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SUANETIA 229 will have set up a general store at Betsho ; the priest at Mujal will keep a ' Gostinitza London,' and the village headman will have a roll of porters and a tarilF for the Tuiber and Zanner Passes. The Suanetians are a mixed race, a tribe of refugees ; they have the qualities as well as the vices of their ancestors, and amongst them there ai"e undoubtedly individuals of capacity, who, now that reciprocal slaughter is forbidden, will turn their wits and energies to some better account. The pacitication of their country without serious hffhting has been one of the successes of the Russian Ad- ministration in the Caucasus. It has been effected chiefly by patience in overlooking petty offences and by the gradual introduction of some control and new ideas. It is hardly, however, a complete success. In the same time a more energetic and wealthier government might have spent much more money, and done much more for the district. Iloada might have been made, mineral resources examined, and perhaps utilised. The defile of the Ingur might have been opened. A district of ten thousand inhabitants would hardly have been left to be administered by a native civilian with ten men, lodged in a row of shal)by w-ooden sheds. But the Caucasian Administration is compelled to do its work cheaply ; ' it aims at making things easy, under certain conditions, to the mountain tribes. Its subordinate officials have less money and less energy to expend, and are more easily influenced by their surroundings than British Civilians. Not infrequently they are members of subject races. So long as they can keep the peace they are apt to let progress shift for itself They avoid, no doubt, some of our mistakes and indiscretions ; but they are less capable as administrators. So long as Great Bi'itain maintains among Orientals her unrivalled reputation for uprightness, justice, and tolerance, she need not fear any contrasts that may be drawn by her subjects when the great Empires meet in Central Asia, ' According to Professor Hahn, however, the force at Betsho costs the Government annually 300,000 roubles.
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SUANETIA 229<br />
will have set up a general store at Betsho ; the priest at Mujal<br />
will keep a '<br />
Gostinitza London,' and the village headman will have<br />
a roll of porters and a tarilF for the Tuiber and Zanner Passes.<br />
The Suanetians are a mixed race, a tribe of refugees ; they have<br />
the qualities as well as the vices of their ancestors, and amongst<br />
them there ai"e undoubtedly individuals of capacity, who, now that<br />
reciprocal slaughter is forbidden, will turn their wits and energies<br />
to some better account. The pacitication of their country without<br />
serious hffhting has been one of the successes of the Russian Ad-<br />
ministration in the Caucasus. It has been effected chiefly by<br />
patience in overlooking petty offences and by the gradual introduction<br />
of some control and new ideas. It is hardly, however,<br />
a complete success. In the same time a more energetic and<br />
wealthier government might have spent much more money, and<br />
done much more for the district. Iloada might have been made,<br />
mineral resources examined, and perhaps utilised. The defile of the<br />
Ingur might have been opened. A district of ten thousand inhabitants<br />
would hardly have been left to be administered by a<br />
native civilian with ten men, lodged in a row of shal)by w-ooden<br />
sheds. But the Caucasian Administration is compelled to do its<br />
work cheaply ;<br />
'<br />
it aims at making things easy, under certain<br />
conditions, to the mountain tribes. Its subordinate officials have<br />
less money and less energy to expend, and are more easily influenced<br />
by their surroundings than British Civilians. Not infrequently they<br />
are members of subject races. So long as they can keep the peace<br />
they are apt to let progress shift for itself They avoid, no doubt,<br />
some of our mistakes and indiscretions ; but they are less capable<br />
as<br />
administrators. So long as Great Bi'itain maintains among Orientals<br />
her unrivalled reputation for uprightness, justice, and tolerance, she<br />
need not fear any contrasts that may be drawn by her subjects when<br />
the great Empires meet in Central Asia,<br />
'<br />
According to Professor Hahn, however, the force at Betsho costs the Government annually<br />
300,000 roubles.