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on the line St. Petersburg-Åbo-Helsingfors was
permitted in Swedish. As neither the Russian
Telegraph Direction nor the Finnish Senate would incur
new expenses, a private company proposed to take
over the telegraph, but as this proposition was not
approved, the Emperor Alexander finally allowed the
establishment of a line to Torneå on condition that the
towns contributed to the expense. The demand of the
Diet in 1863 for a public or private telegraph system
for Finland was rejected, but was the occasion of a
decrease in the tariff. Progress came later from
participation in the general European telegraph
conferences, and cables to Sweden have been laid by the
Great Northern Telegraph Company. In 1899 there
were 4900 kilometres of lines, and in 1898 about
2 million telegrams passed over them, of which,
however, less than 400,000 were inland messages, and less
than 200,000 came from other countries to Finland,
whilst about 1½ million passed the lines en route to
other countries. The telegraph tariff is in several
respects too high, and in the whole country there are
only sixty-six telegraph offices. Legally, the position of
the Russian telegraph in Finland is about the same as
that of a private company, just as the railway owned by
the Finnish Government on Russian soil has about
the same position in Russia as a Russian private
railway.
Finland has its own telegraph along the railways.
At the end of 1898 there were about 4400 kilometres
with 204 offices.
Possibly it is a consequence of the Russian telegraph
restrictions, or more possibly an expression of
the vigour with which the Finlanders have recently
kept pace with modern progress, that the telephone
has come into use in the most extraordinary manner
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