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India’s Famine and Plague

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 31, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 44.

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India’s Famine and Plague

A report from Bombay states that the immediate prospects for relief of the famine conditions in India are none too bright, for next year's crops have already been sold to exporters, thus reproducing the anomaly witnessed in Ireland in 1848, when the starving population saw ship-loads of corn exported from Cork to the more lucrative markets of England. Thus the unhappy people will experience small profit from the crops that will be harvested. Trade interests in these days take precedence over those of humanity. A recurrence of the plague is looked for soon, as the season for it is approaching.