New-York tribune., 1866-04-28
HUMANE LEGIsLATION.

The armory of laws with which the new Society Zoe
the Prevention of Cruelty to animals is furnished.
may be briefly summarized. ]. An act against tho
confining of live stock for longer period than "a
hours without unloading to eed rest and water during
at least ten consecutive hoursthe forfeit for which
offense is 300 g. An old law against the beating
torturing and manning of horses, cattle, and sheep
especially, with a maximum penalty OF one
years Imprisonment, $3.50 ine or both. j.
section to prohibit tho binding aud crowdips
Of calves and sheep in carts. 4. An act
against tho injuring torturng, manning or kiiiins
of any animal with malice or by neglect D. pro-
vision not to allow dead horses and mules to lie IN tue
streets for more than three hours 8. Against puglsm
or prize.fghting cock-ptng, bull aud bearoaiting.
bsdgerng, dog-fghts and rat-pitS with apunishment
not greater than one year or less than ten days JAIL OF
fine not exceeding 81 900. 7. section as 10 ths
duty Of MAGISTRATES These include, we believe. AL
the laws that will freshly operate in tho reform in
spired BY the Preventive Society, and we are glad 10
observe that prize-fghtng happens by chance 70 oa
reckoned with cruelties to animals Among the IN
corporators of the Society are Mayor Hoffman, Georss
Bancroft, Peter Cooper Henry Grinneli, Gen. DIX.
Bishop Potter, Moses Taylor, wm III. Aspinwau.
wm Cullen Bryant, Judge Daily Frank Leslie. jas
T. Brady Dr. Bellows, Oakley Hall. Commissioners
Acton and Henry DE Berg the last gentleman
prominent mover in the present reform These nsmes
are warrant not only Of its great urgency but thatt
laws which sustain it will have practical effect.
Experience returns us the very trte ru'h that social
amelioration makes slow progress by missions and
volunteering unless aided by law in ths humbier
details There is a proverb-" Take care of tbs
A. Il, ala nf hon
npon which the Board of Health might model another
-.' Take care Of the byways and the highways VIII
take care Of themselves SO, take care OF the brutes
and men will be less brutes than before We know OF
no way of educating men to temperance so ehectuaiy
As By keeping out Of sight extrayagant tempations~
drink All tho sefnterest in the world, stimulates
BY remonstrance, could not avail to prevent cruelty
TO animals to make daily food pureT, and cur daily
forces stronger without humane laws. We make thesS
remarks much for the sake Of those who, in dealing
with labor, temperance, the freedmen, r any other
social idea indferenty surrender everything to ths
incubus that social paganism which steals aud
devours men and babes-a vague, Juggerns1t
law of supply and demand-regardless oil tho
fact that humane legislation is portion oil ths
Just. demand aud supply. Who will deny THAI
Emancipation has made this commonplace truth
more emphatic even to pro-Slavery minds by rescu-
ing the intellect and conscience of men from ths
great dye-vat of Slavery! Supposng Slavery To
have prevailed what would have become Of our
smaller reforms (Which after all, great reforns)
not postponed from councils aud Legislature, from
the Broadway denominations, the alley-slums, milk
distilleries and slaughter-houses generation
hence1 II is worth our while, in a city ruled
as ours, to compare the great facts with small.
and so date from this day progress straightorwardy
social Now if statistics faithfully show that by san
ary care of the city can lessen its mortality Sd
many lives per week. let us believe that the humber
reform of preventing cruelty to animals will somehsr
lead up to lessen murder. The preventionists haso
begun at a good end, while others are working else