, 1874-04-18
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

70 the Editor Of The Chicago Tribune:
61n: Many thanks for your timoly md
tronchant article in this mornings TRIBUNE in
relation to tho brutal exhibitions OF last week in
Indi ana. It has been said TINT tho civilization
Of people ia boHt shown In its treatment Of
its dumb organts. Judged by this standard,
ia not our co unsry lagging terribly behind; aud
would it not he we'll for Christianity, in It's pull
pits, to raise its voice against 'our wicked bar-
barisn?
The question has boon aalscd more tllan onco,
When some act Of cruelty has come before tho
notice Of tho public, where ia the Humane So-
cioty but think II people know how litto
tpBa to Bans | t i Tea espsa oE quite sot f'aa y
funds, and is only ablo to employ two
officers for tho ontire city (ono always at tho
Btook-Yarda), and needs at least twenty or thirty.
Personally DO not think It has tried to give it's
It should have done, but if tho press will give its
holp. this mattor will certainly soon bo ACCOM-
plshed. Who ever speaks TOR it ?E3..1 certainly
never, never heard any ons In nearly niaotoon
single sermon to 30 preached on behalf Of fair
treatment Of our dumb servants. Sermons, lcc-
tures, and pamphlets enough md to sparo. on
the subjects Of crime and for and against the
which lies at the very root nt these things Chill
dren are allowed to grow up Indifferent and
thus caous to pain aud suffering inflicted on tho
brute creation, and our ,sta6bings and mur-
may think these romarka quite uncallod
for, sensational, InAudl1n, sentimental, and 30
on: will state q fnct or two and leave them to
judge. d friend OF mine found in an alley in
this city poor old horse, which had boon turned
waB surrounded by boys who wore digging their
knives into It, they lnd dug out its eyo, q wagon
hnd gone % eyer its legs, and It was covered with
HifY11t ufr tfy nr3 liant
of until tho agent Of tho Humane Society waa
found, who at once ended its misery. The owner
was found aftor hard searching; 10 tried hard to
escape ali punishment, but tinding tho road a
at about the same time auot1er horse vas
found by the Same person in vpcant lot near
her house, dying, and. IL being Sunday, she
thought 1er soul was being best attended to
Curing for its wants was done by herself and her
two Children until doath relieved tho animal from
its suffering. Iheao arc dreadful things to tell
but they happon, It is no use running away
from thcm; the OWL exists and must be facod
We arc oach ono OF us responsiblo, and re can
not shirk tho fact, and, If all, or small part Of
MI, did their duty, such things could not be. /
am often, soul and body, sick Mith what I SEQ
made worae BY. the utter indifference ot really
good aud kind people, people who would not
up;nE4ecesssarily. me o. hurt . living thing.
lives Wo MAKE 20 miserable, blinded by ono con-
tinual labor with brutal whipping for m almost
regular dict !; then, when past 1abor, turned out
to die. Money has boon made Of them, and
that accms to '.bo all that IL NECESSARY.
I neyor see cruelty but 1 foel ashamed
Of Chicago {and mover run from it but do mr.
best to try and stop it). and yet IT people only
cared, our city could be an example In this mat
ter. These horrible dog and chicken fights arc
only part,-would to God tAey were tho only
aad thlnga. Tho mon who do these aolB ought
to be punished very sovercly, but We shall neyor
haHo botter state of thingH until every minis
enough to heart to try and properly educate the
Eouls placed under their charge. anil for which
thev arc responsible. hfEs. @. ". Ross.
CHICAGO, April IL, 1871,