V. I. Lenin

Rech {1} is resentful over the fact that in view of the
rumours of a semi-Cadet, semi-bureaucratic ministry, the Left-wing press
has begun to talk of a horse-trading deal between the Cadets and the
camarilla, of a betrayal which is inevitable in any such deals.

“Is it necessary to prove that these assertions are false and
absurd?” writes the indignant Rech .

It appears, Messrs. Cadets, that it is, and even highly, necessary to
do so, because in the same article (“Famine and Politics”) we read:

“This struggle (between the Duma and the present ministry), a slow and hard struggle, has resulted, however, in the question
concerning a responsible cabinet being brought down from the sphere of
abstract considerations to the soil of concrete reality, and in it being
discussed as one of the real possibilities.”

That is very good. But what about the question of dissolving the State
Council, the question of amnesty, the question of universal, etc.,
suffrage? Have all these questions likewise become “real
possibilities” already ? Surely, they have not, have they? After
all, there is so far not even a rumour about them.

That being so, what is one to do? “It is necessary to prove.”

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Notes:
{1}
Rech (Speech)—a daily, the Central Organ of the Cadet Party,
published in St. Petersburg from February 23 (March 8), 1906, under the
editorship of P. N. Milyukov and I. V. Hessen, and with close collaboration
from M. M. Vinaver, P. D. Dolgorukov, P. B. Struve and others. The
newspaper was closed down by the Revolutionary Military Committee of the
Petrograd Soviet on October 26 (November 8), 1917, but continued to appear
until August 1918 under the names of Nasha Rech (Our Speech),
Svobodnaya Rech (Free Speech), Vek (Age), Novaya Rech (New Speech), Nash Vek (This Age).

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