| Show FAMINE IN SWEDEN AND NORWAY famine is performing its fell work in sweden and norway the visitation is said to be beyond all precedent the most moat severe of the kind that lias has evir ever ever been known in those countries the poor people are reduced to the direst extremities for food every thing that can possibly be eaten or that will anford afford the slightest nutriment is greedily devoured in the best of seasons the food of the poor people in those bleak and forbidding regions is not the best but now that the crops have failed and famine prevails their condition is truly horrible we WO clip the following extract of a let ter from the alba alta california the letter ia is from the interior of the famine stricken country and is only one of hundreds of instances the tho writer states that might be given A poor farmer and his wife and their infant child they are all poor now after six successive years failure of any auy nr harvest being the occupants of a small sma I 1 hut in the village referred to after having consumed their small stock of eatables the husband went to the neighbors trying with his small coin to obtain some nourishment for himself and family but without success as they themselves had not more than a few days rations so to speak and he w was as d directed to try in the next village twe twenty n or twenty five miles oin off he started but when abou about halt half on his through weakness and awid hunger he fell down on the road aad expired some one coming that way a few days after found and recognized the body and brought it back to the village entering the dead mans hut they found the wife dead but the little one alive having in his struggle against hunger consumed nearly the half of his dead moth ers breast and thus preserved its life the number of sufferers is estimated at there is considerable sympathy expressed in the papers east and west for them and subscriptions have been taken up for their relief the compatriots of the aufiere ra who reside Inthis in thib this country are contributing to send them aid our people who are from seandija vla and an they are very numerous nume rous roua in thib this territory will read with sad interest the accounts of the wretched condition of affairs in their native lands that form of relief which suggests itself to others and which ie is generally actea upon n at such times namely the sending 0 of f money or the fitting out of vessels with provisions is not the plan that we would adopt we are called upon to raise means and send it to europe to pay lay the passages of the poor from the linds lands lands of poverty and wretchedness where they dwell and bring them to a country where with ordinary industry and economy a comfortable living can be obtained this is the most effectual form of help because the people are thereby removed to a land where their labors will be remunerative and they can easily if so disposed refund the tha the money which has haa been spent to emancipate them if this be promptly and honestly paid it can be used over and over again for lor the deliverance of other worthy and needy persons but to send money and provisions there is only to afford temporary relief the benefit is not a permanent one it isa iba is a species 3 of pauperization which has the essect effect to demoralize the people who are the recipients of its favors and to kill their energies and independence immigration is the great panacea for the evils which afflict scandinavia and the other overcrowded over crowded and poverty verty stricken countries of europe 41 wah ah this respect the gospel comes in very deed to the people of europe as v apian plan of salvation because the doctrine of the gathering is one of its great distinctive tive features it ie Is gods plan of removing ving many of the evils under which mankind groan there should be a united and determined effort made by our people to respond to the call that has been made upon them for means to send to europe for the poor |
