Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1915 — MAKING UP FOR VODKA EDICT [ARTICLE]

MAKING UP FOR VODKA EDICT

Russian Revenues Nearly Up to Expenses In Spite of Prohibition. Petrograd.—-Next to the war the financial side of life is claiming the attention of the Russian public. In spite of the war, with its loss of customs receipts, and the abolition of the vodka monopoly, which together mean a loss of >400,000,000, the revenues for 1915 are estimated at $1,550,000,000. Ordinary expenses are estimated at $1,540,000,000, extraordinary expenses estimated at $75,000,000, making $1,615,000,000 the total expenses for 1915.