Feb. 19
There are certain questions jection with the famine North China, certain doubts which will have to be set at rest, before appeals for relief xin that response which they no doubt deserve. We are informa: that the collection of money the United States has been almost niggardly, as compared with the usual unstinted gene sity of the American public in such cases of need. This he partly due to the fact that there was a surplus from 1 t famine relief campaign of about $1,000,000, which the promoters of the campaign, no: having any farther outlet for the money in China, ultimately placed in the charge of a trust, to be spent on education. 'The pretence that this education was to specialize in' methods of preventing future famines does not falter the fact that the American public had been persuaded to contribute far more than was necessary, and that the surplus
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