The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-08
A GLANCE AT THE WORLD.

An occasional glimpse at the condition of
the world is not amiss. In these busy,
rushing times, when the minds of ordinary
people are occupied with their own per-
sonal affairs they neither have the molina
ZION nor the time to keep posted on current
events as they occur in the various quar-
ters OF the globe. AS the nerves of the
oooy carry to the mind the perceptions of
the senses, Informing it of what is seen,
lett or heard, so the network of telegraph
wires which now connects all nations
underlies all oceans and Joins together all
4anos In instant communication. CONVEYS to
Inc intelligence of the world through the
medium OF the press Information of what
ever takes place. The history of the world
each Gay IS recorded, and is spread out
oelore the people to read. But that daily
history makes SO large volume is read by
SO lew, comparatively, and by them read so
hurrledly, and so much of it so quickly for
sot'en tnat an occasional review is as
enjoyable to them as to those who do not
read the events in the daily dispatches.
! But to our tale.
Perhaps the most heart-rendng and ap-
palllng event IS the actual and threatened
famine in Russia. The district threatened
win this famine is southern Russia, which
used to be regarded as the granary of
Europe. Now, within that same territory.
through the failure OF the crops this last
year, thirty-three millions of people ere in
imminent danger of death by starvation
Only yesterday the dispatches brought the
news from St. Petersburg that the gov
ernor of Mini Novgorod reported that
throughout that province all supplies of
provisions are exhausted, and that the diff.
| nculues attending transportation will rem
der timely aid almost impossible. 1t is
SAID that the Russian government is doing
us best to relieve the districts smitten
win death, but millions will
perish before spring. An ex-
Oh change commenting upon the
appalling situation, says: ''In presence
so colossal calamity it is to be hoped that
London will set the civilized world an ex-
ample OF the sympathy of human brother
hood by raising a substantial relief fund
for the perishing millions of southern Rus
STA. The fund itself will not save the
doomed myrieds. 1t will at best only
snatch few thousands from the grave.
But 1t will be a brotherly thing that will
help to wipe out the bitter memories of evil
times when mistaken policy and unscrupu-
lous intrigue arrayed against each other the
nations whose amity is the Indispensable
condition OF Asiatic peace" In that hu-
name sentiment TIE HERALD heartily
joins, and we say that America 10 less than
England should contribute from her burst
ing granaries to alleviate the distress of
the famine-stricken district.
But famine is not the only calamity with
which Russia is threatened. The same
dispatch which yesterday told of the pro-
eress of the famine in the province of
Mini Novgorod, told of the grave condition
OF the money market in st. Petersburg,
saying that rumors are current affecting
the stability OF ten banking houses hither-
to considered the soundest in the city;
while rouble exchange and government
stock continue to fall steadily and every
thing indicates that crisis is impending.
1t is true that these rumors may be IN
founded, or may exaggerate the difficulty
but they may have substance in them and
they at least contribute to the general psr-
plexity OF the times.