New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-05
FAMINE PICTURES IN RUSSIA.
A DESPERATE PEOPLE.
From The London Globe


The latest rep jr;s received from the interior OF Rus
sia IRE very Alarming. The August fiosts have com
pe'ey oS in treancsl and m the Extreme north
The rains have aEnilated crops. In NoySorod even
potatoes are deasr % ana . no 11G r can f or
IS or 3s. and colts for sd per head. The straw III
the thatched roofs Of houses is being utilized for fodder
Cattle are dying in numbers or the roadsides. The
Government regulations. made with view to assisting
peasants are producing more harm than good Com
prevails. in consequence of the various
ministers coltraacting orders issued. The authorities are
beginning to refuse material AID to PEASANTS and even
declining 10 supply them with seed corn hence I'M,
mense tracts Of nnd lying In state OF waste, and
fears entertained that scarcity OF corn viii be felt
next year. Again, the cattle plague has broken out In
several places and IN the SocsorVsky district peasants
attack the veterinary surgeons who intended to de
several persons we're wounded. The clergy suffer
ing terrible asGshps and IL some parts they are Join,
Ing the army Of begSars No work Is to be Ind even
on the Voiga. Everything Is ~ n state OF stagnation.
The famine IS expected 10 reach its acme in Novem-
Der. Even the peasants indignant at the at
titude taken up By The Government md the apparent
Indifference OF the Car. who has not yet contributed
TO relieve their wants FI0m the several districts OF
saratoH, samarl ard Vyatka resolutions of the
peasants have been received by the Ministry in which
the peasants declare that il the Car VIII not support
them now In their need they must take the law Into
their hands. They add that they have supported
The Minister hcsates to make representations TO the
Car advise him to relieve the wants OF the people
out Of his private purse. Other kilograms announce
that partial risngs taking place in the Governments
OF Yebaterinoslaw, Mini NovsoFod and Katan. =,
As q rule the peasants the most peaceable dis
posed beings in the world says the ST. Petersburg cor
Respondent of THE Telegraph" Fatalism recOnces
them TO n destiny u which a civilized man would IN
nnitely prefer death. Nothing less than the tana-
lzing sight OF the removal from before their eyes OF
the corn which they rp.ssd in the sweat Of their sun
burned brows Inspire them with the ncedu courag &c
10 ia back upon the laws OF Nature and infringe the
regulations OF Pity for those dear 20 them occa
siOnally induces husband TO murder his wife. or a
mother her children ont Of pain. and they often
prefer suicide itself TO lawlessness and violence II
will never be known how wOebegone subjects OF
The Czar-men women and clildren-have thuS waved
their hands al terrestrial existence and departed for
what they hoped TO BE- better land Suicide has be
come so rife since the famine began that the journals
lave attention to II, but the data are stu In
complete. for the motives are in most cases suppressed
and the fact Itself IN many.
The authorities. continues TIE respondent are
not wholly Idle or Indifferent. for their interests,
ms well Us the lives Of millions Of subjects az stake
symptoms at a stage when The disease might yet have
been prevented cured relieved IL Is too late for
ANYTHING but radical methods and the Russian Govern
mept deals only In half measures. They have dis
tfibu.ed mites where millions wanted. In tle
sookcynnof district 100000 roubles were doed out,
qnicky transformed into eaten up, and forgotten
and the population Is now worse on than before IL
1. as IL the rope had broken and the halfhanged Grim
nni fallen 10 the gIound had been picked up and piled
with cordnls pending the search f19 new rope a
together -, 600 600 rcubes have been allotted by the
Government. and this sim has fallen hhe drop ~ re-
feshng dew In Inferno seventy five millions OF paper
roables have been added 10 the Unknown number al
ready in circulation. and Imperial loan VIII be
foard by the beginning O. october but ii VIII need
enormous snms 10 relieve The misery that actually PR
walls. Much of the ssed-corn supplied by the Govern
meni has been eaten by the hungry tsrs OF the sou
lnd the land Hes allOw. threatening repetition nexs
wear Ct the miseries o. this