Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-28
MILITARY LAW IN FINLAND.
Ordinance About Public As
 Semblies to Be Enforced.

semblies to Be Enforced.
 Police to Watch Assemblies and Sup
 press Demonstrations - Telegraph
 Tolls Reduced and an International
 Money Order System Established.
 St Petersburg, Jan 12.-The minis try of war has completed the draft of q law to regulate the military service in Finland in conformity with the sys- lem adopted in the empire at large. It is expected that it will be put in force early in the year. Governor General Hobrikoff has lately issued in structions to the governors of prov 1nces in Finland urging a stricter en- forcement of the ordinance of last July regarding public assemblies. The complaint is made that this ordinance IS evaded under pretext of amusements and entertainments Among the amusemtnts which require permits may be reckoned gatherings in which social, scientific and economic Nues- tions are discussed or where addresses are made. Assemblies which are per mitted must be watched over by the police, whose duty it will be to SUD- press demonstrations. In order to meet the boycott of unpopular officials by house owners and hotel keepers, Governor General Robrikotf has pur- chased for S2oO,0OO d dwelling house in HelSingfors.
 For the purpose of cultivating closer relations with Bulgaria the govern ment has entered into an agreement with Prince Ferdinand's government reducing telegraph tolls from 40 to 2:' centimes a word and Introducing an international money order system sim liar to that in vogue in Russia.
 The minister of railways. Prince Khilkoff, has ordered that women shall be eligible for stationmaSters in minor towns. It is proposed to introduce medical instruction into the currlcula Of semi naries for the education of the priest hood. Russie is said to have an aver age of one physician to 3O,OO0 popula' ton. In Siberia one has to ride as much as 300 versts for a doctor. The priests are not expected, however, 'to do anything more than render first as SiStance, as q rule.
 That Siberia is awake is attested by the request of the municipality of lrk- utsk for permission to issue bonds to the amount of 2,500,OO0 roubles fol drainage and sewerage purposes. Ihe spirits monopoly will be enforced De fore the close of the year in siXty-one provinces and three territories.
 The St Petersburg society for the distribution of useful books at moder' ate prices is contemplating issuing a daily newspaper for the masses.
 A fortnight ago Colonel Hunsicker the London agent of Carnegie's steel
 company, felt absolutely confident o1 the contract for 2.0OO tons Of armo1
 plate. but the letting of this contfac' has just been indefinitely postponed It is related that at the first audience the emperor granted the minister ol marine after he had recovered rom his illness. his majesty remarked thai he observed q good many contracts
 for material for the navy were Delhs
 given to foreign companies. While Rus sian works were idle. The mlniS,ei is said to have answered that theie were many things when lofelsh sheis could produce better and more cheap ly than the Russians, for 1nstahce' ar nor plate'' When the emperor 1 learned that a contract was apout u 1 he awarded to the Carnegie Wofks, he is stated to have ordered that it De | given to the Kolpina iron works, neal | This city. This company is under stood to have made q contract severa wears ago binding it to pay hrnpl i n million roubles, or more than hail
 a million dollars q year. for the ust
 of this process. but that it has no 1 Droduced any armor plate up To uale The cCmpetiton between the Staho l ard Oil company and the Russia nap | Iha interests in the markets or lht
 world. always d live topic here, Is 1 1he subject of q, serious article Ill tht l Journal of Commerce ana lncustiS | tic official organ of the ministry ol finance. The author writes some" h'i 1 automatically
 .It should not be forgotten that tht l compromises which might be coneiGo ] ed between cur industrialists and lheh 1 nuissar1t competitors of the new worlI ! for the partition of the European mar l kct would net have durable cnarac | ter until our industrialists should nav ! ,,laced themselves in a situanoq t' 1 bring their products up to the saih' l degree of perfection that has been a' | tained in America.
 If the powerful Standard syndlcat'
 nas been content hitherto to operat'
 only in q part of Europe. nothing as
 s,lres us it will not resume the agsres
 siye in a future more or less near a
 hand, American oils possess certall
 advantages over ours and as long Il 1 this is true such measures as lowerln' l inc price will avail nothing. On tn
 other hand. by improving the produc
 one will advance toward certain sue
 cess. thanks to the facility of transpol
 tation in tank vessels. l However, to produce perfect oil
 competent employees are necessary. is essential to secure workmen VII l will not regard their employment as temporary makeshift and more or les 1 accidental. Our oil industries VII
 attract q stable population the momen the workman. after finishing his day
 work. can return to home relativel. comfortable, when he will see his 1u l ture and that of his family assure' by insurance funds and his chlldrel
 can attend school