The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1874-11-13
KANSAS AND NEBRASKA.

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evil St0rre.
The people of Southwestern Mime
sofa have suffered severely from the
grasshoppers, but their condition is
comfortable compared with that of
Western Kansas and Nebraska. There
drouth and chinch bug were added to the
all-devouring grasshoppers and the set
tiers are left without food for them
selves or their stock. Both these States
made a heroic effort to carry their own
sufferers, but the magnitude of the des-
titution was beyond their capacity and
they are appealing to the whole coun-
try for aid.
We have been opposed to the General
Government furnishing relief where
the States could carry their own suffer-
ers, but the whole frontier from Mime
sofa to Texas is involved in the pres
ent calamity and must have aid from
the outside. The General Government
ought therefore to issue rations or Con-
gress should vote an appropriation for
the purpose. Other Governments do
so under like circumstances. and there
is scarcely a season that the British
Government does not send relief to the
destitute and furnishing in some part
its vast dominions.
A settler writing from Long Island,
Kansas, to the Western Rural. in reply
to a communication says:
We have managed, between fishing
times in the township in which [ live,
to cultivate two thousand five hundred
acres of land, and am sorry to say
that half of it has been abandoned
within the last six weeks and they are
leaving every day. J. w. B. made the
remark that Minnesota and Iowa have
suffered as we'll Kansas. They have
not suffered to the extent that Kansas
and Nebraska have; but Iowa, Mime
sofa and Nebraska could and did help
it, nor will she do it unless the coun-
ties that have suffered will vote bonds
and borrow the money from the State
Treasury at seven and one-lalf per
cent payable in twenty years. That is
the way Kansas helps her needy ones.
If J. W. b. will take a trip out our
way, he will see the effect of the Gov
ernor's card in the numbers of covered
wagons leaving the country, having no
faith in her willingness or ability to
help the needy.
A dispatch from Omaha says that re-
lief must be had or hundreds will starve
before the winter is half over:
OMAHA, Nov. San officer sent from
Fl. Mcpherson, Neb., a few days ago
by Gen. Reed, to visit all the stations
Of the grasshopper districts, reports
that he finds no cases of actual starva-
ton, but much suffering, some of
which has been partially relieved from
various sources. Relief must be given
or hundreds will starve before winter
is half over. Within ten days many
will be without a pound of corn or
flour. The present is but a drop in the
bucket. Unless the government aids
them the alternative is fearful to con-
template.
tFrom the Springfield Republican,
The cry of Kansas is echoed from Ne
braska. The grasshoppers rayaged the
grain and the grass, and the people and
1000 men, women and children desti-
tute of the necessaries of life in the
heart Of the food-growing region of
the country. Children have persisted
already, and the strongest adults are
dying. Gen. Ord, commander of tho
Platte, tells these facts to the Chicago
board of trade, and says that they are
true of all the region of Nebraska So
miles west Of the Missouri. The citi-
Gems of Chicago are taking measures 20
relieve this suffering. The State and
local authorities of Nebraska, like those
of Kansas, seem entirely unequal to the
task.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 9.-Dr. II. H. Mitch
ell and DR.. W. P. Morse, prominent
citizens Of st. Joseph, Mo-, and mem.
bers of the society for the relief of the
Kansas and Nebraska sufferers at that
place, have arrived here in the interests
, OF those States. They bring creden.
tials Of the highest character from
Gov. WoodsOn. Other distinguished
citizens OF the State will commence
their labor of soliciting aid from the
CITIZENS of st: Louis. At a meeting OF
the board OF directors of the Merchants
Exchange this afternoon the gentlemen
were cordially endorsed, and the benev.
client of the city requested to contrib.
: ute in behalf the needy settlers in ou1
neighboring States. Prof. A. b. Smith,
ex-president of the Arkansas VALLEY
Collegiate Institute, will publish q
J statement Of the condition Of the set.
, tiers tomorrow. He says there are full
, ly forty thousand people in Kansas and
Nebraska who are either now or will
+ shortly be in absolute want of the nee
, essaries of life, and he earnestly appeal.
], not only to the citizens of st. Louis
but to the people of the whole county
to send them aid in the shape of pro
visions aud clothing as speedily as posi-
BILE.