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small owners of land may obtain loans easily; the
present institutions for the purpose should be
developed, or new associations formed. The
Hypotheksförening (the Credit Foncier of Finland) does
not lend money on any property of less than 6000
marks in value. Other funds, formed in 1892 and
1896, were consolidated in 1899 into one fund of
550,000 marks, to be used for the purchase of small
building lots or plots of land for homeless persons,
or for the clearance of new lands, woods, moors, or
marshes. The money is lent to parishes, agricultural
societies, or other such institutions, for forty years
at 2 per cent, interest. They may either buy land,
or re-lend the money for this purpose to private
persons, keeping only 1 per cent. profit for
themselves.
A curious episode may be narrated in connection
with this matter. At the beginning of 1899, at the
time of the coup d’état, there appeared suddenly in
Finland a number of the pedlars who come there
sometimes from the Russian province of Archangel,
and are often men of Finnish race speaking the
Finnish language. These pedlars went round the
country promising that all landless persons should
receive land from the Russian government at the
expense of the present proprietors. Such emissaries
are often employed by the so-called Society of Charity
in Moscow, which works really in the interests of
Panslavism, and often in close connection with the
Russian government. Political agitations have been
started by them in several countries, in Bulgaria,
for instance. The lower classes in Finland, who are
as patriotic as the upper, did not receive these
emissaries at all kindly, and demanded that they
should be prosecuted; it being illegal for foreign
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