The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-30
|THE MORNINGS STANDARD GIVES OFFICIAL FIGURES WR NANS MINERAL OUTPUT 1 YEAR 1889

George J. Goschens speech on We'd
nesday last. in the course of which.
after taking an optimistic view of the
political future and with reference to
agreements arrived at with France
and Germany. he said:
"A friendly understanding with Rus
sia is also on the eve of conclusion.
Strong proof of the anxiety of the
Russian government to tap English
capital appeared in the publication in
the London Times of secret memoir
andum recently submitted ITO a commit
tee of Russian ministers by NJ. Dewitt,
the minister of finance, who frankly
states therein that Russia cannot dis
pense With foreign capital, Referring
to Russia's agricultural depression. NJ.
Dewitt pointed out that free trade Eng
land is the only market in which Rus
sia can find relief. England. he said.
is the largest buyer of the agricultural
produce of the world. yet up 20 the
present time Russia has hardly any
footing i'll the English market. NJ. De-
witt adduCed statistics of English re-
ports of cattle. sheep. wheat and -four.
showing that in each case. except that
of sheep, the United States oNerwnelm-
inly headed the imports. while Russia
was at the bottom of the list. He there
fore urged the fostering of Russian
trade with England and then enlarged
upon the imports of England as mar
ket for placing Russian funds" and the
necessity of attracting British capital
lists by the stability of the industrial
regulations of Russia and otherwise in
spring confidence. To-day's announce
ment of the Chinese settlement is one
of the first fruits of NJ. Dewitt's policy
and it will undoubtedly have a bearing
upon the future returns of the two
countries.
The Statist dwells upon the restor-
alton of confidence of the American
people in their own country and the
happy results already visible In trade.
The article concludes:
"All Indications exist that the Amer
lean nation has entered upon a pro
longed period of prosperity
Letters from the famine provinces Of
of Russia tell a narrowing story of dis
tresS. In the province of kazan, the
center of the famine district. the Red
Cross society alone is feeding 132, 900
people. The relief delegate in the prov
inCe of tfa reports that peasants ran
after him and begged for food on their
knees in the snow. The St Petersburg
Skyya NiedmOmosti, in a vivid descrip-
ton of the misery and disease prevalent
in kazan, says:
Crime, mortality and the number of
stillborn infants have increased and
now scurvy and typhus are devouring
the population like confiagration
famed by the winds but this is a case
not of houses and barns, but of human
lives being destroyed"
Lord Charles Beresford came forth
this week as q warm advocate of auto
mobile cars. He attributed the conges-
ton of the streets to the use of horses
and said:
while I was in New York I was sup
piled with motor car which had the
appearance of a cab and the manners
of a kangaroo. but it always got me
safely to my destination
His lordshp also pointed out how
much Great Britain is behind the times
in the use of electricity. He was
amazed. he said. to see how much work
was done by electricity on boay1 Amer
ican warships where England uses
steam.
The decision of the government TO
financially support the Pacific cable
project has given great satisfaction and
is warmly approved by all sections of
the press, in which it is suggested that
cable be laid connecting the Samoan
group of islands.