The first daily newspaper everywhere marks an epochal advance 
in the life of a party, and a workers’ party in particular*! It is the 
first position from which it can tackle its opponents with the same 
weapons, at least in the field of the press. You have won this 
position; now the second is at stake: suffrage, parliament. And you 
are certain of this too, if you exploit the political situation— 
becoming ever more favourable to you as it is—with the same skill 
as [you have done] in the past fifteen months; if you are 
determined to act at the right time, but, as so often necessary, also 
determined to wait at the right time, that is to say: if you know 
how to let circumstances act on your behalf. 

Good luck and success to the daily Arbeiter-Zeitung! 

London, December 27, 1894 

No. 1, January 1, 1895 paper, checked with the rough 
manuscript 
time 

a In the letter to Victor Adler of December 27, 1894, there is a phrase opening