prepare and direct endless troubles.

The motives of this policy on the part of the reactionaries are
clear. It is the direct road to a counter-revolution. The
troubles, the insurrections, and shocking disorders which follow
provoke disgust at the Revolution, while the military defeats
prepare the ground for an intervention of the old friend of the
Russian Black Hundreds, William II, the counter-revolutionaries
work systematically for the defeat of the Russian armies,
sometimes openly, cynically.

Thus in their press and proclamations they go so far as to throw
the whole responsibility for the war and for the obstacles placed
in the way of a peace with Germany on the Jews. It is these
"diabolical Jews," they say, who prevent the conclusion of peace
and insist on the continuation of the war, because they desire to
ruin Russia. Proclamations in this sense have been found, together
with a voluminous anti-Semitic literature, in the offices of the
party of Lenine Bolsheviki (Maximalists), and particularly at the
headquarters of the extreme revolutionaries, Chateau
Knheshinskaja. Salutations. BLANK.

That the leaders of the Bolsheviki, particularly Lenine and Trotzky, ever
entered into any "agreement" with the Black Hundreds, or took any part in
the anti-Semitic campaign referred to, is highly improbable. Unless and
until it is supported by ample evidence of a competent nature, we shall be
justified in refusing to believe anything of the sort. It is, however,
quite probable that provocateurs worming their way into Lenine's and
Trotzky's good graces tried to use the Bolshevik agitation as a cover for
their own nefarious work. As we have seen already, Lenine had previously
been imposed upon by a notorious secret police agent, Malinovsky. But the
open association of the Bolsheviki with men who played a despicable role
under the old regime is not to be denied. The simple-minded reader of
Bolshevist literature who believes that the Bolshevik government, whatever
its failings, has the merit of being a government by real working-men and
working-women, needs to be enlightened. Not only are Lenine and Trotzky not
of the proletariat themselves, but they have associated with themselves
men whose lives have been spent, not as workers, not even as simple
bourgeoisie, but as servants of the terror-system of the Czar. They have
associated with themselves, too, some of