Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-08

which are supplied to them in more or
less finished state by German and Bel
CLAN houses; cutlery, agricultural imple-
ments, pottery and utensils of al kinds
needed for local use. Besides all these are
an immense number'o articles that might
be grouped together as bazaar goods-toys,
pipes, cigarctte-holders, boxes carved and
enamelled, many of great beauty, musical
instruments and carved wooden, bone and
horn objects of almost every kind. Besides
the large amount of these goods required
Tor the internal trade of the country.
many are exported, chiefly to Persia and
the Asatc dominions of Russia, while Of
late years new markets have been found
for many Of them within the Chinese En-
pirc
Millions of Russian peasants are being
taught to look forward to Industrial
rather than to agricultural pursuits as
their chief means of support in the future.
The peasants, who have utilized the long
months of winter in working at some
household trade in their izbas for few
kopecks a day in the time that would
otherwise. have been entirely wasted unite
and build svictelka for their common
use. In few years some sort of ma
chincry is added. the motive power being
supplied by oxen that would otherwise
have remained idle in their stalls for the
six months OF winter; another step, and
division of labor, many articles passing
| through six or seven adjacent villages
| before reaching completion: a few years
more, and purely agricultural district
has developed into one that is mainly in
dustral. In all parts of rural Russia dis
tricts are to be found in which the forma-
ton of this new industrial world may be
studied in all its stages from the most
primitive cottage hand labor to already
| highly developed industries"
In a word, Russian industrals policy
| and Russian foreign policy arc the COM
plemenis of each other. At home. accord
ing to the correspondent of the Times. the
Government controls one hundred million
workers. as intelligent and as industrious
as the average European workman, and
likely to he content. ~ least for many
years, with lower wages and longer hours
1t commands them as absolutely as a gen.
eral commands his soldcry. with time
| and development there are compare lively
untouched mines of coal, iron and Other
/ metals, and projected railways to aid
these industries. With ordinary harvests
tho food-supply sufiiccs, with increasing
variety of vegetable products. The mar
kets of Europe lie to one side and more
| important, the markets of Asia to the
other. To open them to these developing
industries the Government widened and
strengthened Russian influence in Contra
Asia till 1t reaches to the coast of Persia
/ built the Trans-Siberian railway, and now
( is establishing itself in Northern and ir
Central China. And it aims not only to
give Russian trade Il footing among the
millions of East Asia, but to secure 1t II
as undisputed possession as possible of tn,
new markets. Engllshmen and American,
are too ready to look upon Russia as
nation that would hamper their commcrc,
in various markets with "A view to tn,
| future, rather than as one that has al
read developed considerable industries o
its own, the products of which it can sub
stitute forthwith for theirs. They forget
too, that Russian advance. commcrcia
and political, may be slow, IT is also i'm
prcssively resolute and constant.