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Show STOP GRUMBLING. The workingman in thia country has grevious troubles and sore difficultly diffi-cultly in making both enda meet, while he ia attempting to support his family and educate his children, eo that their condition may be improved in society beyond hia own. There are plenty ol families in the United States who do not know where their means of subsistence a few daya ahead will come from, or in what manner they are to get safely through the next three- months. Yet these people do generally manage to pull through, and we hear of very lew coses ol actual starvation or real suffering from want of food, even in the large citiea, j where there ia a superabundance of idle population. The present condition condi-tion of affairs here, however, is admit ted to be bad enough, and considering our wealth of production and resources It is a national diograce that a single' healthy family iu the United States, whose heads are Industri- j ous aud frugal, should not have an ample supply of good clothing and other comforts of life; and aa there muit b some general oauae for every i great disorder, this exceptional elate of affairs wc naturally charge to vicious political policies and set to work to J create a political revolution to uproot ( tho cause and change the current; towards a healthful prosperity. J Very few Americana, however, i pause to think while making thorn I selves miserable in grumbling over their own bad luck, of the terrible scourges of war and famine that are now aUlicting great nations of man-kiud, man-kiud, aud millions of people, whom death, by diseaso, by the bullet, by starvation, or by the brutal and mercilets zealots called bashi bazouks, , or tho relentless Coaaacks, is staring directly in the face; that thousanda of defenaeleaa wives and mothers are daily praying even that death niav release them and their children from a more horrid fate. It would be well worth while even for the poorest of Americans to get out of the ruts of their own distress for a little time to glance at the present pres-ent condition and prospects of a vast tract of land in India, upon which, according to the London Spectator, live from 14,000,000 to 20,000,000 ol human beings, nine-tenths of whom are entirely dependent upon the crops for subsistence, while one-third, at least, live from hand to mouth, never a month before the world, and usually in a condition which in this coun fru wrtnM hn doanrihon tw niirt nf try w,ould no described as ouo oi ( extreme and dangerous destitution." , There at least 1,008,000 of poisons ' in the Madrac presidency whose whole property, including their clothes, would not in a good year sell for ten shillings, who are absolutely depend eut for subsistence upon minute payments pay-ments in kiud or an almost imperceptible imper-ceptible share in a small crop, and who in a year of drouth, wheu the crop ia dead and the gain wages unprocurable, un-procurable, have literally nothing but, their waistcloths, could not we use the words in their moat literal and dreadful meaning keep themselves alive lor forty eight hours without assistance from the state. Owing partly to historic circumstances, part iy to rare peculiarities, but principally princi-pally to the long prevalence of the worst land tenure ever devised by the wit of man a tenure that skeins to economists to have been invented by some socialist in a fit of delirium they have lived for generations in Buch poverty, under so near an ap proach to actual hunger, that they have no stamina, and perish under any new burden like insects iu rain or fish in an accidentally poisoned river. Upon this population, these 16,-000,000 16,-000,000 already bo tried that they Bell their poor jewels, their sole surplus, at the rate ol 80,000 a month by the mint accounts alone upon the 3, 000,000 more who have paused this stage, have sold all and are giving up the struggle upon this 1,000,000 who have given it up already, and are 1 waiting death by disease in the 7aBl encampments fed by the state, there is about to descend the uuspeakable horror ot a second year of want six more months at least during which nothing will be attainable, not even grass, except from the state alms. There is no wealth in the Madras presidency, aa Englishmen under stand wealth, and there never has been any. Portugal, the Canton ol Uuterwaiden, the Circle of Archangel and the Scottish Orkneys are well ofi beside Biliary. The state alone is rich, aud the state must do all, under conditions which may well make a secretary of Btote feel aa if he could no longer understand what hope waa. 1 The new tamine district is not a province; pro-vince; it is a continent. The villages are scattered, the population thin, the people, though industrious, unenergetic. There is not one great and navigable river. There is throughout through-out but one railway, and in districts like kingdoms no railway at all. There are few roads worthy cf the name. Aa Lord Salisbury expressly mentionB, food, if Bent to the villages, must be sent in carts drawn by oxen, wiicD eat nearly all thoy carry, and cannot under any urgency, do steadily twenty miles a day, and oveu that exhausting ex-hausting and wasteful device is probably prob-ably beyond the power of government to adopt. In tho famine-stricken districts dis-tricts there are no cattle left. Their louder pensneu nrai, anu me ie beasts still Itlt alive are, as Mr, Williams described them monthaago, far too weak for draught. The government, gov-ernment, no doubt, could send down thousanda of the beautiful cattle oi north, beasta that would excite the pride of a Lombard landlord; but they caunot live on air, they can barely carry tboir own tood recollect their pace and that they have to return aud they cannot.even to save a human life, be used as iood. Eveu the dyinjj would rise in insurrection at the thought of such unholy diet. There is uotning for it but "relief centres," and relief ceutrea under such circum-1 circum-1 stances imply bursts of depopulating disease. Let any soldier acquainted with camps think of encampments with 50,000 aoula in each men, women and childreu all arriving half fed and living on half rations, ataiioned by streams and tanks for the sake of water, scarcely housed, anu living amoug tropical odors and miasmas, and he, at least, will recognize recog-nize all the elements of the new dis ease which first struck Lord Hastieg. ' camp in the Pindaree war, and his ever aiuce terrified the world as Asiatic cholera. The prospect ia appalling, ap-palling, but if the second year of CiminR falls and Lord Salisbury be lieves it to be falling there is no remedy that man can apply. We are carefully avoiding exaggeration when we Bay it is not only possible, it is imminently probable that the population ot Southern India will thia year be reduced by 4,000,000 who have perished of hunger and the diseases dis-eases which hunger long continued loaves behind in ita train. In the face of this terrible picture of the present and the future, which actually defies all the efforts of wealth and charity to avert its fatal results, the American people with their abundant productive resources have little reason to air their Bufferings be fore the world. At best their grievances griev-ances are only light and fanciful compared com-pared with those real terrors of the famino-stricken Indians, or the pco pie of war-devasted Turkey, or the conscription-cursed millions of Eus gia. These lands of misery embrace a population more than twice aa nu meroua as that of the United States, upon which tho curse of God almost seems to real. It seems almost time for us to call a bait among tho American Ameri-can mourners, and if we caunot do something to alleviate the stricken millionB of our brethren iu distant lands, we may at least show our gratitude grat-itude that we have been placed in a land ol plenty and peace, and that our trifling troubles which cannot bo averted may at leat be endured. |