The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-30
TENANTS IN RUSSIA.
,ve7eM BASED ON THE BONDAGE
or THE PEASANTS.

,en,cdy Which Is Worse than the
0,.easc 1t is Meant TO Curc-Intercst-
acc rigurcs--rale of Misery and Suffer
,.e--C letting Even.
p-ssia is fast vcrging toward laudlordisn
most pronounced form, and the peo-
=, hsiag divorced wholesale from tAe
(which their fathers titled and by which
themselves can live. Ia another genera
- M tho present rate OF progress lor deg
.,rl. there win be on ono side an az
i....al prolctariat OF G0,0C0, 600 or 10,-
DIDl on tho other class OF koulaks and
.s,ars. holding all the land and vir-
r, oan.ng those by whom it is culti-
j The present system IS based on the
go Of the peasants. k0ulaes (usur-
= ..l landlords lend their money, taking
!. s,ruritv .he hypothccation OF tho bor-
IS future labor, and once in debt the
o,s.,p roasant Is never free. lie becomes
~ bond slave OF his creditor, who e1acls
r,poand OF fcsh with Shyiock Ike icrocity'
GETTING EVEN.
Betthedcbtor, when bis crcdi.ori is land
III. has that simple yet effective way Oh
.~sn-.ng himself. Heworks osh,,le ana 'S
s,nc.ently as he knows how. inc rec
rborer does twice as much and Goes ~ A."
~,at deal better and for this e'li .Ae'9 -
,rcmc,ly except one chat IS worse Ian '-l'
ls,ss IL is meant 10 curc-a well I'i- over
- Tor every bonlagcman. tor mo t'1'-'-
:, who is working or q c,bt DOES ho1
49, Jiso,issal-wan.s it in fact, and tie gov
.--r,ont allows TO ono TO usa tnc roI bat H.
~ Tine koulak or local usurcr is IN belteI
-.s.ion than the biz landlord. A peasant
i.~.lf he works in the field With ms bonds
-,o and can SEQ that they work Bong,
--o-',,or. q man of importance in the vil-
lo~s leis naturally more feared ana Dc''cr
.ryed than the absentee owner.
Il. E. Obvious that under these conditions
.,-....tlrai PROGRESS and scientific farming
sr. cutie out OF tho question. Bondage LABOR
f,chequor shan any othcr-cheaper even than
-,,..,incrv. Besides. who would invest
ro1.- En- labor saving machines when he
r-n lend it out at 200 or 800 per cent. per
ennuns SO il comes TO pass that land
ovpers and usurers grow rich, cereals are c1-
ro-,ed and the peasants die. Hardly q year
ra.sas That parts Of Russia are not devastated
+, local famine. Instances Of ontmopopo-
bo~v often occur, the wretched peasants
him reduced to such straits that III their
DESPERATION they cat human lesh--hterally
orsy on each other.
INTERESTING FIGURES.
ia England when the mortality Of a rural
district exceeds twenty-three per thousand
An Official inquiry is ordered touching the
.auss of 50 abnormal death rate. In Kus-
in. alone of all countries, does the reverse
1btain. In the thirteen central provinces OF
he empire the death rate in the rural dis
riots is sixty-two per thousand as COM
AIRED with q general rate of thirty-six per
thousand As in the same provinces TIC
mean birth rate Is forty-dve per thousand,
& follows that the population Is diminishing
b the rate of seventeen per thousand per
scar. The cause, as openly stated at re-
ent meeting of the Russian Society OF
Surgeons. under the presidency OF DR.. Bot
LII. body servant 20 the emperor, Is de
sciency of bread-in other words, starva-
aon-and this in the most fertile and pro
iuctive part of the country, whore cereals
ere grown largely for export Where the
.arth Yields its increase most beautifully, in
act. there death rcaps his richest harvest.
And for all the misery and suffering
shicb these figures denote for the yearly
destruction OF half a million lives, tho Rus
ian government is primarily ana solely
gsDonsibie Tt is the government that IS
irving the peasants by thousands under the
ucgernaut wheels of koulaks, usucrs and
indlords, for it is to provide the whore
,ithal for paying tie tax gathercr that the
easant borrows money and makes himself
slave. The tax gathcrer has no mercy.
Arrears are ruthlessly oxacted, ovon in times
Z dearth The man who fails 10 pay is
rst fogged and then sold ont. And yet
le peasants, with a faith which would be
bsurd if it were not pathetic, still believe il
lo GOODNESS Of their lord and master To
Lem the car is sul a semi-diyino father,
.l0 would help them If he could, but whose
0ol intentions on their behalf are contn-
ally thwmtel by the malignity and incom-
.teucs Of lis agents.-C Cor. San Francisco
molicle