The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-12

that they have received their due share Of
this kind of "providential vlstatlons.
If the restitution is temporary, the need
for relief is immediate and necessary. The
distress and want is not due to the short
comings of the settler, but 1t is due to q
visitation as unexpected as 1t would have
been impossible TO guard against oven If
foreknown. What particular purpose is
concealed in these vlsitations Of Providence
II IS hard to conceive, even II we are bound
to believe 1t TO be wise, but 1t urgently
presses upon us the necessity for charity.
The urgency of this need may be illustrat-
ed by selecting specimen from one or two
localities, each being a type of the whole.
General Brisbin states that zone third OF
the women and children are barefooted
and need clothing" and that they are I'M
able to help themselves because they have
been but two or three years in the state
and, consequently, have nothing ahead. "
Another writer gives the statement of q
resident of Furnas county, who says "the
population of our county is about twenty
five hundred. The district has been settled
two years. Fully eight-tcnths of the crops
this year, were lost by grasshoppcrs. Little
local aid can he given by our people, a:
nearly all are new beginners and poor
Our people do not wish to he put in thu
position of mcndicau,s. Ii they could bor
row food and seed now, in year or TIVE
they could and woald gladly return al
| they get. They would much rather ii
| this han receive aid as an entire charity
| Another says that the women arc nearl,
| out of shoes, undcrgarments, dresses an,
| sufficient covering for the beds
| Ono more instance in detail and we ar
| through. A newspaper correspondent, in
vestigating the subject, called at a cabin b.
| the road side, where he found little girl
| some tcnyears old, in charge Of her brother
and sisters, who in response to inquire
said "My mother and father are out hay
ing for a neIghbor. There are five childre
! of us. / am the oldest. We have it'll
flour in the barrel. Father had Il pig, BIT
he killed it and we ate it all UP long age
Father says, when the flour is out we wi
starve,' but mother says, God will tax
care of u.s. Our neighbor, Mrs Winters
is as badly off as ourselves, and Mr.. Fostc
is worse off. We have no shoes or stocl
ings. We have one dress apiece. Mothc
| hoe ahoo. Eatt,np wi ~,
working to get six dollars to pay Mr.. Au:
tin. We owe him that much and fathe
says it must be paid. We have no suga
tea or coffee, nor anything 10 eat but flou
and we are thankful for that" The del
cacy of the men in not accepting mere cha
ity, and the sublime trust of the mother
light to inspire the more favored part {
the country to inaugurate immediate me,
sures for relief. The Almighty can onl
afford relief through human instrumental
ties, and shall we prove the woman's fat
these appeals? The case is fully know
and shall any who are able hold back fror
| their abundance Shall the widow, ever
withhold her mite? If we respond not |
! such cases then, indeed, are our hearts be
come calous and the fountains of sympatb
dried up. 1t may be true that charity be
| gins at home, but it is too far-reaching
remain or end there. Some of our formC
citizens are in this plague stricken regioi
They cry out to us for help, and shall the
despairing cry be UNDECIDED? We rejoit
that it is not being UNDECIDED. Their az
peal is already meeting with a respon'
from the ladies' One ladies aid society
working with will, as are individual men
bers thereof, to send on clothing, bt
clothes, etc., and shall not others join
the work The ladies will do their pa
towards clothing the body, let those pc
sessed of means contribute literally there
for the purchase of food. For by SO dom
great shall be their reward in the hereafte