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sian factories, although most of the shops of the Eussian railways are well equipped 

 and well orj^anized establishments. The making of brass apparatus and brass parts of 

 machinery is also greatly increasing in Eussia. 



In closing this review of machine manufacturing in Eussia it would be un- 

 pardonable not to mention that the tariff of 1891 , after having been carefully 

 revised, has been ratified by tiie Emperor, and will still further the development and 

 tend toward the perfection of the manufacturing industry in all its l)ranches. This 

 measure together with the constant solicitude on the development of scientific and 

 technical knowledge shows how much lias already been done to advance tlie produc- 

 tive forces of Eussia in general, and to support machine building in particular, 

 which is now protected by the recently established tariff. There has not been suffi- 

 cient time as yet to feel the influence of the new protective policy, but it undoubt- 

 edly can be expected that the prices and the quality of goods produced in Eussia, ma- 

 chinery in particular, will soon reach a normal state, owing to the development 

 of the production and to the competition duly following it, establishing proper rela- 

 tions between the consumer and the producer. Such was the growth of manufacture 

 and trade in other countries, and following the unchangeable laws of progress, such 

 will be the course of their further development in Eussia. 



