Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-24

Mass Meeting OF Citizens Called for Nest
SUNDAY.

Mass Meeting of Citizens Called for Nsxt
SUNDAY.
TIE DISTRESS THAT ArPEALs TO THE CHARITY 90
THE woELp FoRoIBLT SET FoRru-cITrzKNs
AND RESIDENTS OF WASHINGTON ASKED TO no
THEIR SHARP TOWARD RELIEVING THt eAH.r
TIDE OF MISERY.
As a result Of the movement 10 raise fund
in Washington in behalf OF the famine-stricken
people OF Russia the board Of trade has issued
call for mass meeting OF citizens and resi-
dents of Washington to be held sunday. March
q. at $50 pm, at the First Congregational
Church.
The call is as follows:
Ii is well known throughout the world that
many millions Of the working people 81 Russia.
after several years Of scant harvests and the
well nigh total failure of last years crops. are
in condition of actual starvation. The null
titudes who are perishing not oilers Their
hard labor and frugal lives were regarded ss
extraordinary among nations They bad helped
to make of southern Russia the granary Of
Europe.
The Russian famine relief committee say;
In twenty provinces of Russia, comprising
an area as large as the United States, millions
| of peasants are now living upon the refuse from
nelds, cellars and Old granaries. mixed with
seeds Of weeds and ground bark of trees. he
cattle on which they depended for milk and serv-
ice have been slain and eaten for food. Even the
horses are thus consumed. The fierce cold Of IN
| unusually severe winter has added freezing 60
| the horrors OF famine. The remnants Of stub
| BILE, the matching of stables mixed with turf
| and the scrapings of barn yards afford the only
| means OF warming their novels and cooking
| their miserable pittance Of food. fsmine-fever
and pestllence have added their suffering aud
terrors to this accumulated misery aud the
! poor peasantry of Russia de mand the ~ mpathy
OF the world as il has rarely been demanded IN
| human history"
Rev. Alex. Francis. pastor of the British
American Church at ST. Petersburg. wrote 70
tho Iowa secretary Of the American Rod Cres
| a few DAYS ago:
The darkness deepens. letter from ,Ay
agent m the provinces saws the pea.sre are
dying like fes. am sending Sisters 81 IN, rsty
10 districts where the typhus is raging lad
| where also smallpox has broken out l.. -pl'e
| districts parents are drawing lots 60 determine
which of their children shall share In the relief
| afforded, knowing that those not elected 20
food are elected to death.
When nation Is in such dire extremity e
this who should come TO the Rescue II nos
great and prosperous nation such oursl The
llcalamity which has befallen that nation NAV
overtake any People, however industrious and
frugal.
Our own national and individual abundance
| constitute an obligation, not only under the
divine law, Love thy neighbor as thysof," bot
under the great general law OF humanity. The
daily bread" for which We are taught TO pray,
| 10 not for ourselves alone. Ii Is part of our
stewardship for which We are strictly account
able.
The Nineteenh Century in January said con-
corning tins famine, Every British pound mag
| now save a human life"
What has been done 10 relieve this great tide
OF misery by other nations or by individual
states, or cities, or generous men. does not alb
solve the District of Columbia from its sacred
duty. One dollar each from the IL 900
| employees of the United States governments
residing here and 80 each from our is, 600
business men, with "A few generous contribu-
tions from retired capitalists would freight q
ship with wholesome food products and send it
to the famine stricken provinces OF the nation
in distress, and no one here would feel In, 'oss
while every contributor would be richer for
having helped to alleviate the sum VI human
| misery.
The subtle arguments Of selfish souls. "whss
| is sent will never reach the sufferers" Let ~
| look after the wretched IN our own country"
| &c. are not advanced by those who do give
| tIme energy or money to improve the condi-
! ton of our own poor. The philanthropists u
this country are doing the one aud not leaving
| the other undone
The Indiana. which left Philadelphia Febru-
AIRY IL, has landed at Libau her rich freight in
charge of three eminently Trustworthy citizens
OF Philadelphia, Dr. Biddle and Messrs. Drexel
jr.. and Brandenburg. and the freight trains
decked with American and Russian flags are
moving across the vast empire to the suffering
peasants
The Missouri from New York, March Is. 10 on
it's way in charge of the responsible business
men who aided in securing it's tremendous
cargo. to be distributed by MIR. Edgar and his
feliow-commissioner from Minnesota, Col Nc
Reeve, who sailed the same day on the leu
tonic. a passenger steamer, 20 meet the cargo
on its arrival. part Of its freight il . con-
tribution from the -four and feed dealers q
Washington. DC, VIZ, 81 $50 pounds Of nour,
or about las barrels
The third ship, under the auspices Of the
American he'd Cross, will sail a soon the
cargo especially consigned TO this inferno
tionaI organization can be collected About
two-thirds Of the contributions raised by Iowa
are already IN New York, and the remainder. 10
is hoped, will be on trains upon the road
March e.
American Minister Smith writes March 3
from ST Petersburg to Miss Clara Barton
when the Red Cross agent. DIR. Hubbel CONS
I will render him every service in my power N
fulfllment Of his mission. The distribution q
relief is in charge Of carefully chosen and emil
nently Trustworthy local committees within the
famine section. These committees have been
formed and developed by the British American
church of st. Petersburg largely under the
stimulus Of American contributions. II u nov
recognized here as the best of all agencies -
work. The Representatives Of the Russian eov
eminent approve its methods
THE Duly OF THE HouR.
Will you attend the mass meeting 10 discus
this great international duty. at $50 pm. Sum
day, March q, ct the First Congrsgatiosal
Church 10th and @ streets north west? Win
you contribute personally. and ask your frisnds
TO contribute toward the cargo and transporta-
ton Of q ship to relieve these suffering people2
Remittances may be sent TO E. Francis Riggs,
treasurer District Coluiabia Red Gross Russiaa
famine fund, Riggs Bank, Washington, ID. c.
No collection will be taken as the mass meet
ing.
Names of speakers viii be announced in Sat-
urday evenings STAR
The Pehang Revolt Agsinst the British.
Ii is believed that the Malay rising asainss