p. 524 | Russia’s Gloomy Future

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 25, 1880

Russia’s Gloomy Future

THE immediate future of Russia is gloomy if the view taken by the St. Petersburg Golos is correct. The crops throughout the country are very generally a failure, and instead of exporting 40,000,000 quarters the Russians will be obliged to import grain from abroad. The government is already giving serious attention to the problem of feeding the peasantry during the coming winter. Thousands of destructive insects defied the efforts to exterminate them and are hidden beneath the snow, so that there is little prospect that the crops will escape them next year. During the past year the deficiency in the revenue has been $20,800,000, and these facts, taken in connection with the political situation, are sufficient cause for general uneasiness and depression.—Christian Union.