In an editorial from the July 31, 1906 NYT:

[D]elegate Reid made this contribution to the debate:

The Socialists have never done anything but talk. Socialism has existed as long as Christianity, and it has done nothing. Every time a man is dissatisfied or has a dispute with his wife he becomes a Socialist. The Socialists are abusing everybody except themselves, and according to them every man is a crook or a faker who is not a Socialist.

Little(?) did Mr. Reid realize that within twenty years Socialism and Socialists would act decisively and would most assuredly abuse themselves along with everyone who stood in their way.

The writer goes on to define a Socialist in the following way:

Mr. Reid might have added that every man who loathes work and wants the State to support him has the primary qualification of a Socialist; that all who covet their neighbor's property are on the high road that leads to the temple of Socialism' that whoso is destitute of a backbone and so lacks the self-reliance which that important articulation imparts to its possessors is by predisposition a Socialist; that all who are envious of the accumulations of industry and capacity and are forever railing at capital would find themselves quite at home in a Socialistic meeting place.

Amen, brother.