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among the workers. Henceforward we must count with this tendency. How we are to count with it—of this there can be no two opinions among Social Democrats. We must constantly expose the part played in this movement by the Zubatovs and the Vasilievs and by the gendarmes and the priests and make it clear to the workers what their intentions are. We must also expose the conciliatory "harmonic" undertones which will make themselves heard in the speeches delivered by liberal politicians at the open assemblies of the workers, whether they proceed from an earnest conviction as to the desirability for the peaceful cooperation of the classes, whether they proceed from a desire to get in well with the masters, or are simply the result of sheer clumsiness. We must also warn the workers against the traps often set by the police, who at such open meetings and permitted societies "seek their men with fire," and who through the legal organizations endeavor to plant their agent-provocateurs in the illegal organizations.

But while doing all this, we must not forget that in the long run the legalization of the working class movement will be favorable to us, and not to the Zubatovs. On the contrary, our campaign of exposure will help to separate the tares from the wheat. What the tares are, we have already indicated. By the wheat we mean attracting the attention of increasing numbers of the more backward sections of the workers to social and political questions and to freeing ourselves, the revolutionaries,