, 1880-02-01
SILESIAN FAMINE.
5ufferings Of the Inhabitants OF
That Wretched Province.
Hunger, and Cold, and Sickness, and
Nakedness, and Death.

&AtAA~~~~~""S
Indifference of the Government and Of
the Landlords.
soeeide Correspondence Of The casea9o i'so"''e-
BERLIN, Jan. 10-lt is Impossible 1or tae
te1egraphic reports which have reaonea you
of the famine in Upper Silesla to nave con-
viewed the faintest idea Ut the actual sta1e OF
things In that hunger-stlicken province. no
newspaper reports, in fact, are able ntly 10
describe the state Of after misery and despair
Il, those districts OF the province
which have been visiting IN behalf
Of several gentlemen OF humanitarian
proclivities who have contributed
fund, which has been devoted to the
immediate relief of some OF the most appall-
inr cases of destitution and want that ever
came under the observation and stirred the
hearts of phllanthropists. This action was
deemed necessary, because the help which
has been extended to the suffering province
passing through the channels OF municipal
charity-boards and official committees-has
been 50 tardy and wlthal 50 insufficient that
many people have actually persisted from
hunger before help could reach them. While
festivities, patronized by the Prussian Court
aud nobility, were given here for the bene-
fit Of the sufferers from the flood
at Murcia, the children Of their
own soil were permitted to suffer
the gnawing pangs Of hunger, and collins
were preparing for those whom death with
intinit pity had released from the clutches OF
famine. The cries OF despair, uttered again
and again with terrible distinctness, reached
the Capital from Upper Silesia, but no official
notice was taken of them.
ROYALTY AND IT'S GeLD-BEDEcKED FOL-
LOWERS
patronized the ice-carnival arranged on the
Rousseau Insel "under the most gracious pat
ronage" of crowned heads for the sufferers
in Spain, and gave freely into the hands OF
strangers who had undoubtedly been cruelty
struck by fate, but into whose dilapidated
huts no icy winter was creeping with Its IN
-llumerable n1lselies, and who were, more
over, not children Of their own land. At last
the newspapers began to raise their voice in
+'charity beginning at home" became cruel
mockery, and whose plaintiye cry the ears OF
their sovereign ruler and his ministers seemed
not to hear, and private charity vas called
ing and garments for the naked q, ed
ones But even the Committees then
formed were placed under the control
and supervision Of a few titled nobodles,
whose hearts have long since petrifed III the
chilling atmosphere OF. Court-Iife, and the
distribution Of the sums collected was in
trusted 10 the Governor of the Province,
Oberprasident Won 4ydewitz, who, when
the misery was already at its hight, did not
even deem the condition Of his district wor-
xas s ~ co,nnel. n J 1,r puhlic CO on,ion to move
in he matter. recommended work as the
Wortoio1 WI e.i.Ss menne Vim were unable from
1nng suffering and weakness to leave their
1niserah1e ahoiies. even IN hee for bread to
Ecen them from StaryingI So superficially
had Herr Won Seydewitz gone into the ne
G Goyarnorshin demanded fv the emergency.
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