Credit must be given the Soviet Government for its struggle against this social evil and the law passed (and put into practice) of death through shooting has had some real effect. The conscientious communist never takes bribes, but others do and under the existing financial conditions of life in Russia the wonder is that bribery is not more rampant than it is. And so bribery still remains as it used to be in the days of the Tsar, no fault of the Soviet government, but rather its misfortune, because it really means well by the people. In Russia in the days of the Tsar all the important positions in the government were obtained thro "protection" given by members of society. Today, the same system of "protection" exists, only it is based on the bonds that were formed and existed in the days when the "comrades" passed their youth in prison, penal settlements or in the universities and works, in the days when all worked for the common good of the secret political society, which has- now blossomed into the Soviet Government of Russia. Who can blame them, for is it also not a case of life death and with them?"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.