ABSTRACT
At the Unity Convention of the Socialist Party at Indianapolis in 1901 only twenty-five of 124 delegates, i.e., about 20 per cent, were foreign-born. At the last Presidential election this party achieved 403,338 votes,32 to which are to be added perhaps 50,000 votes for the Socialist Labor Party. Thus, in the United States in 1904 there were about as many social-democratic votes cast as in Germany in 1878,33 or as were cast for the Freisinnige Vereinigung and the Anti-Semites together in the last election for the Reichstag. The attitude of the leading trade-unionists to the efforts of the bourgeois social reformers that have been apparent for some years in the United States shows that the former really do want to lead a hard struggle 'for the betterment of the wage earner', but without thereby intending to forsake the capitalist economic system. The very different spirit of the American working class, in comparison with European or at least continental-European workers.
