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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...size. Whereas a network of lines reach the Russian frontier on the German side, there are scarcely any railways at all on the Russian side, except the two main routes at Alexandrovo and Bendzin. No district has suffered more from this neglect than the Provinces of Plock and Lomza, just south of East Prussia, which are, as a result, among the most remote and isolated regions of Europe. The excellent canal system of Poland has also been neglected. The abolition of the Bank of Poland and the attempts, largely successful, to make Polish credit completely dependent on Petrograd, have been a great cause of weakness to Polish industry. Moreover, the great co-operative movement in Prussian Poland, though it has been imitated in the Kingdom, has not been so successful, owing to the backwardness in which the peasant is kept by contact with a less progressive civilization and with the weaker Russian system of education, especially deficient on the technical side. Just as contact and competition with Germans has stimulated and educated the Polish peasant, so the presence of the Russian element--and Russia always sent a very low type of official to Poland--has retarded and demoralized him. Further, the bulk of the retail trade of Russian Poland is in the hands of the Jewish population, which is too large here to be driven out by Polish competition, as it has been in Poznania. Lastly, there has been a large immigration of Germans into Russian Poland, a movement which the Russian Government has not opposed. It is only lately that German workmen have been superseded by Poles in the Lodz area, and the great industry is largely capitalized by Germans, so much so that Prussia would find an easier task in ruling the Kingdom of Poland than she has had in...
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