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(1901) [MARC] Author: Jonas Jonsson Stadling Translator: Francis Henry Hill Guillemard - Tema: Russia
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The endeavour to promote commercial traffic over great
distances by means of subsidies from government have
always proved, and must always prove, a failure, as on the
Amur and elsewhere. The Siberians must import their
machines and tools from abroad, and must export their
cereals. How can this be effected without joint foreign
and Siberian enterprise in establishing regular trade in
northern Siberia, for which freedom from duty on goods
imported over the Kara Sea is an absolute necessity? If
we know, as we do, that even to-day the peasants in
European Russia can compete with the railroads in the
transport of goods by horses along the railway lines, and
that peasants in the province of Tula are pondering over
the problem of avoiding all kinds of metal in their carts, and
thus reverting to a species of latter-day Stone Age because
of the enormous prices of iron and steel, is it then possible
for the Siberians to hope that their raw material will find
its way three or four thousand miles from Yeneseisk and
Irkutsk to Russia, and that the necessary machines and
tools, etc. will be brought from Russia to Siberia at prices
accessible to the average Siberian or even to the capitalist?[1]

As for the ice-breaker of Admiral Makaroff, with which
he hoped to establish regular communication over the Kara
Sea to Siberia, the Siberians say,

“Free admission of foreign goods at the months of our
great rivers is the best ice-breaker!”


[1] Condensed from “Sjeverny Morskoi Putj.”

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