The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-04-27
Two Views.

Two VIEWS.
The Christian Herald has issued a
| pamphlet, appealing for aid for the
famine sufferers in India. AS a sort
of supplement to the pamphlet, it
sends out the following:
''The half has not been told in the
enclosed pamphltH. Our courage has
failed Us to present all the shocking
| details. Every time the clock strikes
the hour it tolls the death knell of at
least five hundred victims in India
who nave died for the want of crust.
The cable operates quickly and your
fcontribution, to day may save scores.
hundreds, yes thousands of lives to-
morrow.
"How many lives wifi you save9
"Two cents a day will support one
Zone dollar will save a life for two
months.
1.-Two dollars will save life until
the harvest.
''Fiv. dollars will save a man, wife
and child until the next crop is gath
cred.
+" Ten dollars win save whole fam
| lily from death. %
"Twenty dollars will save ten lives
| for four months.
'Twenty five dollars will save them
and afford them the escomfort of blank
cts during the rainy and cold season.
Fifty dollars would save five fam
lilies. ..
lone hundred dollars would save
VIII ole community"
The Philadelphia North Ameaican,
Mr.. John Wanamaker's paper, COM
menting on the foregoing says:
sc cd 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 despe-
rate need by their rightful protectors.
But it is impossible to read this ap-
peal without rejecting on the respon-
sibilities of those who have made it
necessary.
"India is part of the British en-
pire. The British government is
spending $500, 900, 900 ito subjugate a
little group of farmers just outside of
its dOminions white its own subjects
| are dying by millions for lacE of the
| furnish. Turning the Christian Her.
say:
1.-Two rifle cartridges a day will
SUPPORT one life.
| " One six-pOunder shell will' save a
! life for two mOnebs.
| "One twelve-pounder shell will
save life until the harvest.
a' One paic of cavalry boots will
save a man, wife and child until the
next crop is gathered.
| Zone minute's discharge of a Max
i'm gun will save whole family from
death
=. The cost of the war for one Sec
ond will save ten lives for four
| N onths.
1.-Two rifles will save them and af-
ford chem the comfort of blankets dur
ing the rainy and cold season.
"The cost of firing one shot from a
six inch ogun would save five families.
"One Scrub baggage Grain horse
would save small community.
'''One fifth of the cost nf attempting
ito conquer the Beers would save the
entire fifty millions of England :
starving subjects in India.
''TEe rescue of these lives is simply
matter Of money. There is food
enough in India. All that is necessa-
~ is the means of buying it. The
cable operates quickly, says the
Christian Herald, and your contrjbn-
tioes to-day may save sco,as, hund-
reds, yes thousands of lives tOmor-
row. The cable would operate just
rs quickly at theo command OF the
! British government as at that of be-
nevolent Americans. If it be otrue
that every one ofsus who contributed
two dollars saves the life of SONS
wretched HJndoo who would die bnt
for chat succnr. then every human be-
irg in India who perishes for lack of
s, ch assistance is murdered by the
government that is abunda antly able
to supply it. but prefers t@ devote the
price of ten Hindou lives per second
10 the extinction of repyblicanisl0 in
South Africa.o That is. the price that
staygers humanity. 'H'SStale Journal