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speak of commerce and navigation. The United
States could make great progress notwithstanding a
bad tariff, because they form a continent which is
largely self-sufficient, and where the wealth of one
part assists the making of wealth in other parts.
Finland would be separated for economic purposes
from the more civilised countries, and bound to the
poverty-stricken, artificially-isolated, and oppressed
Russia. The worst influence is of course exercised
in material, intellectual, and moral respects by the
destruction of order, by illegal decrees, and
unconstitutional acts and procedure. Justice is
necessary for all social and individual life, for labour,
capital, and for life itself. Here is the great question
of the future of the country. The people may suffer
but they will not submit, and it seems impossible that
the proceedings taken by some of the rulers in St.
Petersburg can be continued, and that the Russian
bureaucracy can be allowed to destroy its weaker but
more successful neighbour. We would rather
suppose that the supreme rulers will at last listen to
the demand of law, justice, and wisdom; since it is
evident that nobody, least of all the Russian people,
would gain profit or honour by breaking the law and
oppressing the honest Finnish nation.
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