Show CHOLERA PROM RUSSIA I 1 9 it is just as well that america should know to whom she is indebted for the apprehensions of cholera that are now shared by so many because cholera Is an asiatic disease it is at once assumed that the present outbreak in europe has an asiatic origin and that in some mysterious way it has crept overland and established its foothold in the west such however Is not the case the present epidemic originated in russia it is tho direct result of russian anil the responsibility tor whatever ravages it may ultimately commit will ho at the door of russia and of russia alone all this Is made perfectly clear by a competent writer in the new york tribune famine has been rampant in russia for nearly s year its causes are too obvious to need indication vast armies have been raised from the tillers of the soil and ane soil has therefore remained unfilled taxes have multiplied and they have been upon the poorest of the poor who have surrendered their horses sheep cattle and poultry in default of money with the first pinch of hunger the sead grain has been eaten and now famine has laid its gaunt hold upon the land and severe as it already is it Is but in its initial fr the writer asserts from his own experience peri ence and that of others mho are equally competent that every famine of man Is attended also by a famine of beast and that these are invariably followed first by an epidemic of botine typhus and secondly by cholera A sufficiency of food is an admirable safeguard against cholera as an absence of food is an invitation to it russian conditions have furnished every possible invitation and tho invitation has been accepted the return 0 the eold lera to their bomea will necessarily be very stow and alie distress Is now so tar advanced that the arrival of tho breadwinner alu do attle more than provide another mouth to be filled the winter is close at hand there are no crops no reserve ot food no seed grain no farm animals during the famine of 1901 the official show that peasants were starving and there Is every reason to fear that this frightful number Is to be surpassed railway communications are bad and the rolling stock has been transferred to tho siberian line in times of ordinary scarcity the people were accustomed to rely upon the jews who were the money lenders of the nation it was a bad alternative but even the usurer ts moro merciful than hunger but now the jew lias been banished persecuted and tortured he is no longer available it is a frightful picture of crime incompetence and stupidity it has no redeeming feature no touch of the human sympathy that makes all misfortunes bearable war famine and cholera and the last of the thre marking its fell path through europe and asserting in its own hor elble way those common interests of the great human family that are otherwise unrecognized and unacknowledged |