It is clearly provided that "peasants and Cossack agricultural laborers who employ no help for the purpose of making profits" can vote and be voted for. But no persons "who employ hired labor in order to obtain from it an increase in profits" may vote or be elected to office, _even though the work they do is productive and useful to society._ A peasant who hires no assistance may vote, but if he decides that by employing a boy to help him he will be able to give better attention to certain crops and make more money, even though he pays the boy every penny that the service is worth, judged by any standard whatever, he loses his vote and his civic status because, forsooth, he has gained in his net income as a result of his enterprise. And this is seriously put forward as the basis of government in a nation needing an intense and universal stimulation of its economic production. A militant suffragist friend of mine, whose passion for universal suffrage in America is so great that it leads her to join in all sorts of demonstrations protesting against the failure of the United States Senate to pass the Susan B. Anthony amendment--even leading her to join in the public burning of President Wilson's speeches, a queer emulation of the ancient ecclesiastical bigotry of burning heretical books!--manages to unite to her passion for equal and unrestricted suffrage an equally passionate admiration for the Bolsheviki, arch-enemies of equal and unrestricted suffrage. Her case is not exceptional: it is rather typical of the Bolshevik following in England and in America. Such minds are not governed and directed by rational processes, but by emotional impulses, generally of pathological origin. What the Bolshevik constitution would mean if practically applied to American life to-day can be briefly indicated. The following classes would certainly be entitled to vote and to be elected to office: 1. All wage-earners engaged in the production of goods and utilities regarded by some designated authority as "productive and useful to society." 2. Teachers and educators engaged in the public service. 3. All farmers owning and working their own farms without hired help of any kind. 4. All wage-earners engaged in the public service as employees of the state, subdivisions of the state, or public service corporations-such as postal clerks, street-railway workers, electricians, and so on. 5. Wives and others engaged in keeping the homes of the foregoing, so as to enable them to work. 6. The "soldiers of the army and navy"--whether all officers are included is not clear from the text. Now let us see what classes would be as certainly excluded from the right to vote and to be voted for. 1. Every merchant from the keeper of a corner grocery store to the owner of a great mercantile establishment. 2. Every banker, every commission agent, every broker, every insurance agent, every real-estate dealer. 3. Every farmer who hires help of any kind--even a single "hand."