The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-12-18

,uA,oes 10 read the reports Of the trials
s tie criminal courts 10 get fnstrucuon
non this point. The number OF mon.
Itrous crimes, robberies, and murders u
slarmingly.
So much for the capital. Now let Us
AXE look at the provinces. Here are
,ome figures: At Ksmychine rye Hour
,old last week at rouble and 40 copecks
about d .O5) q pood (about SO pounds)
and even up to rouble 80 copecks { 81.
sSS. AT Tsaritsin pood Of rye costs !
ronble 20 copecks 60 cents). BLACK
bread ,t the former place cost Iou6le
40 copecks (about Sl.O5) the pood; In In
the country villages it costs rouble ~
conecks (sbout 81 .35) the pood-nearly
"a dear a. in the capital. And what q
difference in the wages OF the poor
peasants and the workingmen OF the
capital. Tho
conclnsion would be that the most fer
tile districts are the most Impoverished;
The Russian Empire has been STACKED
in her abundant granaries. The mar
vests have been terribly bad, and in
home parts OF the country the peasants
nave had no work for . year. What
can they do nowP A family q seven
persons. which Il the average number in
the country parts Of Russia, consumes
s,om 1o(, IN .l5() mounds of rye in year.
That makes from AS to 1856 roub!es, IN
enormous sum for them. And where Is
the money for taxes and clothing 70
come from? Must the peasant die OF
hunger without complaining?
EeB9t this calamity Il not merely Local.
| Tho Messenger Oveiel itself has just pub,
lished figures proving that this state o.
affairs extends st.the present moment e
the Governments OF Samars, hhersoe'
Ekaterinoslay, and to the greater .pos'
ton Of those Of Toural, Saratof, Sim
brisk, Tchernigoi, Tombof. Roursk'
Penza. and Poltova. The same famine
IS reported from several Of the weeterr
(jovernmsuts, Novgorod, Oskof, 6mo
lc0>k, anu Ot. Ot0ASuuA6'
The districts where the harvests have
not been quite 50 bad are unfortunatei!
4 uet very. productive. 4 They ase, hardl!
| Az tosutUvidefof local wSoe. TER
kas Seen 4 surplus this year only ir
Bessarabia, Volhynia, Esthonia. and
few districts Of the center and the west
Evervwhere else the harvests have beel
below the average.
The districts which have suffered
most have been compelled to have re
course to the Government for seed 10
the fields. Samara received o miliio
roubley. Saratof and Simbirsk . millio
J each. and Astrakhan $4,000 rouble'
. kBn allsthat h for the fntnre, while tn
!, EtS4i6le present mux somehow be pr
! yided for.
: Russia has few newspapers or Otht
t publications, yet, nevertheless the mo-
9 alarming reports are circulated IN =
l gard to this fearful and universal di
: fess. Men, women and children 81
S dying Of hunger every day in the 10
0 ernments Of Samara and Saratof. Su
: scription lists have been opened, b
0 who Is able 10 give? The Governme
;-Eis doing its best. 1t As already Civ
4 out ,no1e chan % million, roublss, 81
= advanced four millions in favor OF y
Is provisioning fund-a fund which at 7
!. present moment amounts to only n
,r millions. q sum ridiculOusly small
J. AZ Moscow bread costs six copecks
!. pound, and ten copecks for white bres
e E so Ss sssai :. s:sssslns ::sK ye'
81 The primitive system Of agriculture,
r. cether with the weight OF taxation a
III the results Of the overtaxing OF the
nd layers by that class Of merchant p
IT. prietors known under the name OF kou
is XII, is running large proportion OF
De peasants.