First of all, if indeed newspapers appeared 'in every locality where any number of workers are collected' with such detailed information on municipal affairs as Svoboda desires, it would, under our Russian conditions, inevitably degenerate into a striving for petty reforms, would lead to a weakening of the consciousness of the importance of an all Russian revolutionary attack upon the tsarist autocracy, and would strengthen those extremely virile shoots of the tendency not uprooted but rather temporarily suppressed which has already become notorious as a result of the famous remark about revolutionaries who talk a great deal about non existent parliaments and too little about existing city councils.