The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-04-02
VAST PROPERTY
OF ROMANoFFS
NOW AT STAKE
Gear and Family Own One
Tenth of All Land in
the World.

serhe autocracy Of Russia" said
Jaskoff Prelooker, the author Oh
MANY revolutionary books and the
last editor of The Anglo Russian
monthly periodical published IN Lon
don lust before the war, us IKE the
head of a family grown too large LOT
personal direction and control. quo
cessiye autocrats, or Cars have at
TEMPTED to preserve personal controI
through members of their family ano
those in sympathy with them until
an immense bureaucracy mas oeeh
evolved which is entirely apart from
the people except as it controls their
life and property in the name OF the
Gar. The autocrat, bebcause or this
bureaucracy, would grant no rights TO
the people which would transfer It's
power to them any more than the
father Of family would SURRENDER
any of his domestic rights to his chill
dren without abdicating as their
head"
In the many ways in which the
Car and his family and their ser
wants of the bureaucracy nave man
aged to maintain the autocracy, the
land question and the imperial reven-
ues are said to offer a striking ex-
ample TOT lmnleoiaee
the revolution.
since tne o,a;aa eA7
Russian hHlpiie Ai"s 70
OBJ square Inlies W "a 9
the lana surfaces VI 'no So 40 ono ~
populatloh u aoou. No'oo LII
1eWer imam 90 ~ . 60, ho+h
Nomlnally the au'oe
land and people out ne ano III. 90
lily out OF the iIhihe!iSe looi
O6S,1o3 acres ac'uaIiS noon oo oo1
ceive the revenue Irohn ooo'0
acres, doooo' +,.+1,
whole land area OF Hussia, on n.,.
that OF the worio. Inc oaiano' "
z61'Iz4'SSo acres 10 US 1n,o r+ -
lows, according 10 she
the Department. VI @Asii0oi'oAo'
latest
acres
Nobility ........f ....... 1o!'ooo'oaS
Merchants .............. $3.50 I'ooo
Peasants ............. oo'd41'Soo
Landed proprletors '''' 20
Other classes .:'....'.' 90 $1,000
ooc
Total ........... 20. - 'ooo
The NOBILITY numper dooul A'70o,
600, the agricultural classes Ipeasan.s
and landed proprletors) lAo'ovV'ooo'
Thus the tller or the SOIL anu LAX
payer possess on the average apou'
one-third of an acre; the RUSSIAN
nobleman who does not pay taxes
possesses on an average some 1zs.
To put the case IN announcer iorhi'
From every 1874 loaves OF preao pro-
duced by the Russian agrlculturlst
the noble land owner alone taxes
away some 1888 loaVes< Tor hlmselI'
leaving one loaf for the producer
from which the latter mas yet 10 de-
vote part to satisfy the state or au-
tocratlc tax collector
In many instances asioe from the
tax, there is an autocra'ic perqulslte
in kind; as, LOT example III the trap
ping or saples. ABOUT every one III
ten is jet black SABLE. Inese from
time immemorlal nave peen the prop
erty of the Romanorr family ana may
be worn In RUSSIA py no one else I'M
der severe penalty. Otner penaltles
are attached to attempts to export the
black pelts.
Concerning the autocratlc power OF
the Car and how 1T may be used In
dependently or any legislative 1unc-
lions or the Councll OF the empire,
or Duma, M. Prelooker has cited the
following instances:
An actlon was brougnt against
Princess Imeretinsky by her late hus-
bands heirs. The Princess privately
petitioned his Majesty to intervene on
her behalf. and he ordered the plain