Amongst the foreigners in Ru: there was a goodly number Americans seeking to do busine fon long term credits, and endeavour= ing to obtain concessions, The Moscow Government was apparently ready to grant concessions, but while at first they appeared attrac there was no limit to th taxation it was sought to impose. Consequently a concession which appeared tempting at first blashy and might even prove to be so on the first year's working. might easily be squeezed out of existed by the application of the same taxes which the government was em= powered to impose on native owned concerns.
The Peasant's Power Actually the person to be reckoned'
8 was the situation in Content to Live onthe land and purchasing less and less. from the town years wei he we d_be eventually better stand the economic dep sion which had to follow the failure of the government's scheme, At the present moment he was patch" ing up his boots as best he could, using wooden ploughs and shovels, though at the same time he was producing plenty of food for him= self and his family.
Railways were tolerabl land certainly not good. Th fants had no idea of their work, a the buffet service was slack, The system gave one the impression that the Bolsheviks were trying best, but were unable to make mul headway for many reasons, not the Toast of which was that they had expert assistance in running these things, and the experts the once had, had been
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