. Russia then and now, 1892-1917; my mission to Russia during the famine of 1891-1892, with data bearing upon Russia of to-day. -wagon replaced the bottle. Nor isthe money gain all; the peasantry left at home, throughage or infirmity, have redoubled in working , the land the Teutons disparage, proves to bethe only nation in existence capable of decreeing andmaintaining a reform which other nations dontventure to tackle boldly. John H. Snodgrass, Consul General at Moscow,said that according to statistics gathered by areputable newspaper, the consumption of vodkaduring the months of
. Russia then and now, 1892-1917; my mission to Russia during the famine of 1891-1892, with data bearing upon Russia of to-day. -wagon replaced the bottle. Nor isthe money gain all; the peasantry left at home, throughage or infirmity, have redoubled in working , the land the Teutons disparage, proves to bethe only nation in existence capable of decreeing andmaintaining a reform which other nations dontventure to tackle boldly. John H. Snodgrass, Consul General at Moscow,said that according to statistics gathered by areputable newspaper, the consumption of vodkaduring the months of July, August, September, andOctober, 1914, was only a little more than one-tenth what it was during the same months of 1913—before the Czars ukase against intoxicants; andadds: It is observed in the manufacturing concernsthat labour has become much more productivethan before. Formerly at the Moscow mills many workmenwould not appear on Monday, and a number ofthose who did were unfit for duty in consequence oftheir Sunday excesses. This is no longer the case;both the quality and quantity of labour performedhave d W CO o-i-> o 4-3 in O o c (-( *-* _rt CO o O O oS XII What They Saw in Russia After VodKa Left1 By Margaret Wintringer WHILE in London a letter of introduction secured forme an interview with Baron De Hey kind, the RussianConsul General. I found the baron a somewhat sternbut courtly man of distinguished military appearance. I told him how the Czars ukase had been welcomedin the United States, and a look of pride, and evenexaltation, softened the naturally stern is the greatest and grandest national edict sinceMoses gave a moral code to the Jewish people,he declared proudly. :Not since the world beganhas any people taken such an advanced step. OurEmperor has taken the place in the twentieth centurythat your Lincoln held in the nineteenth it is greater to free men from themselves thanfrom bondage to others. No one, except the Sa
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