Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-06-06
EMPIRES AVARICE.
Are We to Steal the Philippines and Let
the Natives Starve In the Midst
Plenty?

The Christian Herald. which took
advantage of DIR. Sheldon's as-Christ-
would newspaper sensation to adver-
tise the Herald's scheme to raise
money for the relief of suffering in In
dia, has issued pamphlet appealing
for aid for the famine sufferers. AS
a supplement to the pamphlet the
Christian Herald sends out the fol-
lowing:
The half has not been told in the
enclosed pamphlet. 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 500 victims in India who have
died for the want of crust. The
cable operates quickly and your con-
tribution to-day may save scores, hun
dreds, yes, thousands, of lives to-
morrow.
How many lives will you save?
Two cents day will support one
life.
"One dollar will save life for two
months.
1.-TWO dollars will save life until
the harvest.
Five dollars will save a man. wife
and child until the next crop is gath
cred.
''Ten dollars will 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 comfort of blank
cts during the rainy and cold season.
Fifty dollars would save five fami-
lies.
Zone hundred dollars would save a
small community"
The Philadelphia North American,
John Wanamaker's paper, comments
ing on the foregoing. says:
God forbid that we should do any,
thing to- check for one instant the
flow of American benevolence toward
tortured people betrayed in their
desperate need by their rightful pro-
tectors. But is impossible to read this
appeal without rejecting on the re-
sponsibilities of those who make it
necessary.
India is part of the British en-
pire. The British government is
spending S5OO.OOO.OOO to subjugate a
little group of farmers Just outside of
its dominions while it's own subjects
are dying by millions for lack of as
sistance which is amply able to fur
nish. Turning the Christian Heralds
table into another shape, we may say:
Two rife cartridges day will sup
port one life.
"One siX-pounder shell will save a
life for two months.
''One 12-pounder shell will save a
life. until the harvest.
Zone pair of cavalry boots will save
man, wife and child until the next
crop is gathered.
"One minutes discharge of Maxim
gun will save a whole family from
death.
1.-The cost OF the war for one second
will save ten lives for four months.
1.-TWO rifles will save them and af-
ford them the comfort of blankets
during the rainy and cold season.
"The cost of firing one shot from a
six-inch gun would save five families.
Zone scrub baggage-train horse
would save a small community.
"One-fifth of the cost of attempting
to conquer the Beers would save the
entire 5O,O00,O00 of England's starving
subjects in India.
1.-THE rescue of these lives is simply
a matter of money. There is food
enough in India. All that is necessary
is the means of buying it. The cable
operates quickly says the Christian
Herald, and your contribution to-day
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 that of benevolent Americans. If
it be true that every 6he of us who
contribute two dollars save the life
of some wretched Hindoo who would
die but for that succor, then every
human being in India who perishes
for lack of such assistance is mur-
dered by the government that is
abundantly able to supply it, but pre-
fers to devote the price of ten Hindoo
lives per second to the extinction of
republicanism in South Africa. That
is the price that staggers humanity
CommerelaI Cnnulbalism