Show MONEY NOT WHEAT WANTED A Returned Missionary From India Says It Is Foolish to Send Grain to Succor Famine Sufferers Oakland Cal Feb SDr Maud Allen Al-len 0 formerly of Porlland Or a medical medi-cal missionary from India who arrived ar-rived today on the steamer Doric after an absence of seven years says that It is foolish for the American people to send ships full of wheat for the succor of the famine sufferers because be-cause there never Is any real dearth of cereals In that empire It Is the rapacity ra-pacity of the moneylenders that starves the suffering natives at the same time that India is actually exporting ex-porting wheat to other countries There Is a class of men there called Banyaa said Dr Allen who are the owners of the money and have no compunction com-punction about charging the highest price for the use of their money Hundreds Hun-dreds may be starving around them but they aro unmoved They get a corner on the product of the farmer there Just as Is done In America If theo Is a failure of crops In one prov inc the price of wheat of course goes up to a figure that makes it prohibitive to the people of the stricken district The wages aro so small that It Is Impossible Im-possible I for the nntlves to save anything any-thing and they are always at the mercy of the Banns The Ban as control l the farmers of the prosperous dlHtricts to such an extent ex-tent they can fix the price at which the product of the fields must be cold The farmer Is always Is debt to these men It lo the want of money and not the want of wheat that brings so much suffering There have been two amIne am-Ine during my stay In India but they I have been confined to certain districts The rent of India could supply these districts with wheat for the warehouses ware-houses are full If the people had the money to buy It We have wondered why the American Amer-ican people did not know this condition condi-tion existed We hiivc been amused nt It our hcs Of course the wheat 18 1 distributed but where does a shipload ship-load of wheat go with a hundred thous Hnnd starving people Why doesntthe Government Interfere Inter-fere when It CoS thousands starving and dylng of hunger Dr Allen was aaked Because the Government is afraid of another Indian mutiny To Interfere Inter-fere with the Bonyns would mein on uprising thnt would cost thousands of I 12nsllh lives for they are the allpow erful claaa The Government cant force thpm to give away their wheat It tried awhile HSO to clean out a vii lagvj l that wto Infected with the plague but a riot occurred Immediately |