Following upon the information published "some time ago that Bolshevik agents, with a special brand of Bolshevism, had been arrested in the interior, we have to report what looks suspiciously like the work of Bolsheviks locally. Among ricsha coolies and their kind the news is spreading of a wonderful doctrine from Russia which will be a cure for many of their ills. Further, in the teahouses, where the gossip reflects the state of mind of the public almost better than anything else, the same story is occupying a large share of attention.
So far as they have fathomed them, the doings of the Bolsheviks appear to the class of people referred to as nothing more than the taking of wealth from the rich and distributing it among the poor. This doctrine has charmed the masses in every age, and naturally it is received with the utmost thusiasm among the poorest paid classes. They see no chance of Wealth under the present regime, nor does their vision suggest anything immoral or iniquitous in the Bolshevik procedure.
A special reason why the Chinese niore than any others should consider a distribution of wealth as merely, equitable has been offered to us. In the past many of the robber classes have turned out honest merchants. They were merely robbers until they could make enough money to start themselves in business, and once this happy consummation was reached they entirely forsook their old habits. We do not know whether this is a correct assumption, but, if so, it would induce a train of thought among the lower classes which would put all rich men into the category of robbers.
It is understood that the authorities are watching carefully for ex pressions of this Bolshevik senti-Trent.
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