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Show "Rujji'an State in Diuiim, "Tho Ituislan Btate, which Is the most socialistic ono on earth and tha one that tbo world'a money power Is nlmost forever fighting. Is by far tho grcatrit economic unit on tho faco t tho globe." To nlnety-nlno readers THE AUTOC11AT OP THE PAIITY. out of a hundred this statement will doubtless bo startling. Tbo Hussion state draws an annual net profit of 45,-000,000 45,-000,000 rubles from Its forests, mines, and agricultural property. It rccclvoi annually 60,000,000 rubles from Its communities of cx-scrfs for tho uso of land It ceded to or purchased for them It Is building by far tho longest and moit costly railway In tho world, and It owns and worka over 20,000 miles of railways, the net revenuo on which Is. equal to one-seventh of the net revenuo of all the railways In tho United Statu. In 1898 It received 1800,000,000 Into Its cotters, nearly ono-half of which sum wa not prodliMdfcjr, taxation. Its-budget Is greater than (hat of Franco by more than (200,000,000. In 1800, wheu one of tbo banks of London was unable to meet Its obligations, the Ilusilin government bad with It on current account ac-count a balance of so many millions of pounds that when the bank of Eni-land Eni-land camo to tho rescue a request wu Immediately modo to Russia not to dlsposo of her balance- beforo a certain date, since to do so would bo to preci-pltato preci-pltato a financial crisis of tbo utmost ONE OP A THOUSAND SLEEPLESS SENTINELS, gravity. Finally, besides being a capitalist capi-talist and a banker of this magnitude, tho Russian state la also a metallurgist metallur-gist and a spirit merchant. In a word the proud claim Is mado for It that It la tho greatest landowner, tho greatest capitalist, tho greatest constructor of railways and carries on the largest builnesa In the world. |
