'We must put our trust in the Constitutional Democrats.'
'And why in the Cadets? Give me the Democrats.'
'Nay, we must put our trust only in the Czar.' (This came from the Rabbi's wife, who was cheapening fish at the next stall.)
'For shame, Rebbitzin! Put not your trust in Princes.'
The bystanders hushed down the text-quoter—a fuzzy-headed butcher-boy.
'Miserable Monarchists!' he sneered. 'We Jews will have no peace till the Republicans——'
'A Republic without Socialism!' interrupted a girl with a laundry basket. 'What good's that? Wait till the N.S.'s——'
'The D.R.'s are the only——' interrupted a phylactery-pedlar.
'And who but the Labour group promises equal rights to all nationalities?' interrupted a girl in spectacles. 'Trust the Trudowaja——'
'To the devil with the Labour Parties!' said an old-clo' man. 'Look how the Bundists have betrayed us. First they were bone of our bone; now it is they who by their recklessness provoke the pogroms.'