violence with violence. Their hands are strong and they are
unafraid. In Russia, for instance, there is no suffrage. The
government executes the revolutionists. The revolutionists kill the
officers of the government. The revolutionists meet legal murder
with assassination.

Now here arises a particularly significant phase which it would be
well for the rulers to consider. Let me make it concrete. I am a
revolutionist. Yet I am a fairly sane and normal individual. I
speak, and I THINK, of these assassins in Russia as "my comrades."
So do all the comrades in America, and all the 7,000,000 comrades in
the world. Of what worth an organized, international, revolutionary
movement if our comrades are not backed up the world over! The worth
is shown by the fact that we do back up the assassinations by our
comrades in Russia. They are not disciples of Tolstoy, nor are we.
We are revolutionists.

Our comrades in Russia have formed what they call "The Fighting
Organization." This Fighting Organization accused, tried, found
guilty, and condemned to death, one Sipiaguin, Minister of Interior.
On April 2 he was shot and killed in the Maryinsky Palace. Two years
later the Fighting Organization condemned to death and executed
another Minister of Interior, Von Plehve. Having done so, it issued
a document, dated July 29, 1904, setting forth the counts of its
indictment of Von Plehve and its responsibility for the
assassination. Now, and to the point, this document was sent out to
the socialists of the world, and by them was published everywhere in
the magazines and newspapers. The point is, not that the socialists
of the world were unafraid to do it, not that they dared to do it,
but that they did it as a matter of routine, giving publication to