The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1875-01-27
Cruelty 10 AnimOIs-.uoN shall IL nc
Prevented

noNotrt,, Jan 18TH 1873.
Erar,oR OF rNp GAaNr,N -SsNS / am
elaa 10 Scc thc a,dcyr,JS,' diN,ting attention
to Nne 1t the Ereatcs6 ii MT the "brscttins
slN" oCtNe Hawaiian lSNoplS athelrsNstenatic
c,Vc)N aci NhVmao Sa,OiWtj 10 tbclr HORSES,
| / think yyN har,N as VIII Noar ,cteyn,NosN,>,
Written N,Noe tins saNSc,, 6etO,,N but M steps
have tIN taken b pN, sNp ~ the daiN IN.
stances NJ cvSe,CN Nea or,,gssstoN that y,y,Nt
7 IN oNr midst,
An "AeI Nr the pgevpNtle,O" Nv, ia said
II exist, eW il has Neel,, ana is, practically a
"aeAa le,ierIN NJ SSslslNRoe has eeeN MS
RIVED ROv NeeA any he eNpeV,e,L 0Nm the NJ
/ ljce in this mAJteA ana INDEED the NetloN and
experience oE ether cogNtHes show us that the
only effective method Of dealing with the
question is by the formation Of sooiety
elected fSNm the ci6peAs, independent ami en-
powered to deal with it outside Of the police
authorities In the name Of Christianity and
humanity, which are both outraged to fright
fNl extent by large proportion Of The native
people and eondoned by the noR-interierenoe
of their foreign teachers and guardians let us
have some such institution established here
which will at once commence to sweep away
such scenes of feroeious brutality as are con-
stantly before our eyes, and which may not be
witnessed in any other country with far less
pretensions TO civilization than are claimed for
Hawaii mel. The criminal disregard and neg
lect evinced by the native towards so valuable |
beast is as strange as the manner in which |
they pamper their filthy and abominable ours. |
Precept and example are not wanting on the |
part of the foreign population who are humane
and thoughtful to a degree of their fourfooted |
friends, and if such paople can't be led they |
must be driven from their place amongst the
brute creation by the energetic action of
society for the prevention of cruelty to ami
mails. There are none too high or too low to
help this matter forward,
The quality of mercy strained it drOppeth as the
gentle dew from heaven, upon the flowers bsneath'-
1t should commend itself to the clergy as well
as the lay portion of the community, and
the pulpit could have few nobler themes than
may be drawn from "Man's inhumanity to
man" and brute
think it is hardly necessary in this to cite
examples, or point to individual cases of cruel
ty / shudder as think of some that have
seen, which almost makes me waver in my
faith, and hold opinion with Pythagoras that
the souls of animals infuse themselves into the
trunks of notwithstanding sores, naked under
a monday sun; poor creatures with fetid
blood and matter running in streams from be-
meath their saddles and down their quivering
tanks, above which sits probably 200 lbs. of
g Darwinism" urging the poor martyr to a
hand gallop for perhaps day together, to
turn adrift by the road side or on an arid plain
to undergo the fortunes of Orestes; decrepit
weaklings, the offspring of neglect and i'll
usage bestridden by huge mountains of flesh,
n the proportion of 800 to 500 lbs. of horse
% $50 to $50 lbs. of flesh: vehicles crowd
ID, drawn by an apology: ROsinantes so
aden with fre-vood, bananas, &C., that an
,ther straw would surely break their backs f
ct out for hire and galloped from morn to t
hight without food or water, girth CALLED, sore u
,acked, lame, andsome that would infict last
ng degradation upon the proprietor of any tan
ard they were seen to enter. Who Will take
he lead in the formation of such society =? !
lere is work indeed for such one, and 1 am o
mistaken if the foreign population do not lib il
rally provide the necessary funds. would
uggest few of the duties that should be un- n
ertaken;- f'
LIST. The prosecution of all persons native or ). :
oreign riding or driving horses with sores of .
ny description, particularly on the back II
End. All owners of overloaded vehicles.
3rd. The search for decrepit and useless ami K
lals, and their destruction Ia
4th. The examination of all horses owned cl
v the native liveries.
5th. careful watch held over those sus- y
ected of ill-treating or depriving their ami !,
lals of proper sustenance. Ii
9Th. The overlooking of pack animals. Of
Twas told only the other day by friend of lii
line who hired a horse from native, that the 81
east being saddled and brought to him, he >
lounted and proceeded on his journey, shortly
oming to a swollen creek he prepared to ford :,
when, as he graphically described the oc- Al
urrence, q took off the saddle andAe UboIe
1ok Of The horse came of l0ih a!'' This, Sir, vi
no farfetched OF isolated case. to
do hope that yourself and your cotempo-
NY will follow up this matter until something
done to eradicate the growing evil, and that (
bier hands than mine viii lay hold and lay