The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-08-24
Keen Your Charity at Home!

Farmers Alliance leaders have Issued an
appeal to the FARMERS OF the West" in
which they make these false and inflamma-
tory statements:
Aory OF hunger and starvation comes up from the
heart Of tho great metropolis New York. II comes
from the throats OF tens thousands OF American c
sens who without bread 1t ascends to heaven
amid the noise Of call board the Stock Exchange
and the jlnsInr OF gold tho money counters Of Wall
street It 10 intensified by the tears and means Of
starving mothers and famishns children: men are
becoming Desperate and the Raunt spectre OF famine
stalks abroad unheeded By those who have grown fat
By the psge Of labor and thu ravishins Of industry
The social incendiaries, accordingly. beg
the farmers to send speedily corn. wheat.
and potatoes to this city In order that
"disorder and bloodshed may be averted."
Though you yourselves are poor and mis-
cradle. they say to the farmers. 1t Is your
duty to endure further self-sacriflce for the
benefit Of those starving multitudes In New
York. "You must feed them!"
The incentive for this appeal has been
furnished by lying and seditlous newspa-
pers. which have been representing to the
country that this city is in an alarming
state OF restitution. and which have been
encouraging parades and angry demonstra-
otherwise melting the idle. the vicious. and
the turbulent to sedltion and riot. The tales
about starvation In New York. OF which
these Farmers Alliance demagogues have
made such use. have been manufactured by
the incendiary World more particularly. in
its sordid and constituencies efforts to gain
circulation by stirring up the poor to en-
nifty against the rich.
In order that the farmers OF the West
may waste neither their sympathy nor
their charity on New York, We shall tell
them the truth. There Is no starvation
here. There Is no restitution which the
vast and varied system OF charities is not
capable Of relieving. No man. woman.
or child In the town need go without
food because Of any deficiency In such
provisions Of philanthropy. 1t may be
that many people are compelled to live
more sparingly now than when employ
ment was more readily obtainable: but
they are not starving. Neither are they
paupers who would accept charity from the
Western farmers. AS whole. they are as
we'll of as those farmers themselves. They
may be idle now. but they are Industrious,
self-respecting. and self-supportlng men
and women, whose labor will be required
by reviving enterprise In a short time. Up
good wages: and not many OF them now
are absolutely without money.
II the Farmers Alliance can discover any
case Of starvation or OF restitution in New
York, 1t has only to report it to any one Of
the many charities or any one Of the null
titude OF benevolent individuals to obtain
instant relief for the suffering. So far from
neRlecting opportunities for charity. New
York is ceaselessly hunting for them. Com
petitive benevolent societies are eager to
find them. The danger Is that in their
charitable zeal they may foster pauperism.
rather than that they will pass by distress.
In the crowded Jewish district In the
lower part Of the town. are the most numer-
Gus instances OF desttution; but the
Hebrew Aid Society has found no starva-
ton there. Even when the times were most
prosperous. poverty was prevalent in that
quarter. The jewish immigration has in
creased enormously Of recent years. with
tho result that the demand for the
sort Of labor 1t furnishes has been
more than supplied. Those miserable
creatures. the victims OF foreign per-
secution. have been coming hither too fast.
In chief part they have congregated In this
city, and there are too many of them for
the work they are competent to do: but
such charity as they need at this time or at
any other time ID always ready for them
Instead Of too little. there is too much OF
1t, with the consequence that the spirit OF
Is cultivated and the stream OF
Is attracted hither.
c. o, l..
the Western farmers can keep their charity
to expend at home. This town is not suf-
fering from hunger. Neither is it hopeless
OF attaining q higher degree of prosperity
than prevails at this moment without over
turning the organization OF society. 1t
knows that before long the wheels Of enter
prise will be turning as swiftly and as
merrily as ever before.
Italy and France.