The Dead Weight of Passive Resistance that Defies Change From Our Own Correspondenr.
Chita, Nov. 9.
The psychology of the Russian Slay is that he is perfectly capable of thinking higher in all matters affecting the ordinary mediocre conditions of life, but he is totally unable to realize them. And this explains the reason why he impulsively bursts forth during spasmodic' revolutionary periods with old schemes, perfectly new, however, to Russia; soars high, flutters to earth and finishes by adopting or rather continuing the same old stereotyped customs and systems to which both he and his forefathers have been accustomed for centuries.
The mere changing of the form of government, even though it be the most radical, can never hope to alter the Russian people and so the new: government continues to struggle against and combat with psychological forces, traditions and notions, crystallized in the race by centuries of time and transmitted from every sire to son by his very mother's milk. If the Bolsheviki were to go out of office to-morrow, Russia, without doubt, would be again subjected to another avalanche of old schemes and theories, newly hatched and culled by some wandering Slav brain that has spent several years abroad and knows that the only dumping ground for all such aspirations is his own country—Russia—that land of theories, where the people live to be deceived by them and, strange to say, allow themselves to be duped and knowingly suffer accordingly because the character of the race possesses more pa-thence, tolerance and good nature than all the other essential qualifies put together, which latter are necessary for the working out of its own salvation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.