Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-05-19 | Page 6 | Prosperous Russia

PROSPEROUS RUSSIA. The Russian government has sent a commercial representative to this country coun-try and a Russian chamber of commerce has been established in New York City. Russians desire to create trade with the United States and to enlist American capital in developing Russian industry. German capital is no longer available and the Russians are glad that it is not, for the Germans, just prior to the war, had completed a commercial conquest , of Russia. In some ways that con-: quest was to the benefit of the conquered, con-quered, but in most ways it was a benefit bene-fit to the conqueror. By controlling the bank directorates the Germans were able to throw great contracts to manufacturers manu-facturers in Germany. The result was evil for Russia, because it set a limit on the development of factories within the czar's domain and this limitation was keenly felt early in the war, when Muscovite ammunition Wcgan to run short. Russia needs money for development, but she wants our money, not the German Ger-man money. The czar's envoy is able to hold out an inviting prospect. He produces evidence to show that the Russian people are prospering as never before, that the poor are not only making mak-ing better wages than before the war, but are saving their money; that more factories are open than in the days of peace, and that the demand for foreign goods breaks ail records. As au aid to trade with America the Russian government has established a new port. It is at Nikolaievsk on the-. Amur river. Between June 15 and the late days of September it is free of ice and can be utilized by shippers onlv curing that period. Nevertheless, it wi'l do rmih to relieve the congestion at Vladivostok, where, in spite of the fact that the harbor is kept open all the year round by ice-breaker?, American Ameri-can goods pile up for munths before they can be placed aboard trains bound for Russia in Europe. Most of the con- gestion, of course, is caused by the war supplies from this country and Canada. After the war that element of congestion conges-tion will not exist and the Russian agent assures us that after the war his country- desires to establish with the Cuited States a permanent trade of colossal co-lossal proportions.