Show THE THE CHINESE HI ESE FAMINE lAMINE The Thc Telegram is in lin ree receipt of a 3 circular from fromI I China Famine Relief committee of ot New York appealing for funds fluids to relieve the sufferers front the great fa famine ine which which- h 1 menaces cs c's the thc lives Ii of families in in a. a t One paragraph from frOl 1 time the thc cirG circular far reads as as' as follows fol follows follows fol- fol fol- fol lows As AS' r re ident of the American Tied Red Cro Cross s President Taft has hall j a 3 proclamation asking the people of the United Sta States tc to to help th thA thAp p people o lc of China IT ITo Ilo 0 ha has joined with th other officers of the He Red Cross in in requesting t this his citizens' citizens committee to make known tho the facts The Chinese government o and lUd people are doin doing what thc they can cando cando cando do to relieve the situation itu tion but they can meet only a fraction of the need This is one of the greatest famines famine of oC modern times time Six hundred thou thousand and Jiel ate are without food or moans of support Fifteen dollars donars will ill save c a it family from front starvation Fifteen hundred dollars will tull avo wo one hundred families Fifteen cn tb thousand u nd dollars will TIro i provide o for one thousand families Hundreds of thousands thou of lives can cari thus thus' be ed saved if jf sufficiently prompt and generous contri are arc made That is all most pitiable The circular further says that remittances should d be sent to Mr fr Jacob JacobU H. H 1 ll Madison avenue New Now New York but we pre that is intended for contributions east of the mountains ns It would be better here t to send them to San Francisco or Seattle The rhe circular says no harvest est can be lie expected until May Ma- But in iu the meantime 15 25 5 will save the lives ives of a family Accordini to the latest news China has ceased to be a monarchy and has become a r republic m meIc mod modeled d I I cled l aft after r our own republic Would it not be bc an au I act of grace which would come corne back to us in the near future were congress by joint resolution to vote a million of dollars for the immediate reli relief f of the starving men and women and little children in in China 1 We Ve are sure the p people ople of the United States would approve of the thc gift That should not cause any orson to withhold any mr charity which he ic or she i io k able to render but it would be an act which wOl would d be bc a notice to the world that tle hearts hearts- of this country arc open to the thc poor and the suffering Congress has more than once voted a laige arge all allowance wanee to a stricken portion of this country country country coun coun- when nen the disaster has try come through fire or flood or other calamity it spent mili millions ons of dolt dol- dol t Juns Jun's ars rn i in red ming regenerating and dis disenthralling Cuba j it is spending millions minions of dollars in the Philippines es upon a people that are arc not and never be American i merican I 1 Why should not the help go out to tl tIle tho o starving in China 7 We are arel s sure re the eO country would d approve and the reputation ati L of the country co would be exalted all around the world |