The emancipation DUES would have been a serious burden under any social arrangements, but they have proved so much heavier under the communistic system of Russia than they would have been elsewhere that the system itself is beginning to give way.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
It deprived them, they said, of much of the land they had hitherto enjoyed as a right, and which was necessary for their comfortable subsistence, while it imposed on them for what they got excessive DUES which their holdings would never be able to bear; and so the first Land and Liberty League was founded in 1863. But it was not the peasants, or the peasants' friends-it was the small landed gentry who were the first to feel the effects of the Emancipation Act, and to raise the standard of revolt.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
He may try to let his ground-and in many cases he does-but, as we see, he cannot often get enough rent to meet the DUES.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae