitutional amendment enabling the legislature to pass an 
 eight-hour law in that State. 
 
 The Daily People not only exposed the coalition between 
 Hanna and Gompers, et. al., but it also exposed the Sam 
 Parks' affiliation with the building trust: the Tobin Boot and 
 Shoe Workers' Union for the benefit of the shoe manufac- 
 turers, and the infamous contracts fastened on the workers 
 in the New York pool breweries by the labor fakirs in control 
 of the local unions. These exposes were condemned at first, 
 but the increased circulation of the Daily People in the build- 
 ing and shoe trades, and the answer of the editor of "The 
 Brauer Zcitung" showed them to be true to the mark and 
 appreciated as such. 
 
 The Daily People, true to its class and its policy, has op- 
 posed the so-called craft struggles, i. e., the war of one trade 
 against another for control and jurisdiction. Tt has pointed 
 out that this is an application of the Machiavellian principle. 
 
 "Divide and conquer," introduced into trades unionism in 
 the interests of the capitalist class. Instead of the craft 
 struggle, the Daily People urges the class .struggle, i. e., trades 
 unionism in the interests of the workers, regardless of craft — 
 the true solidarity of labor. With this end in view, the Daily 
 People has called upon the working class to organize into the 
 Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance, which advocates the 
 waging of the class struggle by combined trades union and 
 working class political action. 
 
 The Daily People, while doing the foregoing .also bestowed 
 its attention on the Union Labor parties, the Economic 
 Leagues, and other so-called workmens' independent political 
 movements, which sprung up in San Francisco, Hartford, and 
 elsewhere. It show'ed that these movements — the results of 
 unendurable local labor conditions — organized on false eco- 
 nomic principles, and generally led by disgruntled labor poli- 
 ticians, were used to run the revolutionary aspirations of 
 Labor into the ground, while supplying the men who led them 
 with lucrative and influential positions. The uses to which 
 the so-called labor movements were put, in the interests 
 of the capitalist class, and the two old parties, have since 
 proven the Daily People to have been in the right regarding 
 them. 
 
 The best work of the Daily People, in this respect, is its 
 expose of the so-called Socialist, alias Social Democratic, 
 party. The Daily People keeps track of this nefarious coali- 
 tion of labor traitors. It has exposed all their political cor- 
 ruption, from their acceptance of old party endorsements, as 
 in the Eichman case, down to the granting of legislation 
 favorable to the interests of the capitalist class by Alderman 
 Wm. Johnson, of Chicago, the most recent of their anti- 
 working class political acts on record. The Daily People's 
 full account of the political doings of this coalition of labor 
 traitors will be found in the leaflet entiled "The Difference," 
 
THE r>A^IL.Y PEOPLE-Continued 
 
 to which the reader is referred. 
 
 The Daily People also ridiculed the "progressive trades 
 union" pretensions of the so-called "Socialist," alias Social 
 Democratic, party, as evinced in its alleged fight for So- 
 cialism at the Boston convention, where Samuel Gompers 
 shook a copy of the Daily People in their faces, saying it 
 was the only able and consistent advocate of Socialism in 
 this country. That the Daily People was right in so doing, 
 the action of the late Chicago convention of this coalition, 
 which sold out to the labor fakirs of the Gompers' type by 
 adopting a resolution slapping the American Labor Union in 
 the face, has amply proven. 
 
 The Daily People, finally, foreshadowed the sell-out of this 
 coalition to the Hearst freaks, as shown in the adoption by 
 the lafe Chicago convention of a truly Hearstian platform. 
 
 To sum up, the Daily People is no respector of persons, 
 ideas or things militating against working class victory in 
 the shop and at the ballot box. Actuated only by a due re- 
 gard for labor's interests, the Daily People strikes fearlessly 
 in their behalf, conscious that right will prevail in the long 
 run, and content, at the same time, to await the vindication 
 
 of its course, which developments invariably bring. 
 
 The references made to it by the capitalist and so-called 
 labor press, and its influence on the conduct of both friend 
 and foe, show that the Daily People never hits in vain. So- 
 cialism is more respected and better understood as a result. 
 
 THE WEEKLY PEOPLE 
 
 The Weekly People is the weekly official organ of the So- 
 cialist Labor Party. Made up of the best features of the Daily 
 People, the policy and the achievements of both are the same. 
 The Weekly People was the predecessor of the Daily People, 
 having been first issued thirteen years prior to it. It was the 
 Weekly People that made the Daily People possible. 
 
 The Weekly People has a world-wide circulation, from 
 Australia to Scotland. Its influence in behalf of revolu- 
 tionary Socialism is pronounced wherever it is read. Its 
 sturdy teachings contributed greatly to the formation of the 
 Socialist Labor Party in Great Britain, while it is also the 
 official organ of the Socialist Labor Party of Canada. 
 
