Why Rich People Don't Donate to a Charity

At the height of the famine, it was the Irish who sent money to the Pope. In 1849, the Pope was on the run because Republican forces had temporarily driven him from the Vatican. To judge from a letter to the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Murray, this appeal must have realized much more than the Pope's gift of a thousand pounds. One of the more interesting donors is Sultan Abdul Masid of Turkey; he fills five boats with grain and he sends them to Ireland at his own expense.