Eureka Reporter | 1906-08-10 | Page 4 | Cry for Land and Liberty

cry for land and liberty it Is stated that the estimate of the money needed by the hesslan govern ment for aid to the famine stricken provinces would amount to nearly 40 this year the peasants are starving partly in consequence 0 lack of land to cultivate partly because 0 specially bad crops this year mean while the rent ot land Is steadily ris ing according to the latest report ot the peasants bank the average rend i per de rose in 12 years from 39 rubles to rubles no wonder that the cry ot the peasants Is for land and liberty and the only reasonably fertile land remaining Is that 0 vate owners the public domain beina j mostly swampy or forest land