Eureka Reporter | 1904-04-22 | Page 2 | Dire Poverty in Russia

DIRE POVERTY IN RUSSIA economic conditions are frightful in the extreme the bad economic conditions of th russian peasantry may be shown by the statistics of farm animals the russian novelist once wrote a story ot peasant life which he called quarter of a horse and which was intended ta set borth in the guise ot fiction the social and economic status of an agricultural population that had only one to every four families statistics corn piled by the ot the central provinces show that even before the agricultural crisis became as acute aa it 1 now 20 to 30 per cent of the peas ant farmers in tl formerly rich brov arces ot bursk and did not have even a sli gle horse while nearly one third 0 the entire population of had neither horse nor cow in the province of ziazan 32 peasant pat of SO had no horse and 21 had neither horse nor