The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1900-06-28
FAMINE SCOURGED INDIA.
Appeal From the Relief Commit
tee to the Generosity of
the People.
TWO Gents PER DAY SAVES A LIFE.
Ten Millions of People Are Crying For
Bread and Thousands Are Starving
Daily-YOur Efforts
Can Save.


posed of the most prominent citizens Of
New York city, in every walk OF life
men like Cornelius n. Bliss, John &.
Carlisle, Walter Damrosch, Cyrus Ed
son, Charles r. Flint, George J. Gould,
Francis V. Greene, Abram 5. Hewitt,
Morris X. Jesup, Seth Low, John A.
Mccall, Levi p. Morton, John ID. Rock
afeller. James Stillman, Oscar 5. Strans
and William C. Whitney, is making a
strenuous effort to relieve the India fa-
mine. THE News has been selected as
one of the many newspapers through
which the appeal is to reach the masses
of the people of the Uuited States.
Sums from two cents up will be CRATE
fully received by THE News treasurer
and promptly forwarded to the committee
for transmission to India.
Following is the appeal made in be-
half of India:
INDIA's APPEAL.
Famine, from lack of rain, is now
shifting sixty millions0f our fellow be-
ings. At this moment death by sheer
hunger and thirst threatens one-sixth
of that number. Thousands are Starv-
ing each twenty-fOur hours. In that
stricken land the heavens are as iron
and the earth as brass.
Birds of the air drop lifeleSS from the
burning sky. Hundreds of thousands OF
cattle have already perished. In the
absence of food aud water, fiercest ami
mails let 90 their hatreds, and helpless
lie down together to die. The decay
ing bodies of men and beasts pollutt
both plains and rivers.
And the woe has not yet reached Tho
worst. Face to face with even Sucl
thorror still sand countless little child
ren, and women, aud men whom foo;
will save. Thank God, relief may al
most Instantly pass, by cable, from this
land of plenty to that India of starva
tion. Accordingly, only gifts OF none.
are solicited.
What, then, shall we do? What will
YOU do? For our answer we are clearI.
responsible to both God and man
Ought not America to send quickly a
least a million dollars? In the famip,
districts are efficient, devoted men anC
women, not only American but als'
European, who are already engaged il
the actual rescue, but who are pleading
for larger supplies. Surely such sup
plies can be provided, and yet the Gus
tomarv gifts to long established agencie
for the uplifting of the people of lndii
not be leSsened.
Meanwhile the government of Indi
is organizing relief on scale un
approached in the history of the world
Both treasure and life are given with
out stint in the saving work. On Ma
t4tb the number aided was 5,795, ,00C
That official daily aid will be Steadfast
" continued and increased, yet it Wi
be unable to keep pace with the awfu
Ineed. The death rate is by far tn
greatest in the native provinces, wher
the government has least influence an
control. Only the united efforts of a.
the humane, the cooperating good wi
of all the nations will suffice.
In this emergency the committee G
one hundred gladly puts itself at you
service, the service of the cause.
Messrs Brown Brothers & Company
the well known bankers, 50 Wall Stree
have freely consented to receive an
acknowledge all gifts sent to then
Every expressed wish of. donors wi
be faithfully carried out, and the con
mttee, on its own part, will earnestl
seek the best, most efficient, mos
economical agencies for the distrbl
ton OF undesignated funds.
Together and aton let MS move
the rescue. We can feed the starvn,
There is not minute to be lost. Fro
two to five cents a day will save lif
WILLIAM +. DODGE.
Chairman Committee of One Hundred.