DANIEL DE LEON, EDITOR OF THE DAILY AND WEEKLY PEOPLE. 
 
DANIEL DE LEON 
 
 Editor Daily and Weekly People. 
 
 The enemies of the Socialist Labor Party, particularly 
 those who imagine that they are themselves a part of the 
 Labor Movement, possessing neither sufficient intelligence to 
 perceive the proper attitude which the working class snould 
 assume in the struggle for emancipation nor honesty enough 
 to adopt such attitude had they the brains to see its necessity, 
 cannot understand how any considerable body of workers 
 can maintain so correct a position as that of the Socialist 
 Labor Party without being dominated by some particular 
 individual — "bossed" in fact. Of such, particularly, are the 
 puny-minded labor fakir "leader" of the pure and simple 
 trades unions and those who act as mouthpieces of the 
 political aggregation variously known as the Social Dem- 
 ocratic, alias "Socialist," etc., party. Thus, in the weak- 
 ness of their intellectual vision, when they look at the 
 movement they can only see the personality of the one in 
 whom it must be personified in order that they may see i> 
 at all; when they would aim at the S. L. P. their shafts are 
 directed toward the individual thus made the object of their 
 impotent venom. 
 
 This is why we hear the cry of "De Leonite" and "De 
 LeonisiTi" when the Socialist Labor Party through its press 
 or its speakers makes its enemies squirm under thi lash of 
 the indictments showing them to be traitors to the workint 
 class and the servitors of Capitalism, whether nf high or 
 low degree. 
 
 In view of the above, it will not be amiss to here give a 
 short sketch of the man who, chosen by the S. L. P. as editor 
 of its official organ, through recognition of his fitness to best 
 
 express the sentiments and expound the principles of the 
 Party and direct the wielding of its most powerful educational 
 weapons, the Daily and Weekly People, is more than any 
 other member made the target of those puerile, unavailing, 
 albeit blindly vicious attacks, aimed at the integrity of the 
 Socialist Labor Party and the Socialist Movement, which ui 
 vilifiers fail to see is above the dominition of any one person. 
 
 Daniel De Leon, editor of the Daily and Weekly People, is 
 to-day, through the trust imposed upon him by the Party be- 
 cause of his undoubted ability and integrity, one of the most 
 prominent men in the Socialist Movement. As a writer and 
 lecturer on the principles and theories of Socialism, De Leon 
 is looked upon as second to none, and the various lectures 
 delivered by him and published in book form by the Labor 
 News Company, particularly "What Means This Strike," 
 "Reform or Revolution," "Socialism vs. Anarchism," "Two 
 Pages From Roman History," and recently "The Burning 
 Question of Trades Unionism," are masterpieces of Socialist 
 literature in the English language and effective educators of 
 the working class. His recent series of editorials entitled 
 "Epistles at the Lambertians" are recognized as an effectual 
 silencing of the anti-Socialist contentions of the great reli- 
 gious champion who is reputed to have "knocked out Inger- 
 soll." 
 
 Modest and unassuming, with a manner and countenance 
 as open as that of a boy, De Leon's appearance gives the lie 
 to the claims of his enemies that he is a "boss" among S. L. 
 P. men. When speaking. De Leon presents a striking ap- 
 pearance as he calmly and logically strings together the facts 
 
D^:N^IEL DE LEON-Continued 
 
 of his argument or coolly picks to pieces the statements of 
 an opponent in debate. 
 
 De Leon's career is no less remarkable than his personalitj'. 
 Born in July, 1852, on the island of Curacoa. off the coast of 
 Venezuela, he was early sent to Europe to be educated in a 
 school at Hildesheim, Germany, and later transferred to the 
 famous University of Leyden, from which he graduated in 
 1872, having mastered German, Spanish, Dutch, Latin, 
 F"rench. English and ancient Greek, and made a deep study 
 of History, Philosophy and Mathematics, besides being 
 able to read Italian, Portuguese and modern Greek. Having: 
 decided to strike out for himself in the United States, he 
 shortly after his return to this continent became associate 
 editor of a Spanish paper published in the interest of Cuban 
 liberation, and later secured a position as teacher of Latin, 
 Greek and Mathematics in a school in Westchester, N. Y. 
 
