Show PROBLEMS FACING STRICKEN WORLD shall chaos or reconstruction in europe follow the great world war LAND QUESTION IN RUSSIA naturel delre of peasants to parti CIP elate te in Owner ownership chip of soil sall thy th Y till li Is root of the revolution article by FRANK COMERFORD in talking people bout hussla Ilus sla I 1 we ae of d geo verel that most P kuile ale in an erica erita have only a balut uncertain vae ilea of tin country czar mch inich of 01 the tile of the self procla proclaimed tined au mas monarch of 8 COO square in miles iles one ow sixth of the entire land surface of the turtle the brent Itu slOt empire Is over part of 0 two continents burout an asia it Is I 1 almost en entirely tirel confined t a the cold and tem temperate pirate aront seas cas it on lit tho the north fill and the tile seas of I 1 crit 4 and japan of the tile northern I 1 acidic bound it on the bait t tie initia tea lea the halts alfa ulfa of and I 1 inland linland limit it on the nort northwest hAest two tto sinuous kinei of ian lani I 1 folt separate tt it from selen and norway on the northwest and from i astria and rot mania matila on the tile ast cst on tile south and east eart the frontier has changed frequent ly IY ace according to the expansion on an I 1 con tracel tracton in of the empire un tin ler the pres sure of political exigency and empi ene anci the billack sea spa the principal deni aratin stature on ito tl south of I 1 ir arpon pon 1 gwla on the wet we t side we of flat sei set the south frontier touches fit the dirube for some tiller on the ast pst site of the same seu it zigzags from the tile black illa to to the tile ci ilahi utilizing util liing the ehr trw for or pirt of the dl distance tance IL V tie tl caspian I in Is s lr ir duall a Itu islar sea sell clr lra la may inay be sail sal I 1 to art frt i tie tf e next link in the south 4 rn b in lary of lluc if t empire I 1 I 1 agi aniston on tie it e I 1 a ilusca has haq bluto ISSI beati ci ro hillh ili iella ila lut the toun foun lary fary then m swine malligi away north chlap Turk turkestan estan ant an I 1 file north sll of mongolia golla anil and since it has I 1 the norbit of ot sir 1 rated from it by the aher knaur nur tte total length of the fro atler kinf of f the russian empire ay I 1 y laul Is 2 SO milea miles in europe and nearly 10 ow miles in asia and by sea over miles in I 1 drope and beav between een 1000 and miles in asia asla a frontier of C A 8 0 mlle empire empires vait vast population the population of the deml mi ire ac re cording to the 1015 census as esti eitt mated at IS COO rm according Accord lne to the same ceneus this population was dis tributes tri buted as follows la in european Europe aa ilus has sla 2317 in poland in caucasus 13 joo in siberia in the central asian provinces it finland 3 over 80 per cent of the tile people of ot russia are peasants the land Is their problem leal it means home to then them work life their one dream has been to own the land I 1 land and ownership ie tit their definition of fr freedom don their idea of happl nes the russian peasant hm has been a strander str tt aneer ranger la in his own country the tito man who tills all the soli soil and lives on the land and yet newer own owns an in acre nere of 0 it la Is a it foresh ncr elen el en though hl his 1 forbear forbears may have ben been native to the auntry for or centuria 6 the ati russians Ilus have felt tills they are simple home loang people from the conversation conversations I 1 have had bad ath Ras ot of the peas ant class I 1 believe that they have suf more because they never had a chance to own on their owa own home homes their own on farm than from the denial to tt them of political freedom fre the ian lani question li Is a heart question a hearth question to them crime in land distribution soni 4 idea of the lani ian I 1 crime in ila ela sla Is to tol in the startling figurea w lag ing the actual distribution of arabi arable land forest forests and meadow meadows in luro loiro penn cussia the following ving table Is only one count in the indic nent european rua percent Per ac at arab lund land I 1 atlow lt lOW rj W N rea davs and pastures pc 1 M aa 14 forest oia cultivated Tit WM 21 9 09 U I 1 Z flom OA this laa ian ain 1 in european russia wai walf d dybel at I 1 it mong the biff different areat classes of owners as follows per cent acres ale state 6 and imperial aar am OM 35 U am private boners town s itt basw it unfit for or WILi ar 00 64 I 1 isa W wa oco the con of the peasants peas inte prior to tte tt e revolution revola according to official dwin tu alfr