Show VINEYARDS IN PORTUGAL grap growers in bad way over in ability to dispose of stored up crops the distress among the agricultural laborers Is taxing in many parts ol 01 portugal the resources of the loca authorities especially m the wine disi tracts of the north where the seems to be most acute so keen ap pears to be the distress that the sub elect lect been laid batore the carlla ment according to local press in thes districts whose products in pro times are a chief source of the oun try wealth many of he vineyard owners have in cellars the bar acts of two years grape crowth the are unable to sell except at e huge sacrifice and not being able t obtain the cash on which they count el tor help from banke s and other to tide over bad times bihy ihy have re soiled this year to discontinue it amny vineyards the hoeng and othel indispensable labor ahls has led to employment of some thousand of hands who co ild otherwise haat coi anted upon employment hunger and misery it is said an seen everywhere and the poor stara in wretches are spreading themselves vel over the country to the detriment ol 01 oti ers of the working cla s whose lo 10 is bi little better and resorting t p iteming and begging to satisfy reeds instances are said by the pres to have occurred where some men wh i pre considered well to dc lave solved tor themselves the ques of financial difficult PS by resort ing to suicide some few years ago a regular keyei of vineyard making spread over the northern halt of the coun ry and over production has been the result which wiser portuguese heads foresaw and avoided but their warnings were no lebbed |