Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-29
THE RUSSIAN FAMINE.
An Appeal for More Help.

An Appeal for MOfe heAps The following circular has been issued by the Russian famine relief committee of the United States: The more full and definite our informa- tion concerning the famine in Russia, the more appalling and horrifying it appears. Nothing like it has occurred in Caucasian history. Millions of people have at times been more or less deficient through failure of crops, but in Russia starvation is not only staring tens of millions in the face, but is this moment claiming it's victims in large numbers.
 Nor does this dreadful famine work its work of death unaided by attendant hor- volved of suffering, is now indeed 8 thing of the past, but it is more than replaced by the increasing terrors of disease from which few escape.
 The picture is still that of millions of gaunt, haggard. desolate, dying families; of children appealing to weeping mothers, ! whose agony of distress makes sole answer | in wailings and lamentations; of fathers relinquishing their share of fast-diminish- ing stores, bidding farewell to wives and children they cannot save and going forth in anxious quest of food enough to save themselves; of numbers in every village not only starving, but sick with famine fever and pleading through tears for the hastening of death they cannot escape; finally, of loved ones dead in many deso- late home where there is not strength | enough in those who survive to bear them forth to burial
 The Russian government is using heroic efforts to save it's dying people. But it's resources, great as they are, with the shrinkage through successive failure of crops by an amount said to be not less than hundreds of millions, are not sufi- nearly fourth of the whole population of the empire. The world, the civilized world, must come to their rescue or mil lions will perish.
 There is at last partial awakening of the nations. Thoughts of kinship among all peoples, of human brotherhood, and of that exalted and tender sentiment we name humanity-these are now moving the hearts of the children of men.
 But in Europe the scarcity of the past season has been general. There is small surplus anywhere.
 The heart of hope in Russia looks across the western ocean to this, our own happy land, where plenty reigns, and looks to a people large hearted, sympathetic and ever ready to respond to the cry of want from whatever quarter of the world. The hope is not vain. If America has been slow in this case it has been through lack of in- formation and because of much misin- formation. She is at last awake and al some of the great centers is moving with g zeal which, if it become contagious as ii should, will rescue the millions of Russia and gladden. the heart of the civilized world.
 The treighted ships already sent forth have made noble beginning. But othe, ships must follow. One for each month until after the harvest would be a fitting and possibly a sufficient response from this great and prosperous nation.
 Will not the people of your goodly city take an honorable part in this benefcent works And will not his honor the mayor and the honorable council find pleasure ir of relief by calling meeting of citizens them, and by selecting a committee whose office it shall be to canvass tke town, anc to use other effective measures until the contributions shall have fully met the de mands of high and most Christian sense of duty to their suffering and dying fel low men?
 If it be asked through what agency tn, l to those who suffer, we point with higl confidence to that world wide organization the Red Cross of Geneva, an organization sanctioned by some forty iDternationa treaties, which has it's American branch known as the American National Red Cross with the distinguished and philanthropie Miss Clara Barton for president, and also it's Russian branch, presided over by that exalted and most humane parsonage, the Czarina of all the Russias. Consignmente of money intended for the Red Cross may be sent either directly to Clara Barton president, or to the bankers, Riggs & Go. treasurer, all of Washington, D. c. -
 There is no -ssse1r, medium. The agents are peeedy The cause is holy. Five dol iars may save human life. Will no multitudes of our people gladly deny them selves, if need be, some of the pleasures O life for season that they may rescue fellow being from the most terrible ot deaths.
 In the name of all by whom and fo whom this appeal is made,
 JOHN W. HoYT, Chairman of the Russian Famine Relief :. Committee of the United States.