The question of his personal fitness is one to be settled in the routine of administrative detail, and cannot be allowed to conflict with or to complicate the larger question of governmental discrimination for or against him or any other man because he is or is not a member of a union.

This is the only question now before me for decision; and as to this my decision is final." Because of things I have done on behalf of justice to the workingman, I have often been called a Socialist.

Usually I have not taken the trouble even to notice the epithet.

I am not afraid of names, and I am not one of those who fear to do what is right because some one else will confound me with partisans with whose principles I am not in accord.
Moreover, I know that many American Socialists are high-minded and honorable citizens, who in reality are merely radical social reformers.
They are oppressed by the brutalities and industrial injustices which we see everywhere about us.

When I recall how often I have seen Socialists and ardent non-Socialists working side by side for some specific measure of social or industrial reform, and how I have found opposed to them on the side of privilege many shrill reactionaries who insist on calling all reformers Socialists, I refuse to be panic-stricken by having this title mistakenly applied to me.
None the less, without impugning their motives, I do disagree most emphatically with both the fundamental philosophy and the proposed remedies of the Marxian Socialists.