"No historical authority nowadays doubts that they were paid by the great monopolies to wave the red flag and talk about burning, sacking, and blowing people up, in order, by alarming the timid, to head off any real reforms.

What astonishes me most is that you should have fallen into the trap so unsuspectingly." "What are your grounds for believing that the red flag party was subsidized ?" I inquired.
"Why simply because they must have seen that their course made a thousand enemies of their professed cause to one friend.

Not to suppose that they were hired for the work is to credit them with an inconceivable folly.[1] In the United States, of all countries, no party could intelligently expect to carry its point without first winning over to its ideas a majority of the nation, as the national party eventually did." "The national party!" I exclaimed.

"That must have arisen after my day.
I suppose it was one of the labor parties." "Oh no!" replied the doctor.

"The labor parties, as such, never could have accomplished anything on a large or permanent scale.