instantly pointed out that the relation was much more
intimate, and that, even if it were only "neighborly," peace
could not long be preserved if it were continually necessary
for one neighbor to steal the chickens of the other. These
town workers of a district for the most part agricultural were
very sure that the most urgent of all tasks was to raise
industry to the point at which the town would really be able
to supply the village with its needs.


Larin and Radek severally summed up and made final
attacks on each other's positions, after which Radek's
resolution approving the theses of the Central Committee
was passed almost unanimously. Larin's four amendments
received 1, 3, 7 and 1 vote apiece. This result was received
with cheering throughout the theater, and showed the
importance of such Conferences in smoothing the way of
the Dictatorship, since it had been quite obvious when the
discussion began that a very much larger proportion of the
delegates than finally voted for his resolution had been more
or less in sympathy with Larin in his opposition to the
Central Committee.


There followed elections to the Party Conference in
Moscow. Rostopchin, the president, read a list which had
been submitted by the various ouyezds in the Jaroslavl
Government. They were to send to Moscow fifteen
delegates with the right to vote, together with another fifteen
with the right to speak but not to vote. Larin, who had done