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Contents

PAGE
BIOGRAPHY[1] to [76]
WRITINGS—
Where Daisy Sleeps (Poem)[77]
How I Became a Socialist[79]
Outlook for Socialism in the United States[85]
The American Movement[95]
Unionism and Socialism[119]
Socialism[142]
Reply to John Mitchell[157]
The Federal Government and the Chicago Strike[181]
You Railroad Men[207]
The Growth of Socialism[227]
An Ideal Labor Press[239]
Childhood[243]
The Crimson Standard[245]
Roosevelt’s Labor Letters[247]
Labor Omnia Vincit[253]
Open Letter to President Roosevelt[257]
December 2, 1859[262]
The Martyred Apostles of Labor[263]
Mother Jones[269]
John Brown, History’s Greatest Hero[271]
Martin Irons, Martyr[273]
Thomas McGrady[277]
Looking Backward[283]
Labor Day Greeting[289]
Proclamation to A. R. U.[291]
Flea and Donkey[296]
Eye to Eye[296]
Stopped the Blacklist[297]
Prince and Proletaire[301]
Revolution[305]
Vive la Revolution[307]
Arouse, Ye Slaves[309]
Growth of the Injunction[313]
What’s the Matter with Chicago?[319]
SPEECHES—
Liberty[327]
Prison Labor[345]
The Socialist Party and the Working Class[357]
Craft Unionism[375]
Class Unionism[401]
Revolutionary Unionism[427]
Industrial Unionism[445]
Golden Wedding Anniversary[467]
The Issue[473]
APPRECIATIONS—
Mr. Debs an Artist in Expression[495]
From Woodstock to Boise[495]
Here Comes a Man[498]
Without Guile[499]
Eugene V. Debs as an Orator[499]
Lincoln, 1860—Debs, 1894[501]
Eugene V. Debs, Incarnate Spirit of Revolt[504]
A Companion of Truth[509]
Greater Love Hath No Man[512]
Agitator and Poet[512]
A Love Shared by Lincoln and Debs[512]
A Righteous Cause Must Win[513]
Loves Inter-racial, Pan-human Language[514]
Sincere to the Core[515]

Illustrations

Photogravure of Eugene V. Debs[Frontispiece]
Debs’ Birthplace[13]
Debs’ Present Home[29]
Katherine Metzel Debs[45]
Theodore Debs[61]
Marguerite Marie Debs[77]
Comrades[93]
Debs’ Library[109]
Debs and His Little Girard Comrades[125]
Debs’ Cell at Woodstock[180]
Corridor in Jail at Woodstock[186]
Scene at Woodstock upon the Liberation of Debs[194]
Debs Reception in Chicago After His Liberation[200]
Woodstock Jail[334]
Liberty Enlightening the World[509]