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Show o ijj Last week tho Logan Ropubllcan J I nrnouncctl that the daily press treat- I; od every thing Truth said "with dig- j nlflcd silence." It It designates tho ii i columns upon columns of matter . nnont tho Agricultural collego sub- j ject, llrst Investigated rightly by i Truth, as "sllenco" all right, but what j In tho world would tho Ropubllcan call '5 n, noiso? i .: ,, It appears that eoiiio one offered on ; j behalf of tho unions of Chicago to 3 I have tho strike called off for tho sum j J of $50,000. Arrangements were being j made to catch tho leaders In tho trap when someone squealed on tho affair and tho bidder mado a hike- out of town. It looks as if thero was some- thing rotten in tho management of tho affair. , . Hurrah for tho Western Hen! She is tho bird of freedom; tho bird of America. Sho has accomplished more than legislatures; more than congress; con-gress; more than tho president; she has busted a big trust for keeps anu cost Armour and a few more a lot of money. Recently tho beef trust decided that it would bo a good thing to corner the egg market. It saw that Instead of eating high priced beef, people were eating low priced eggs. So tho beef trust went into tho ogg business. It es-tub'lhhcd es-tub'lhhcd warehouses for tho recep-Mun recep-Mun "f eggs all along through Iowa, I up in ' visi iirnln and oven down in Vissoini h ' "or in Kansas. Agents began buj ii.K cgg3 and storing them ar.d iht- country dealers in eggs wore bog;. to despair, when lo, the little lit-tle An. ' oan Hon; tlio Leghorn and tho Wyandotte, tho speckled Brahma and tho husky Shanghai, tho Black Spanish and tho Plymouth Rock, ayo, oven tho littlo brown dunghill, began to work. They commenced laying oggs and they kept on laying eggs. Thoy laid eggs, not by dozens but by thousands and hundreds of thousands. Just when the storo houses wore full and the beef trust thought they had things going, came a constant and steady stream of eggs, and then more eggs. Tlio warehouses wouldn't hold 'em. Tho "result was that tho beef trust has decided it cannot do battle with tlio American Hen. It has surrendered sur-rendered to tho hen. It has disposed of its surplus eggs at prices below what it paid for them and is disposing of its egg warehouses. It will not attempt at-tempt to competo with tho Great American Am-erican Hen. Vivo In Hon! Long may sho wnv lay. General LInovitch wired tlio czar that when tho news of Rojestvonsky's defeat reached his army an open revolt re-volt followed. That ho believed the war must end. So says a news agency not connected with the Associated Press, but one with as good a reputation reputa-tion for voracity and accuracy as that possessed by tho Associated. The armies of Russia nro Hot in sympathy with this war; there is none of that lovo of country and government that actuates the ,'iapaneso and tlio soldiers sol-diers of tho czar have to bo driven into tho fight, not led as are other armies In wars affecting their country's coun-try's welfare. "When will Russia stop long enough to read tho history of tlio nations? It would not tnko her rulers long aim If thoy read, with a view to improving conditions (hoy would quickly discern that it is tho peasantry of a country; not Its aristocracy that lights Its battles. bat-tles. Thoy would learn that when tho peasantry is oppressed, or burdened, it no longer lights, because it is not imbued with tho proper spirit. Thoy would learn that in no country where tho priest exorcises control is there the advancement that characterizes countrlo3 where liberty of conscience Is permitted, because God prospers most the nations which permit the citizens cit-izens to worship according to the dic tates, of their own minds. They would learn that the contented farmer, arti-Isan, arti-Isan, mechanic or laborer is tho best soldier In the Held. Ru3sia will have to have a thorough cleaning up before sho becomes great. This old, unpronounceable named procurator-general of tho "holy synod" will havo to bo side-tracked ilrst of all and with him the array of idle, drunken, drunk-en, licentious priests who overrun tho land, and burden It with their presence; pres-ence; who rob the poor and prey upon tho needy. The aristocracy will have to forego their extortions and live differently. dif-ferently. Concessions will have to bo granted that the lands may" bo occupied occu-pied and tilled, and a net work of railroads rail-roads will havo to bo constructed to connect the country with tho cities. Free schools and a free press; the utmost ut-most publicity will have to bo given public affairs and tho constant grafting graft-ing of officialdom will havo to be checked. Why, in tlio recent' battle with Togo it Is shown by reports that not over half' of tho Russian shells exploded on contact. Tho officials threw away chances for victory by grafting on tho purchase of ammunition, ammuni-tion, even as did tho Chinese In their war with Japan. If Ru3sln was endowed with the proper spirit, it would not be long that America would feed tho world. Siberia would give us a hard race In tho markets of Europe in tho matter of wheat and corn. Instead of coming to the United States, tho adoption of a liberal policy would attract tlio peo-plo peo-plo to unpopulated Russian lands, and in tlmo she would become a world power in earnest. It looks as if tho aristocracy would do well to read the world's history. If they do not, and a change Is not made, dynamite and bullets will settle tho hash of tho aforesaid aristocracy forever. Tho peasantry and tho ordinary people appear ap-pear to bo reading the records if the aristocracy arc not. n |