Show CZARS RICHES TO FINANCE THE THEW WAR russian people may seize enormous wealth of their former ruler RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD private fortune of nicholas romanoff estimated qt at not less than 2000 owns 70 per cent of russian land new york nicholas n H deposed czar of russia Is the richest roan man la in the world ills private wealth Is not less than in many quarters here it Is believed it a langs largs part of this will be seized by the russian people to finance the war wealth Is largely invested in foreign bonds and stocks ills american holdings are said to be extensive it is understood that he owns worth of the pennsylvania isyl vanla railroads stocks ills name nama does not appear in the list of that corporations po rations stockholders for obvious reasons instead some nominal owners appese the deposed czar ulso MSO owns about acres of land in russia I 1 most of dussias Rus sias mineral resources are his private property into the czars azars private treasury according to the russian law one third of Rus sias gold and silver output Is annually contributed since the treaty of portsmouth the russian empire has occupied d square miles or one seventh of the land surface of the globe it has a population of about or fewer than twenty five to the square mile owns 70 per cent of land nominally the autocrat owns both land and people but he and his family out of the immense total of acres actually own find and receive the revenue from acres about 70 per cene cent of the whole land area of russia one tenth that of the world the ta balance lance or acres its ia distributed as follows according to the 1910 report of the department of agriculture the latest acres nobility INfer merchants chants peasants landed proprietors other classes total the nobility number about the agricultural classes peasants and landed proprietors thus thu the tiller of the soll soil and the taxpayer possess on the average about one third of aai an acre the russian nobleman who does not pay taxes possesses on an average some to put the case in another form from every I 1 M loaves of bread produced by the russian agriculturist the noble land owner alone takes away some loaves tor for himself leaving one loaf for the producer from which the latter lias has yet to devote a part to satisfy the state or autocratic tax collector income Is enormous nobody knows exactly the amount of the czars azars enormous enor mops income the expenditure of some of it Is traceable to certain public works whose budgets are matters of public record lind and a large part Is known to be absorbed by his family and their dependents dependent who number ab about out and are entirely apart from the noble class which lifts has no romanian Romano iT affiliations the czar had an annual salary of 1 7 besides this enormous revenue he derives yet get another annual income from hla his private estates and mines ines tile the latter being worked by cornin comin mou mon and political convicts according to the AI Al manach hachette the czar enjoys an annual income of OW or W per minute all this is in addition to the income from the romanoff property of acres acres of which are arc at present productive this yields an annual revenue of thir sum goes for the support of the grand dukes and due duchesses besses who number 40 many of whom draw yet other oilier incomes from private sources or from various posts occupied in the army and navy or in the general administration rt the bureaucracy the russian autocracy has beati therefore not only onit a political forin fonn of government but a tremendously ay iy business for or the anto craf lil ilmo ai pelf lf and all his oear void cm r |