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Of one thing he felt sure. Reporters were criminally exaggerating the incident, and he feared the effect upon public opinion. "Please do not be too impulsive," he said to an American correspondent.

In the presidential election of 1904, Debs had received over four hundred thousand votes, a quadrupling of his strength since 1900. In early 1905, "Big Bill" Haywood organized the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) with revolutionary programs and a membership drive so successful that Debs was said to have been extremely envious. Members of Daniel DeLeon's Socialist Labor party invaded Wall Street to pass out their "Workers Arise" leaflets. The president raved about the menace, editors published gloomy predictions of the future, and progressive leaders did not mind admitting that pet reforms, besides being moral in themselves, would have the practical effect of easing the pressures from radical reformers.

Mostly university students, these spokesmen of change risked freezing blizzards, attacks by wolves, and the Cossack's sword as they made their way from village to village. Their greatest enemy, they frequently complained, was rural dull-wittedness, but it was not always a peasant's fault if he failed to comprehend the SR message. Most party members believed in a vague, romantic socialism. Making clear their opposition to the evolutionary doctrines of Karl Marx, they claimed that the ideal state was immediately attainable.

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