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 ative Bank of Moscow, they are in a fair way to suppress private enterprises. This is what they say of the movement in Western Siberia:

"In Western Siberia, and especially within the radius where at present the butter-making is greatly developed, for a long time many factors favourable to the development of the co-operative movement and for its prosperity in the future have been in existence.

"This country, populated by enterprising peasants and owners of vast lands of superb natural pasturages, belongs to the finest cultivated part of Western Siberia; it is there that already existing associations should be utilized in order to favour their development, to ensure their future prosperity, and to deal with long-standing questions raised by the necessities of life.

"Co-operation in Siberia, founded on solid bases, has assumed a very special character. It came into being at a time when the economic organization of the people was about to collapse as a logical consequence of certain economic causes. It seemed like a reaction after the specula-