| Show BREAD AND LIBERTY joseph leiter left er is charged with the responsibility of the bread riots in If trope and if they are the means of turning a few of those countries into republics the young wheat merchant can pose as aa a great liberator chi cago record history is replete with instances in which great events have grown out ot of simple and singular causes last joseph letter leiter of chicago began buying wheat and he persevered in his hie purpose until he had on hand some fifteen million bushels bushela more or less alesc ite he had enough capital tp to be able to hide bule his time for rei results jults and owing largely to ahto purchases and ma eions the market advanced so that the farmers of america have been realizing unusually high prices while the peasantry of europe have been suffering ing from a corresponding difficulty in procuring the staff of life this condition is ia very oppressive in wy italy where rioting has been so extensive teft sive as to threaten to develop into revolution As high as a thousand deaths in a single day have resulted from efforts to maintain law and order the masses in european countries tor for a hundred years have been acquiring advanced ideas of liberty and in italy since the zenith of gari baldis fame and power was passed republican doctrines have been growing the scarcity of bread Is an ex citing cause which is rousing the masses to violent efforts to change existing conditions and the possibility that hunger may drive them to the achievement of a larger measure of liberty than they have heretofore known is not as remote as have seemed many contingencies that in the history of nations at length have become realities the me age is pregnant with grest great events and mighty developments which promise to succeed each other rapidly and the nature and limits ot which no man can precisely foretell but one thing is apparent it is an age in which the goddess of liberty will exercise a wider and a stronger sway away among the nations then than she ever before has done since the misguided cibil children dren of men first consented to be ruled by king craft the growth ot or in human freedom from this day on will i spread until no people shall be found on earth who are not governed by theli own conse consent ht and crushed to powder will be every throne or other obstacle that stands in the path of li bertys progress |
