Our Agents Abroad Trying To Feed 400,000 Starving German Colonists

A dispateh froru St. Petersburg, Itus6iia,, says: "Reporte frora American agente n distressed provinces contraffict the statements that the peasants ore in no furtlver need oí assistance,"which llave created mucli anxiety íimong the peasants, wlio are in urg-eut need of corn, especia.lly seed corn. ■'Mr. Murphy, Secretary'Rusk's corn Ogent, wül issue au appeal to tlie Oerman-Amorican people. He says that there are 300,000 Germán colonists, l'l'0.000 oí whom are Lutlierans, and 80,000 Eoman Catliolics, in Wirect distress, vrho a.ppea;l to their kinsmen in the United States for aid. The crops have failed for several years, and there wae not a drop of rain for toinety-two days in 1891. The taists hare been decimated by spotted typhus fever. "The government has done all in lts power to relieve the sut'ferers and has expended over 200,000,000 roubles. Aid must be speedy to be effective. [f the German-American citizens will sead .-i shipload of ung-round Indian cora, the peaeante wiil be enabled to ferüid part of it in their own windtoills and to sow the rem am der. Mr. Charles Eniory Smith, the republican Umited States Minister liere, will see that it is properly distribnted among the Grerman colonists, wlio have been tostrueted liow to cook it. "It wijl be remembered that a few weeks ago the deauocratic members Of the House of Representatives at Washington diagraced the nation's hutaanity by refu.sing to vote money to tharter two ships to send corn to the starviing Ger.man eolonists. The "diplomatic and other ag-ents of the Tepublican administration are doing iill they oan to repair this shameful "vrong."