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Show Macai'La Y once declared that the history of English liberty is the record of the struggles of the English Eng-lish press for freedom from governmental govern-mental scrutiny. It is thought by scientific ship builders that within the next ten years the run across the Atlantic will be made in a little over four days. Only a few years ago it required re-quired ten tiints that many days. Editor J. II. Wallis, of the Montpelier, Idaho, Post, has been arrested under the anti-lottery law for advertising in his columns and giving away a sewing machine to the paid-up subscriber who should draw the lucky number. It is customary with most newspapers to demand advanced payments for their papers, and when a publisher is arrested for giving something to boot for the usual price of his paper, an injustice is done to the publisher the public is robbed ot a pri ilegc and newspaper liberality is publicly condemned. Some people are wont to belittle the power and inilucnce of the local newspaper for good or evil. It is considered a low average to say five people read each copy of a paper. At this rate The Bugler each week talks to nearly 4.000 people. Kow how many lecturers or preachers could, week in and week out, year after year, draw out that large an audience to hear them, yet our paper does this very thing and has done it for the three years just past. The people will not continue con-tinue to support a paper in which they have no confidence, and when cold type on paper is an object of confidence it wields no insignificant insignifi-cant power for good or evil. Already, 300 Utah people have registcrnd at the Utah World's Fair building, Chicago. That means they have paid the railroads rail-roads $1S,000 transportation money. They will expend at Chicago on an average of $o0 each, which will aggregate $15,000 personal expenditures. expen-ditures. But it is thought that several sev-eral thousand Utonians will visit the Fair hefore its conclusion this fall. So the Fair will probably draw half a million dollars out of our Territory. But then what are dollars compared to education and intellectual fight? and even the most pessemstic must admit the great Columbian Fair a school teacher of tremendous parts and power, wield i ng an intellectual beacon whose searching lights pierce the remotest comers of the globe. The whole world can be seen in Chicago today. |