MB WEST SHORE.
WHAT TO DO WITH THE RELIEF FUNDS. agine your own children, reader, that are now warmly
clothed, in warm houses, out in that dreary country
5 UK following from Vrt'i Sun is reprinted an a sug- compelled to exist in a one-room sod shanty, with no
gcstion to the people of the Pacific coast, who food hut corn meal perhaps, no fire but a few snioul-
are enjoying unexampled prosperity and can af- during corn-stalks or sun-flowers, barefooted and shiv-
ford to contribute litarally to aid those who. in ering. Think of those children sent to school, miles
necking a home in the west, cant their lot upon the across a prairie, with pieces of gunny sack tied on their
prairies of Dakota rather than in the lovely and fer- feet! Think of the blizzards, and the hopeless life
tile valleys of the Columbia baHin. It is especially they lead! These people can not make known their
recommended to the attention of the relief committees sufferings, because the local papers dare not say much
of Seattle, Ellensburgh and Sjwkane Falls, who hold against the country they are published in, for fear of
in their hands unexpended balances of the most lib- keeping people away. County officials are in the same
eral donations made by their sister cities of the north- fix, not desiring to officially endorse the idea of asking
west when the hand of allliction was laid heavily upon for help, when they are claiming that their country is
them. What better use could Ito made of the money the garden spot of the earth. New governors of new
than to help relieve this destitution in Dakota, and states are not anxious to pose as asking for alms for
thus make it perform an errand of mercy, for which, their people, who have been represented as happy and
though ii another locality, it was originally sent? The prosperous, and who are inviting countless thousands
article referred to says: to come there and settle. So the settlers are in hard
" At a recent meeting of the I.yal Legion, a check luck. There is money enough that would flow to the
for f UNI was returned from the fund sent to Johns- Dakotas if people of the east could be acquainted with
town. IV, not having lcen used, and immediately the the facts, but it is not state policy to begin to beg so
money was voted to the Dakota sufferers, and sent to sxn after becoming states in the union. There should
the governors of the two states the next morning. The be an organization in every town and city in the east
action o the M.lwaukee Commandery of the Loyal to help the destitute of the far west. The term " far
Legion should I followed by all other organizations west" does not here include the region west of the
hat can spare a dollar The suffering of the Dakotas Rockies, where prosperity reigns-Eo. Money, cloth-
hi- winter will be a thousand times greater than at ing and food should be sent at once, or there will be i
Johnstown 1 he actual suffering at Johnstown was wail pretty soon from that destitute prairie that will
comparatively over I, ,re a dollar was contributed, chill the marrow in the bones of those who hear it,
he people who were drowned could 8ufler no more, and it will tax the living to bury the dead before the
i ":::: U ; W 8,111 d",h'J the lo- winter is over. The Loyal Legion of Milwaukee ha,
al y, winch was ruh. There was never any sense in made a starter. Let everybody contribute."
a dollar U-ing contributed outside of Pennsylvania m , m
rulVTt0 1,1,1 TT 'H The Sa" FranciHC0 Ch-er of Commerce draw,
, n in . Jirin f T g, "Ha,U,H th line " " Th0 ftt of th0 lt" i8 th8t
rnuueu io cnaniy Ix'camc luzv inendienntH n,n f... i ., ., '
Iribulor obj.rt.l io the purchase of ,, tl 1 " Frand8C f88U8
for the destitute, but ey did k k Z"fT7t l
,7ey to.pair rail' ads and 1 ' " "
vide building tor people to U m up in the jewelry '
business, as was the case in one instance. Thenione'v mir,. n,. ... ,
was largely divert! from the uses intended by I s. luxu v f 7 Y' "
who contributed. In some of the counties f ) 7 JU'. nd two hM for ne
the farmers have not had . d.vent crop rJ v, 1 , , I " ' ln ' fcw the Btat5 wi"
and they are destitute. With fa , n tly Tai ' " , ? 1,,8iH,fttl'Ns. Other states mannge to
.hey will Uo ,v,rything if ,h l a 7 he ? it"? T tnd T
and they wil, .ay J .ong" as the have a tuthfX Zl! J fa -
rat. There is no Aid, as even the hay they have here- '
tutor burned is not to had on account of the drouth The Vnny, r " , .
of last summer. There art, women and children with . , l hft8 boUPhl the lm
out ftHKl and clothing, child with no sho,, or stock- 1 1 lZ7 n"ll8;MinnpnHi8 " thi"
ings. and the eldest kind of a winter cviuing on. In.- years Pwwlon of them in a few