Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1756-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities external link and the Library of Congress. Learn more
Image provided by: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, Urbana, IL
Newspaper Page Text
rfcyg. nny. :'y'V t(JJ.Ai JMj J'!tIWiWI "Hunger "typhus with -one doctor for 20,000, soul's! " "Wanton taxation that seiz6s one halFof all the land yields! "Why?" , "Because the feasants supportthe army, the bureaucracy? the immense civil service. , ' "Because the czaf will have HIS taxes though the moujiks starve. "Will, but not must, my friend. '"Sa much, at least,- Is proved.' "You may not realize, the 'world may hardly know, how near Russia has come to real revolutions "Only eight years ago'there was a week when no laborer worked, no wheel turned, from Rechangel to Odessa when a hundred million men proved their right to be idle if they chose. The crisis passed, But not into failure. No, for the govern ment learned partially to fear THE PEOPLE. The moujik discovered Lhal to think meant to act together for aTcommon good. Today we are i u-iLng watchful. "This is' the waiting time. Tomor row"the sensitive face grew grav er. "We must prepare1 for tomorrow else Russia will be swept by a terror with which the French revolution may not be compared! -"That is my, reason for teaching the children as you heard 'liberty, equality, fraternity!' " v "It is no longer enough to drill them -to endure and to obey; they must learn, to think! Learn to act with self control' The time is past for marshalling up Russian subjects. 'Today is our day for training citizens to the freedom of a consti tutional state tomorrow!" ANTI-HEARSTMEETING The rapidly-growing anti-Hearst Trade Union League will hold their regular meeting 'at Ruud's Hall, Washtenaw and Wabansia avenues, tomorrow night at & o'clock. - Or o ' ,' "All British coins are legal tender in Canada, - ' SHEPHERD HOME TO COVER MINERS' STRIKE - ' W. G. Shepherd. Wm. G. Shepherd, correspondent of The Day .Book, who has done such notable work in Europe during the past two years, has just returned to America. Immediately upon landing Shep herd started to Colorado to investi gate the great ?oal strike raging about Trinidad, where labor is having one of the fiercest struggles of its existence'. Shepherd's Btory of this dreadful warfare being conducted by 26 Broadwayand allied "Big usiness" is tola in today's Iay fiook. The terribleUragediea of the tented dty, whefre,taenTare fighting for free dom, sometimes amidst a-hail of bul lets from-anarmored automobile that rains death as it rides, in the black of night, through, thepeaceful camp, are set down as they have'happened and are" happening everyday. Read of this latest demand of hu manity for simple justice and hw tbe greed of capitalism is answering it in the'beautifuTstafe Of Colorado;