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Messrs. the Cadets continue to innocently "fail to understand." Among them, Mr. Izgoev persists in "failing to understand" perhaps more stubbornly than anyone. In a tone of offended innocence, he is indignant at "Messrs. the Bolsheviks" for their attacks on the Cadets.

"The Party of 'People's Freedom' will not deceive anyone. No one has the right to demand from it more than what is stated in the program and tactics approved by the party congresses. Neither armed uprising nor the overthrow of the monarchy is in this program and tactics. The Bolsheviks must reckon with the party that exists in reality, and it is somewhat strange on their part to be angry at people who tell them the truth and do not wish to act according to their dictates."

Precisely, Mr. Izgoev; we are exactly "reckoning with the party that exists in reality." Do you continue to "fail to understand"? Yet the matter is simple: the program of the "Party of People's Freedom" is quite a decent one for a bourgeois party. We say this, mind you, in all seriousness.

There (in the program, Mr. Izgoev!) is, for example, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and many other fine things. But this did not prevent the Cadets from drafting penal servitude bills against freedom of speech, against freedom of assembly, and against other fine things.

Well, and as for tactics...

That the party congresses highly approved the tactics of "either with the shield or on the shield," "death with glory or death with shame" – that is true. But the tactics of the Cadets, not at congresses but in reality, smell of something else. You are against armed uprising? You have, gentlemen, every right to that, but are you not for an unyielding, irreconcilable opposition, are you not for the transfer of power into the hands of the people under a monarch who reigns but does not rule? Then why do you haggle over ministerial portfolios? That's just it, Mr. Izgoev, we are precisely "reckoning with the party that exists in reality," not on paper. For if you were to struggle to the full extent as prescribed by your program and tactics, "approved by the party congresses," then our conversation with you would be different.

There is much else of interest in Mr. Izgoev's article. But, generally speaking, it is the literary property of Comrade A. L—y. We do not intend to encroach upon it.

*Echo* No. 10, July 2, 1906

Printed according to the text of the newspaper *Echo*