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Show THE INDIA FAMINES. The Tribune has frequently anld that the famines In India are famines of money, not of food Thla la fully confirmed con-firmed by the returned medical mls-alonary mls-alonary from Portland, Ore., Dr Maud Allen She ha been In India for seven ycara, whence aha hna Just re-turned, re-turned, and says that It la Idle to send food to India, because there la never any real dearth of grain In the country, but that It la the rapacity of the money-lenders that causes tho dls-tress dls-tress These "hanyaa" have the money they set a "corner" on the supplies and fix tho prleea at prohibitive rates In een years Dr Allen hna aeen two famines, but th'y were confined to cer tain districts the rest of India, could supply these districts with wheat, for the warehouses are full, If the people had the money to buy It. The doctor has wondered why the American people did not know thin Hut they did know It. A we sold above, we hae repeatedly re-peatedly proclaimed It It whs known to all the world that India wns export-Inn export-Inn wheat In shiploads at tho very tlmo that the ravauea of tho famine were re-poited re-poited the worst At the aaino time, It la true that there was ft real dentth of food In the district where th famine pievailed There wero mighty distributions distri-butions of food bv the llrltlsh authorities authori-ties the stnrvlnc were fed on a ecale nexer before seen In any fnmlnea before be-fore lr tin world s history, but the food to do thla did not need to hr.sent to India, In-dia, thcie was plenty there, nnd If the peoplo hnd had money wherewith tn buy, If they could hno softened tho hearts of the usurera so that money could Iibno been had, there would have been no lack any where. |