Romania’s foreign trade has more than tripled…

Romania’s foreign trade has more than tripled between 1870 and 1898, and the new kingdom has nearly fourteen thousand kilometers of roadway and thirty-one hundred kilometers of railroad.

King Carol has equipped a respectable army, and peasant children fill newly constructed rural schoolrooms.

Romania has borrowed heavily to finance development, however, and most of the population continues to live in penury and ignorance.

Mistreatment of the Jewish minority and inequitable land distribution also are persistently troublesome issues.

Jews had begun immigrating into Romania in numbers after the 1829 Treaty of Adrianople, ...