To the Editor of the "Nonra-Curxa Datty News."
Sin,—It is a remarkable but sad reflexion that a nation like Cama with her thousands of years of civilization and her republican form of government should tolerate the trade in children, which has been and is still carried on in the famine districts. Certainly distress, misery and unrelieved wretch-eelness may drive a man crazy and the poor seller ought not to be blamed. But the thing that strikes me most is that not only do the Official authorities not object to such a trade, but even the well-todo people regard the purchasing of young children from their poor parents as a benevolent act. Consequently, the keener of the house of ill-fame and the actors of low standing under pretence of charity, travelling along the famine di tricts, invest their money by purchasing youn children with little expense, so that they may make a profit in the future.
T was told that the market price of a male child is from two dollars to two and a half, while a female child is in the eyes of traders more valuable, so that they would rather pay four dollars. What a monstrous market it is! What an inhuman transaction that is being carried on from day to day with these poor creatures.
Cannot the famine relief associations and. other charitable institu-ions take this matter into consideration and put an end to it?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.