 While in New York, De Leon took the course in Columbia 
 Law School, graduating with honors, being awarded the 
 prizes of international law and of constitutional law, the 
 former by President Woolsey of Yale, the second by William 
 Beach Lawrence of Providence ; and afterwards twice suc- 
 cessfully competing for the post of Lecturer on International 
 Law at Columbia College, which he held for two successive 
 three-year terms. Naturally inclined to rebel again.st condi- 
 tions which he saw were not as they should be, De Leon 
 
 began to interest himself in the reform movements of that 
 time, finally joining hands with the Labor political uprising 
 of 1886, which set up the late Henry George for Mayor in 
 this city. De Leon also interested himself in the Knights of 
 Labor, and in later years was one of the most active among 
 the Socialists who launched the Socialist Trade and Labor 
 Alliance in New York City, when District Assembly 49 be- 
 came District Alliance 49, S. T. & L. A. Needless to say, 
 De Leon's interest in the Labor Movement soon led to a se- 
 verance of his connections with the capitalist professors of 
 Columbia College. His activity in the Henry George move- 
 ment, bringing him in contact with some of the Socialists of 
 that time, led him to study the theories of Karl Marx, and 
 his quick intellect rapidly landed him in the ranks of the 
 Socialist Labor Party, where he soon became recognized as 
 one of its clearest and most uncompromising exponents, and 
 in 1902 was nominated as its candidate for Governor of the 
 State of New York, receiving nearly i6,ooo votes. In 1892 
 De Leon was elected editor of the Weekly People and has 
 ever since been retained in that capacity, being made editor 
 of the Daily People at the time of its founding on July i, 1900. 
 Recently De Leon was made the unanimous choice of the 
 S. L. P. to represent it at the International Congress to be 
 held at Amsterdam, Holland, in August, where he will also 
 bear credentials from the Australian Socialist League. 
 
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ARBETAREN 
 
 "Arbetarcn," the Swedish Weekly of the Socialist Labor 
 Party, was started May i, 1895, Ijy a number of Scandinavian 
 Workingmens' Societies and labor unions in Greater New- 
 York, led by the Scandinavian Section of the S. L. P.. Said 
 organizations organized The Scandinavian Co-operative Pub- 
 lishing Association by issuing shares at $5 and $2, giving the 
 organization thereby created the directing power over the 
 paper. 
 
 The first appearance of "Arbetaren" was as a monthly, 
 half Swedish and half Danish, and in January, i8g6, it was 
 published as a weekly. In August, i8g6, the Danish part of 
 the paper was moved to Chicago and there published under 
 the same name. 
 
 'Ihe Kangaroo Coup of 1899 placed the paper solidly with 
 the S. L. P. Its Danish Ijrothcr organ in Chicago contracted 
 the Kangaroo disease and, shortly afterwards, died. 
 
 The by-laws of the Scandinavian Socialist Publishing As- 
 sociation were revised on July 20, 1902, so as to guard the 
 paper from being infected by anything detrimental to the 
 
 true revolutionary position it holds. 
 
 'J"he position that "Arbetaren" has held and holds— that the 
 Socialist Labor Party is right — rests upon the Party's own 
 sound logic, principles and tactics. Its position is and has been 
 that the working class can not gain anything in its own be 
 half by begging or through the tools of the class that exploits 
 it. "Arbetaren" is, so far as is known, the only Socialist 
 paper — published in a foreign language in America, and not 
 directly owned by the S. L. P. — that has stood .squarely for 
 the S. L. P. And should it be deprived of the revolutionary 
 spirit that thus far has inspired it to live — then, surely, its 
 death is invited. 
 
 The history of the paper has, of course, been one of hard 
 struggle financially, but slow but sure progress has been 
 made. It is now being set up on its own Linotype machine 
 and it will undoubtedly, if as sure progress is made in the 
 future as in the past, limit the work done in behalf of the 
 exploiting class by the Swedish capitalist press of the land. 
 
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SOCIAT^ISTISCHE ARBEITER ZEITUNG 
 
 'l"his 1)ookIct would be incomplete without mention of the readers the best there is in German Socialist literature and, 
 
 "Socialistische Arbeiter Zeitung," the German organ of the at the same time, keeping them in live touch with what is 
 
 Socialist Labor Party. going on in the American Movement, checking and counter- 
 
 This paper was started early in igoo at Cleveland, Ohio, acting the inlluencc of the German Kangaroo press and main- 
 
 and has ever since been published there, its present office laining untlinchingly the position of the S. L. P. 
 
 being located at 193 Champlain street. About a year ago, the paper had its baptism of fire, on 
 
 Originally born of the fight the S. L. P. had to carry on account of which it experienced a serious but only temporary 
 
 against the evil infiuence of the New Yorker Volkszeitung, difficulty. So well did the Party membership recognize the 
 
 which, for many years, had weakened the revolutionary im- value of the paper, that the loss sustained was quickly made 
 
 pulses of the German workingmen in this country, and, finally, up by contributions coming from all over the country, 
 
 when taken to task, went so far as to try and capture the S. The "Socialistische Arbeiter Zeitung" entered in March of 
 
 L. P. for its corrupt purposes, the "Socialistische Arbeiter this year upon its fifth volume, and to judge from the past 
 
 Zeitung" has, in the course of time, developed into an effective to the future, it will henceforth as before render valuable 
 
 means of propaganda in the German language, giving to its services to the cause of working class emancipation. 
 
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