“Since it came to power, has there been a single order issued by the Government for the purpose of halting anarchy, or has any one attempted to put out the Russian conflagration? “There were other things to do…. “The Government turned its attention to a more immediate problem. It crushed an insurrection (the Kornilov attempt) concerning which every one is now asking, ‘Did it ever exist?” 3. MODERATE SOCIALIST PRESS ON THE BOLSHEVIKI _Dielo Naroda,_ October 28 (Socialist Revolutionary). “The most frightful crime of the Bolsheviki against the Revolution is that they impute exclusively to the bad intentions of the revolutionary Government all the calamities which the masses are so cruelly suffering; when as a matter of fact these calamities spring from objective causes. “They make golden promises to the masses, knowing in advance that they can fulfil none of them; they lead the masses on a false trail, deceiving them as to the source of all their troubles…. “The Bolsheviki are the most dangerous enemies of the Revolution….” _Dien,_ October 30 (Menshevik). “Is this really ‘the freedom of the press’? Every day _Novaya Rus_ and _Rabotchi Put_ openly incite to insurrection. Every day these two papers commit in their columns actual crimes. Every day they urge _pogroms_…. Is that ‘the freedom of the press’?… “The Government ought to defend itself and defend us. We have the right to insist that the Government machinery does not remain passive while the threat of bloody riots endangers the lives of its citizens….” 4. “YEDINSTVO” Plekhanov’s paper, _Yedinstvo,_ suspended publication a few weeks after the Bolsheviki seized the power. Contrary to popular report, _Yedinstvo_ was not suppressed by the Soviet Government; an announcement in the last number admitted that it was unable to continue _because there were too few subscribers_…. 5. WERE THE BOLSHEVIKI CONSPIRATORS? The French newspaper _Entente_ of Petrograd, on November 15th, published an article of which the following is a part: “The Government of Kerensky discusses and hesitates. The Government of Lenin and Trotzky attacks and acts. “This last is called a Government of Conspirators, but that is wrong. Government of usurpers, yes, like all revolutionary Governments which triumph over their adversaries. Conspirators—no! “No! They did not conspire. On the contrary, openly, audaciously, without mincing words, without dissimulating their intentions, they multiplied their agitation, intensified their propaganda in the factories, the barracks, at the Front, in the country, everywhere, even fixing in advance the date of their taking up arms, the date of their seizure of the power…. “_They_—conspirators? Never….” 6. APPEAL AGAINST INSURRECTION _From the Central Army Committee_