Millions of workers were certainly inwardly enemies of
the Social Democratic Party at the beginning, but their
resistance was overcome in a sometimes idiotic way and
manner, because the parties of the bourgeoisie turned
against all social demands. They foolishly suppressed all
attempts to improve working conditions, safety devices on
machines, abolition of child labor, and protection of the
woman at least during those months when she carries
under her heart the future fellow citizen, thus helping
Social Democracy, which gratefully took up every such
deplorable manifestation to drive the masses into its nets.
Never can our political bourgeoisie repair the damage it
has done. By its resistance to all attempts to remedy
social abuses, it sowed seeds of hatred and condoned the
claims of the arch-enemies of the entire nationality, that
the Social Democratic Party alone represented the interests
of the working classes.