your members in scientific
Socialism?'

"This same adroitly phrased incitement was found in other
correspondence."

This pest-house of treason and lawlessness, the Rand School, Hillquit's
pet university of Socialism, ought to be dug up by the roots. And what
shall we say of such evidence? Why should the Socialist Party of America
hesitate to affiliate with the Third (Moscow) International and approve
its "programs and methods" when Hillquit's illegitimate offspring, the
Rand School, was teaching such "methods" a year before the Bolsheviki
seized Petrograd and the dictatorship? Is Hillquit Lenine's pupil or
Lenine's teacher? Is Hillquit, backer of the Rand School propaganda, the
same gentle Morris Hillquit who as an "expert on Socialism" testified
before the Assembly Judiciary Committee on February 17, 1920:

"The word 'revolution' does not have for us the romantic
significance of barricade fights or other acts of violence that it
has for most of our newspaper writers and school boys." ("Sun and
New York Herald," February 18, 1920.)

Can this be the same Hillquit who earlier in the trial broke out in the
angry threat: "What we say to you, gentlemen: the contemplated act of
this Assembly, if consummated, _will ... loosen the violent
revolution_." ("New York Evening Sun," January 21, 1920.) Did he allude
to some pink tea party?

And perhaps the "school boys" Hillquit referred to are those by his pet
institution poisoned and turned into degenerates in the bud of manhood,
like poor Oscar Edelman, whose valedictory speech on graduating from a
course in the Rand School of Social Science ran thus:

"For us as students, Socialists and Labor Unionists, our work is
laid out. We must help educate the workers of America so that their
slogan, 'a fair day's wage for a fair day's work' be replaced by
the revolutionary slogan, 'abolition of the wage system.' ... In
the great world-struggle which is taking place today, we must take
active part.... The ideals which today inspire Debs and Lenine are
the ideals which inspire us." (Lusk Committee evidence, quoted from
"The National Civic Federation Review," July 30, 1919.)

But of all the sublime performances of Hillquit, that which lays the
brightest crown on his veracity was the answer he gave at Albany on
February 17, 1920, to the long hypothetical question concerning the
attitude of the Socialists should