Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-07-21


. here ia muoh o. cDntcnpt ielt Tor
Ru tla among the western n tiurs, or
tue sc,re o her not beng ~ to tnoJ'
err methods. Lis trir mt in many
feepec,a the pc ple are tacGwnfa D.
clvluzdloH md are iG Grant, nut 1t %
also equally true that gtnstoily the
Ilu an dots not GET cre1i, Tor ihe Oh.
tcrprse aud snlightcume which he
does displny. Thp recent CENSUS o thnt
country, however. Iraw special alto
lion to tha lsct that not only t
the great narlhtrn powsr q iormitublr
competitor to oibaf European natio ne
as military force, hnI tina ku'sil
ac'uahy distances al other Europcnn
Dowere in toe natier Of devc.oping
her far.od p9sseseions, btIng among
the mos. successiul OF tue colonial ma
lions, AMI also surpatsts the remninuei
Of Europe in hex actual increase d.
POPULATION. The one feature Is aided "
the iact Of RlB3ia's pUssesaions
forming ore continuous Territory, anu
tho other by tue remarkable !ecunlity
OF the race. NOvuo Vfemy4, b.
Pstrraburg, Gives ZONE interesting
iauts anu isures OF the late census, as
translated Tor Literiry ID oa;
TIE population Of the Russian empire
Is now l2g, US3 ,jl2, divided as follow
European Russia (hfty provinces or gov
I1pnHAtl Dn-
land zen province J, 0,4i2 800 Caucl,ia
(oievtn gov ornment,), O,i-i,odj. Ihe
ross l. diyiued among inc provinces OF
the so-called steppg region, the lurkss-
ian aud Tram cas plan region, Inc grand
duohy OF Finland, and tho Russian
settlemouts oil BUkhura aud hhiva.
IL j, most insttUc i've 10 compare these
figures with ,noso Of he censu' taken In
ISL under the academlcian, keppcn,
when tho total population was lntie
over ~. OOO, eco, and win the figures "
the ceusu. OF tho contiai STA lstical COM
inlttee of 1865, when the Total was esu-
ma cd at 7l,alG,OOJ. IL thus apprar- that
wuhin The last nifty years the population
liza, doubled, while there Is suDstan ial
evidence that tho increase during the
last twelve years has leou US high AS ~
per cent.
it's also noted that Russian tow ns
have increased in populstion With ~
most equal rapidly to sumo IN IT,
United stAies, rnu faster than thytG
N any OF the European poses
SOM. There are DOW fourteen cities
with over 100000 inhablguts, anu
lhirly-hve with over 5O,UOOplpuau1. .
Mitdls Asia mas shown tne Created
progress IN this regard. In the whole
, untry, 81. Petorsuurs, oil course, hts
the frs, place on tuo lrI, with u p1lu-
Ation OF l,267 600. Next comes N.'-
COW, with population Of 9So. 60,
Warsaw, whicl in tAe days oil PO-
lanG's Independence had only bhou
81, COO fouls, uns now 6!4,752 inhaoil'
ans. o eqda is the tUuttn Town, an
ijs growth IL even more remarkable
1t has 4jA.G 5l inhRbitanls, while &
century ago It was Tut fiehing /
lsge. The Gth oily lnot heard o
very much outside U. Klssi', by tie
wall 10 Il ds, in Plant, {
busy manuiucturing csnter, with
population .of 3l4.7sO. Ia,
census shows that tu-ra a,e Ga
GIG, $50 males ana 6i59i.s females
Inc government employed 10000
officials to take the census, which wa
completed In three months.
a showing the kini made brings
forward very auba,nntial relsons WHY
Russia yields such an t. huuucs II
European ofairs, and why even tht
other great powers combined hesitate
to aulss onize the government OF th'
CIR.