Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1901-07-14 | Page 7 | Predicts Conflict between Urban and Rural Populations of the World

PREDICTS CONFLICT BETWEEN 1 URBAN 1 NU ND RURAL FIHE WORLD I I London July 13 aJohn John W Book Bookwalter wai waiter ter tel of ot Ohio who sailed for the United States on the line steamer Columbia yesterday spent a afew afew afew few days in London this thi week after a amile 2000 2 mile bicycle bI e trip flip rip through sour them Europe during durin lg which he traversed Italy taly I almost from end to end crossed the Apennines went over the Saint Gothard range raum and wheeled over oer the ite e mountainous parts of Switzerland Mr spent the greater part of or his time living among and I closely studying peasantry and he is thoroughly convinced that a crisis is II I imminent between the urban and aBd rural populations po of tife tite world Inthe In the rise rlee in the price o o grain he sees the begin beginning beginning beginning ning of a struggle of the agricultural element against the concentration on of 0 t capital in ethOs I The movement move he believes will wilt com coin commence commence mence in America AJ where he believes the economic conditions are ue inferior to those of or France Frae especial especially ly Ute the latter Jatter which h he maintains is the soundest in the world worM ow owing owIng owIng ing to the of f wealth be between bethe between tween the agrarian agIa an and metropolitan classes