Show A Great Russian Enterprise The Russian government proposes to build a railroad to Siberia This has been talked about before but is taking a definite shape It is to traverse both countries and when complete will be 10000 miles long the most extensive railway rail-way in the world What is this for To facilitate the transfer of Nihilists and other suspects and offenders to the regions re-gions where so many unfortunates linger till they perish No It is actually the design to throw the country open for settlement This is really surprising Not that it would be a bad speculation but that a government universally considered to be narrow and averse to the methods of the nineteenth century which favor personal independence should engage in a project likely to bring about such great changes in the internal affairs of the empire as this would effect It is also surprising from the fact that in Europe railways are not built usually to open up a place or a region of country but to connect towns that have been developed de-veloped and to pass through districts that already give assurance of business to the roads In this country the probable settlement of vacant lands over which a railroad would pass in a given direction is one of tho important inducements to its construction as well as the expected traffic from its termini and populated stations The Russian government has taken a leaf out of the American railroad book There is no question that this project pro-ject if carried into eiect vill revolutionize revolution-ize the Siberian country But before many people of other lands will be likely to take advantage of such opportunities as the country may offer for settlement a I great modification will have to be made in its manner of government The espionage es-pionage police rule severe restrictions upon free speech and many things peculiarly pe-culiarly muscovite will have to be changed so that greater liberty may be enjoyed than at present or it is not likely that there will be a great influx of persons who would develop the country and accomplish the object of the enterprise enter-prise It is hinted that when the road is built I a line of steamers will be started in connection I con-nection with it which will run to the Pacific Pa-cific coast of this country That would be of benefit to the states near tho ocean and would bring the United States and the Russian Empire into closer intercourse I inter-course This is a progressive age and it may be that the building of the Russian and Siberian railroad will open up a new era to axegion that is to most people a terra incognita |