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crease 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."
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
