The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-03-27 00:00:00

Corrtspont mu.

CRUELTY AND THE CAUSE 011 IT.
To Me Editor.

Sir,—There are, I trust., few of your readers who
do not thoroughly approve the opinions of tee writer
who, under " Odds and Buds," in your issue of last
week, oonsistently and logically protested against the
creel barbarism of other " sport' besides pigeoa
maiming and pigeon shooting.
Toe only crones., pretext for exclu ling the hunted
and agonisingiy-tortored deer or stag from the Bill
for the amendment of the Acts relatiog to cruelty is
that, as the legislature is now c instituted, usage wouti
be little or no chance of securing even the small
modicum of humanity arid justice sought for by its
operation ; if the Bili also demanded the protection
of deer and hares. And herein, sir, I, for on., h 4.1
Lb. condemnation of the able system of educotion
(as it prevail. alike iu our private and our public
school.) to be clearly demonstrate I. Could human
beings becoms so callow. and iodiff-reot t• the
sufferings and tortures of innocent beings—the victims
of human tyranny and human selfl.hnwe —if our
schoolmasters and others, who have the instruction
of the young entrusted to them, had done, or were
doing, their duty No I answer most emphatic al? ;
It would be iniposelbli; that the repreeentativea—
supposed repremotatives—of the feeling of the country
could, dating all them leing years of shameful atrocities
and cruelties of all kinds, perpetrated whether against
lawaseat beaten or against (and Mill more helpless) ,
sion.Ausessa being., have sat, aersion anew session,
insensible to the agonising cries of "those that have !
no helpers." It would be Impossible, I fearlessly
repeat, that such monstrous selfishness could dominate
In the legislature, if those who have had the control
of the education of the coantry had in the least striven
to inculcate the principles of a true morality—a true
religion—the obligation of universal justice and
universal commosion.
Whoa the indignant denunciations of torture,
cruelty, and injustice (of which the subject species
have been always the victims), by non• Christian
writers,—e.g., a &nice or a Plutarch—be remembered,
it is considered that some eighteen centuries ego
these humane teachers protested vehemently against
these illoCkieg barbarities; that such more thoughtful
writers as hioutaigne, three centuries ago, spoke of
deer-hunting in particular a. an outrage up in common
humanity. When, I sae, one thinks of these facts,
and looks around one at the present moment, one
might be tempted almost to believe that the world
has been standing still, as far as the recognition of
the rights and status of the wom-kllll{lll races are con-
cerned at all events. . _

What, I mak, would lisuica, or Plutarch, or
Montaigne say or think If he knew what is gm
vim on in this year "of grao, " 1883? If he could
know the frightful atroafties of the experimental
torturers (onnotonly called vivisectionists) perpetrated
under the protection of the laws, in all the labors'
torte" of Europe? If he were to be introduced into
our dens of slaughter—especially in the metropolis—
aeresuffuttpy isotisttrhiey un,iluomewnorldbuunfelt fnian or thre, cruel
gluttony 1 what would Plutarch, who wrist, in the
true humanitarian spirit his admirable essay (so little
regarded by our guides and teachers of the pressed
day) specially against the cruelties of the slaughter-
house, think or say if, by lame miracle be were to
001116 to life, and learn that all these monstrous
cruelties and barbarians have been practised during
the eighteen Christian centuries, and ars still
',motioned by the teacher" of religion I—Faithfully
yours,

A HUMANIT/

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