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to which that primary and most essential branch of our militant activities has been firmly established. Moreover, the paper must be an all-Russian paper. As long as we are unable to bring united influence to bear on the population and on the government with the aid of the printed word, it is utopian to think that we shall be able unitedly to exert other more complex and difficult, but more effective forms of influence. Our movement, intellectually as well as practically (organizationally), suffers most of all from its dispersion, from the fact that the vast majority of Social Democrats are immersed in local work, which narrows their point of view, limits their activities and affects their conspiratorial skill and training. It is to this dispersedness that we must ascribe the vacillation and hesitation of which I spoke above. The first step towards removing this defect and transforming several local movements into a united national (Russian) movement is the creation of a national newspaper. Finally, it is a political paper we need. Without a political organ, a movement deserving to be called a political movement is impossible in modern Europe. Without such a paper we shall be absolutely unable to fulfill our task, namely, to concentrate all the elements of political unrest and discontent and with them enrich the revolutionary movement of the proletariat. The first step we have already accomplished; we have aroused in the working class a passion for "economic," factory, denunciation. We have now to make the second step: to arouse in every to any