Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1880 — A Quaker’s View. [ARTICLE]

A Quaker’s View.

Mr. John G. Whittier, replying so an invitation to be present at a meeting for the relief of Irish distress, writes: “ Starvation cannot be argued with; the gaunt specter cannot be laid by speeches and resolutions. We must share our abundance of bread with the hungry. We are a great brotherhood, children of Him whom our ancestors called, the All-Father, and it is not for us to ask the old question of Cain: ‘Am Imy brother's keeper?’ ” Tbe Sultan of Turkey expends sl2.* 001,000 a year keeping up hi# haute hold.