a fact, torture is still applied to prisoners,
and I also know that in Great Britain political
prisoners are treated in the usual inhuman
manner in which all common prisoners are
treated : that is, garbed in a hideous uniform
stamped with the broad arrow, kept in solitary
confinement, forcibly fed if they hungerstrike,
and in every way made to feel how
sordidly mean and miserable their position is.
I call attention to these facts here, because
they apply to every country, and my one
solid conviction gained in conversation with
all sorts of people is that Socialist and Labour
Governments must be prepared at all hazards
to throw over all such methods, once they
come into power.
In my story I do not propose to be an apologist. I do not consider Lenin or his comrades need me or any one else to act as such. In my judgment, no set of men and women responsible for a revolution of the magnitude of the Russian Revolution ever made fewer mistakes or carried their revolution through with less interference with the rights of individuals, or with less terrorism and destruction, than the men in control in Russia. When I speak of the rights of individuals I exclude property rights, for the one object
