The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-12-10
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Concession OF Russian Railways.

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Russia has accomplished by stroke Of COM
mercial policy. more for her future greatness,
wealth and power, and probably for her pro-
gross in civilization and intellectual develop
ment, than all her conquests since Peter the
Great, And this great benefit is derived from
her rivals and enemies; and the strength which
she gains, she draws from the resources Of her
jealous competitors. To arrest the conquest
of Turkey, the West of Europe rose in arms
against her, and to prevent her future aggran-
disement by such conquest, the whole di
plomacy of Europe is now scheming; and
while her enemies are plotting with red tape
and parchment and bureau formalities, to con-
fine her within her borders, lest she become
too gigantic in strength for their safety, she
slently-with the peaceful and secret agency
of 'fnance-taps the sources Of their strength
and prosperity, and applies it to her own de-
V;lopments; giving more real power-makng
herself ten times more formidable to her neigh
bors-than the possession of all the barren
territory over which the sceptre of the Turk
ever ruled. Fogyism is the same in old Eu-
rope and young America--it keeps it's eyes
only on the past and sees none Of the changes
Of the new era; and Anticipated diplomacy still
thinks the elements of national strength and
power, t. be in standing armies, areas of ter
ritory, and in the numbers of unemployed
and degraded population. With Railways to
bring forth her vast natural resources, and
give her wealth and strength, and then afford
her the means to concentrate her gigantic m l.
itary force upon given points, almost as in
simultaneously as the through that conceves
the mandate, Russian strength will be irresis-
tible in Europe. 1t clothes her ruler with
waat approaches almighty power-before
which Europe may trembIe-for he wills and
It'll is done, while he wills The conquest of
Turkey is paltry purpose for the acquisition
of national influence, compared with the
strength Russia gains by the development of
the buried riches in her own territory, and by
drawing to herself the capital and skill of her
rivals to produce them.
Since the peace, the Russian government
has devised a system of railroads, reticulating
her European territory, and radiating from
her ancient capital, Moscow, to her frontiers
West and South; the construction Of which
she has conceded to foreign capitalists. The
four principal lines will extend 1900 miles,
and will cost, as estimated, 1920, 100000, The
contractors, who embrace the largest bankers
and heaviest capitalists of Europe-stipulate
that this vast capital shall be divided into
shares of 500 each, and shall be issued and
sold in the countries, in the following proper
tions, viz: Russia three eighths of the whole
England and France each three -sixtcenths-
Holland one eighth-and Germany one eighth.
Thus Russia will draw from her neigh bors
$137, 100000, Of their circulating medium, or
their exchangeable capitaI-which is the life
blood of their own trade and business-and
invest it in her own unemployed labor and
her iron now in the bowels of her mountains.
To comprehend the full extent OF the advan-
tages of this polite arrangement, let US con-
Ter how she will stand six years hence
when all the works are to be completed. She
will possess the capital brought into her do
minions and paid out for her labor. She will
have the product of that labor, in the shape
Of railways, worth their cost; her territory
through which they run will be enhanced il
value, dOuble-perhaps ten fold--and her in.
ternal trade and the price of her products will
be increased to an amount which cannot be
estimated All these advantages she provides
for herself by sapping the resources of her en-
emies, and takes from them the substance O
power at home, while they are looking for it;
shadow in Turkey. The French Emperor
has discovered this concealed Russian opera
ton of sapping and mining under the founda
tions Of her rivals prosperity, and he ha.
made an attempt to arrest it in France by
forbding the credit Mobiier to sell or dea
in the stock. The Russian Government
guarantees ~ per cent to the stakeholder
--one ninth Of which is to form a s:nkin;
fund for the purchase Of the road and thi
condition will make the stock current all owe
Europe in spite of the DEGREES of Emperor
and the power of standing armies.
VoTEs OF INrIASA-The aggregate numbe
of votes given at the several Presidential cleo
tons since 1914, are as follows:
In 1874 for Polk and Clay................14 40. Is