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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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that she be allowed, without special report on each
occasion, to go and come between the city and a
near-by suburb whither her work carried her twice a
week; for the average Russian would then be able
to protect himself against the Jewish competition by
ordinary means; while now his inferior intelligence
makes necessary the brutal methods of protection
which American workmen once used against Chinese
coolies. We would not hear Russian officers con-
gratulating themselves on having duty in the rela-
tively easy-going borders of the Empire, because
there excessive bureaucracy is sheer impossibility.
It is in these border lands, I believe, that Russia
will learn the lesson of ordered individualism which
shall transform and glorify her future. I cannot
forget the most vivacious Russian whom I met *en
route* from Moscow to Tiflis—a young electrical
engineer who emphasised the fact that he was a
*Siberian*, and because of that he insisted that he
could understand America. Nor shall I forget the
jolly station-master at Krasnovodsk, who refused
the fifteen roubles offered out of deference to the
false tradition which makes every Russian a bribe-
taker, while he indicated that he would accept a lot
of French magazines because their outlook was larger
than the native literature. Nor shall I forget the
ladies in the household of the Natchalik—colonel
commanding the Osh District. There were mother
and daughter, and two young friends from Tash-
kent, capital of Turkestan. One of these was a
telegraph operator—orphan, of a good family; all
three were cultured young women, better musicians
than the average well-educated American girl—
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