alpean to be AS follows fOI in the 12 central th tit y rye for erow grow on the average aral for only 14 in the year often orten tor for only ISO nna to aw laye days one q jarter of the p people eople have re kled celled a allotment of only 29 acres acre per anale one half of if jitni 1 KM than te the normal alt 1193 3 of the to t acres aar allotment neary ta fal 1 and mala main bein bellat estimated at U 24 trin a I family to 42 acrea the peasants were compelled rent lund land from the landlord landlords at fabulous fabulo ua prices the value of 0 the redemption and land taw taxes often reached to aw per ar cent of the normal value of the allotment not to peak speak of the taxes for the churchea churches roads and local aamir ration chhay levied from froin the tile ma peasants ine v peasant s have demix r into debt ti ticey e ry year the scheme nas as a quicksand the hard harder they worked and struggled the deeper inn debt they fill increasing 11 ar ar hae irlen on t fifth of the inhabit nuts rion their thir houpis 1 acry ear more than list halt f the tile adult biales in some IfOr lets quarters of the won and one third of the omer er ae a e forced to quit their hoines and nander lius cla in fit pearch learch of work mork in III thy tile governments of the tile blace earth the ho state of mat tirs 1 hardly beatr iho liras 1 dIg distinction was anoro ahn lL in it aas a I 1 art ff the chains it handcuffed dis its ller the door of of port unity thi groat mass of tte tie people 10 per cent peasants iea pea kants ant 10 1 ier er sent ent made up tit the nobility 9 0 er cent the als agy ja 93 pr cent the burghers bure liers mil ant Iner chants 01 per cent tho the mill will tar thua thus of the ru aa anians em leat ants the in It ulista consecrated by liw in I 1 vins WB partly abolished in IS IN I 1 the tile ilat ct ony pretended td to liberate the serfs len tinier the belt bet im Vint lords condition conditions continued to be it I 1 arif IP le llou behold secants or de arx adt tits attached to tl it e 0 personal merv IC nt t their nia masters aters were viere re le 11 ii they j ened 1 arted the town proletariat leta riat ane ne peasant bere ere giden al at loann i ts is it of artibee I 1 annd n not tit these c 1 Q n al I 1 lot iner were apt given to the andl vidual 1 the were nere riven given oer to the rural called the tile mtr mir which litch i as ma I 1 IP re resi rei I n a whole tole for if tie e rayment of allotments it uns n a eort sort of ian I 1 tin except that tin the title dad n nut nt t an pass s cea eien to the blira the enor charge against the ian land male niale them tenant serfs tito mir aas as a mortgage ol community the ro dentition alon ins ns not calculated on tto tl alue of the I int but wn biscon con sl lenil us till for the lose logs of tho the toulu arii I 1 ii lory kory lalor falor of the serfs the of tile joe peasant aRant was rec I 1 in ill the act which creten lel led peasants ant systematically cheated of land saw to it 11 at i e allotment allotments did not rive give the ia pa paint taiti the needed nee led pasture lands around thir homes tills craf craftily illy sculpted Si liine ine comp compeller ellel tile peasants t rant pasture land from froin the tile ian lani I 1 indi ind at any price iffie landlords held bold ther up it wan nas only as late is s 1001 that the he landlord una ns fort folden by law lav to in filet corporal punishment on the tile peas a ant fer this law djs a winked at ani ant the practice of treating human klales as brutes treat tired domestic animal animals tits peasant was WIS a chattel and the cheapest farm fixture there were plenty of peasants notwithstanding the barbaric life la in aussin the population continued to grow the pea only participation in government cov emment ili i the assembly called the mir with its quaint cus toms ton it Is of ot imn antiquity the assembly of the mir consisted of 0 all the peasant householders of the village these elected a head man and collector of local taxes it was the nearest russian peal anta tants ever cot got to freedom it wa was the dealing clearing home house tor for the troubles a of sorrow sorrows a touch of local self elt government which gave no rig lits it imply simply provided a means of operating cooperating co la in burd burden bearing corlet Corl lt tote t wt tv n union A woman with a houseful houie ful of babies bs has plenty of soul mate mates without leav ing home children can be very helpful to par ent and friend friends if they their will and olle way Is by refining refusing to how show off their ae before comp company aily |