Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-21
ENGLAND'S CRIME.
SHE ALLOWS MILLIONS OF HER
SUBJECTS TO sTARvE,
While She Spends the Money That
Would Save Them In Destroying
the Beers in South Africa.

While She Spends the Money That
Would Save Them in Destroying
the Beers in South Africa.
In view of England's course In allow
ing millions of her subjects to starve
while she is carrying on war Of
criminal aggression" the religious
people of the world should send in q
protest that would compel her to listen.
The Christian Herald makes an impas-
stoned appeal for aid to save Indias
starving millions. 1t gives horrible
pictures, showing the effects Of the
starvation, and says: Two cents day
will support one life; one dollar will
save life for two months; two dol
lars will save a life until harvest; ten
dollars will save whole family from
death; fifty dollars would save five
families; one hundred dollars would
save small community"
The Philadelphia North American,
ever ready to see the wrongs and In
consistencies in such matters. very per-
tinently says:
God forbid that we should do any
thing to check for one instant the flow
of American benevolence toward a tor
tured people betrayed in their des-
perate need by their rightful protect
ors. But it is impossible to read this
appeal without rejecting on the re-
sponsibilities of those who have made
1t necessary.
India is a part of the British em-
pire. The British government Is spend
ing $500, 100000 to subJugate little
group of farmers just outside of Its
dominions while its own subjects are
dying by millions for lack of the as
sistance which 1t Is amply able to fur
nsh. Turing The Christian Herald's
table into another shape, we may say:
1.-TWO rifle cartridges day will sup
port one life.
Zone six FOUNDER shell will save a
life for two months.
"One twelve FOUNDER shell will save
a life until harvest.
"One pair of cavalry boots will save
a man, wife and child until the next
crop IS gathered.
"One minutes discharge Of a Maxim
gun would save whole family from
DEATH
THE cost Of the war for one second
will save ten lives for four months.
WO TlHeS Will save tutih anu
ford them the comfort Of blankets
during the rainy and cold season.
"The cost of firing one shot from
six inch gun would save five families.
"One scrub baggage train horse
would save a small community.
"One-fifth of the cost of attempting
to conquer the Beers would save the
entire fifty millions Of England's starv-
ing subjects in India.
"The rescue of these lives Is simply
matter of money. There Is food
enough in India. All that is necessary
is the means of buying 1t. The cable
operates quickly says The Christian
Herald, and your contribution today
may save scores, hundreds, yes, thou
sands of lives tomorrow The cable
would operate just as quickly at the
command of the British government as
at that OF benevolent Americans. II
1t be true that every one of us who
contributes two dollars saves the life
Of some wretched Hindoo who would
die but for that succor, then every hui
man being in India who perishes for
lack Of such assistance Is murdered
by the government that is abundantly
able to supply 1t, but prefers to devote
the price of ten Hindoo lives per sec
ond to the extinction Of republicanism
in South Africa. That Is the price
that staggers humanity"