But General Vendrikh's idea that by drawing up Spartan regulations be can get an unlimited supply of "enol getic, well-disciplined men with strong sense of duty" (ie. of their duty to the Emperor) ik a delusion. The revolts that have taken place in the Imperial Guards, in the Fleet, and in the principal fortresses of Russia, show that Draconian rules are not enough. General Vendrikh might as well try to care a man of indigestion by beating him on the head with a mallet. In Russia the clever engineers, the competent mechanics, the energetic skilled workmen are all revolutionists; among the lower classes it is only policemen, weak-minded hangers-on of monasteries and suchlike people who are react Rams ("Novoe Vremys principal bureaucratic
23) has told General Vendrikh that his plan will make matters worse instead of better, for his scheme of driving away all the old-fashioned rones will not leave a single loyal man on thi In the present temper of the Russian nation it seems indeed as if'n loyal Rassian cannot get a job' anywhere, except in the police. Mr. Menshikoff, one of the leading publicists in Russia, told in the papers lately how an officer of the Simeonovsky regiment (which in October 1905 pat down the revolt in Moscow, and has been therefore hated ever since by practically all Russians) tried to get a humble position which was vacant in the Imperial Bank, for one of the time-expired men under his command. The applicant was turned away with the remark, " We'll have no Simeonovaky men here.
The problem of the railway is serious, bat @ dozen other Russian problems are equally serious, though they force themselves less on the attention. The only possible cure for all these ills is to give the Russian public some voice in their own affairs.
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