Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-08-10
FAMIN AND THE JUBILEE.

OF the Queens linileH:
While pean~ ,sr~ud-' :" Haven at
the Jubilee Of "eu Victoria, the
tongue of Irelau,i was waSpiSti, but
the voice OF India was mute. The
latter was crowned only in sorrow.
and her heart was Bumbed as she
heard the enguished vail Of her mil
lions starving and looked upon the
unresponsive faces OF her millions
dead. Here thoughts were not with
the pomp and glory of a professional
sublimity. but with the awful sacri-
flee demanded from her children. The
panorama which fitted across her
mind was not the brilliant spectacle
Of marching troops and wheeling
columns, but rarher the dull, hea Wy,
heart-strifing ~pageantry Of woe. She
could not see the face of the good.
moth' rly Queen" for between it and
herself were the gaunt skeletons of
her starving sons, while the roar of
cannon and the breaking waves of
tens Of thousands OF cheers were
drowned iD the piteous shrieks of Der
children for bread.
Aud as she saw that awful con
course begging TO be saved from a
hatred wedding with Death, the uni
versal bride, and knew that in a dis
tant land a woman who had not
raised a finger to check the gruesome
nuptials was being hailed almost as
another Christ, a female Savior, poor
India mosned in the hopeless despair
of her grief.
She had seen the 500, 600, 900 OF 8
Famine Fund, which might have
saved her ~starvelings, stolen by those
who were its c%ustodians, who should
have been the guardians and project
Ors of the people-a crime 8 eDOrm-
Gus in its fiendish results, so devilish
in its conception, that 1t required the
intelligence and ingenuity Of civil
izatien to give it birth.
She had seen the people to whom
she bowed in tribute-che people who
had stolen her lands and her homes,
and who, in return for her patient
inc when she cried to God for bread
she had seen this people permit the
stranger over the seas TO clothe anC
feeds the wards which they had doom
ed to starve.
And she saw more than that, 70
she saw-as clearly as she saw thu
starvation and death around heT-a
plainly as she noticed the cold lool
and the closed curse Of the Briton-
as certainly AS she perceived the whit
sails Of American ships bringing
argosies Of food, ten-thousand time
more joyful sight than gifts OF gol'
and precious stones-s she saw th
granaries Of the merchant princes G
India filled with food, crammed wit
sufficient grain and rice 10 feed every
body. She saw those great store
houses closed as her children WEI
starving and dying; locked as tn
sympathetic stranger rushed to th
rescue barred and holted as the graf
merchants waited for exorbitar
prices which a stripped and famine
stricken people could not pay
securely fastened while the Govern
ment of Great Britain and Irelan
complacently declared that sit is n
within its province to interfere wit
trade"
This is not a fanriful picture OF tt
imagination, but a plain record Of
terrible fact, thoroughly attested in
letter from Rev. I. S. Wyncoop, a
American missionary, and publishe
in the Cleveland Recorder.
Victoria, Queen OF Great Britai
and Ireland aud Empress of Indi
there is the blood Of a murdered pc
pie upOn YOUR Jubilee crown