Show A CONDITION OF DISTRESS the severe cold spell that now holds bolde the be greater part of the country in its graep has baa brought to public notice the distressed conditions of many thousands of people in the populous centers in these places notably in ID chicago and now new york charitable societies ard public officials are seeking to ameliorate the suffering oot not only from the inci inclement lement weather ber but from the pangs of hunger it if it were only for the few days the cold spell will last that measures of relief are necessary there would not be much to worry over lo in the situs situa for the means adopted probably ab ay would he equal to the emergency but the tact fact that in furnishing relief to those whose buffer sufferings were intensified by the he cold there were found to be so ao many people actually la in a condition of starvation reveals a painful condition that existed independent of the present stress of weather and tells a tale of woo woe and death in this country that Is ie appalling to contemplate this suffering buffering of the poor to is not confined to even vie the great cities it has illustration throughout almost every state in the union here in the rocky mountain states and territories there Is huoh less of it than elsewhere yet some Is known here but in all other sections of the cut buttry try it jo Is a serious phase of the present situation the appeals for abe poor that ii re made in every state in the union and are named in the local papers but seldom find their way to the country at large are many and urgent and takeo taken in the aggregate agg rogate they present a deplorable picture in some instances there are local causes and in others the general business bu sineas condition of the country com cob tributes to the result which in all the he cases to Is about the same now the cold weather brings nary a cry for help belp in some localities while in others it is a different condition in louisiana for instance Imi ance it is the drouth and the new orleans states of the dinst joins with its in an appeal for the suffering in an article which bagi begins no as follows A terrible calamity has befallen a large and rich portion of our state one of the most fearful droutha that ever afflicted the land last summer visited a number of the fairest parishes in louisiana and ruin and desolation mark its trail the crops were blasted the foliage of the forests was withered up and even the wild game destroyed or driven off the water courses were dried up every green and living thing was consumed an aa by a blasting fire human life alone wasi was 1 a spared red 1 and that to suffer and starve of cc aral find help in the charity of those who escaped the terrible visitation the states stales calls on the people to think of the men willing to do any v w rk who are standing nerveless help less lees to 10 the midst of their une with neither bread nor meat to esq eat J to think of the women sitting with wibb s bowed beads while their little ones onea weep at their feet and beg for the broad bread that to Is not there to give them to re member that this condition is not due to wilful indolence of the people who are sufferers th that at the men are I 1 intelligent energetic olt bissas who honestly strive veto to be thrifty that the women are ladies cultivated and the children are those who are to succeed to the government anil and thinking of and remembering theae things abines that those who have hare escaped calamity open their hearts and their purse strings for the relief of their fol foj low beange whether it be in newyork New York or illi 1111 nois or wisconsin or louis louisiana jana the burden of the appeal is about the same aid for worthy poor who are wi willing liling to help themselves it if they could find bad a way to earn the food anti ana cloth cio tb ing they need and listening ng to this ibis cry for relief and datil dating 19 at 4 1 the same time the extravagance a and the oppression that characterize a very large proportion of those who ba 1 l money at their heir command it to Is no wow der that a question arises as ae to what h it v the nation is drifting to ere sk a change can be wrought the picture prea ente a very sivery large element of 8 ot of gratification of passion passi oo of 0 reckless dilt dt regard for the brotherhood of mankind kind ju iu the system that is being follows followed and that maintains a state of human slavery which no generosity of the kind and charitable people of the land seems to 0 o be able to lo overcome the present tendency of these condi tlona is to find its end in wholesale ap hearal and calamity unless a check co comes meavery very soon yet to in the states manship of the land there appear no real widespread interest in calling 8 nall bait in the growth of mans Olvi ol 01 till tion there is offered no panacea tor fr the uis ills that afflict the only nobe to la that a divine providence will interfere a and readjust matters upon an equale beaff for which course the requirements of the he near future seem to be as urgent a any that have existed in the worlds world history |