Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
Humanity and Health Movement.

The Mission for Animals, a society
whose object is to establish more hu--
name, healthful and economical meth,
DDS of transporting and dealing with
live-stock-to quote from the Secre-
tary's statements sending abroad for
signatures a petition to Congress for a.
system of Government inspection to that
end, and an appeal for money to prose-
cute their labors; answers to be sent
to Loring Moody, Secretary, 8 Hamil-~
ton Place, Boston. This is a cause in
yolvine both humanity and health, and
no one can say that effort in it's behalf
is not needed. But it ought to take a
different direction. There Is a certain
broad convenience in having the nation,
appoint special police, as these in
spectors would be, and Congress, being
one body, is more easily reached than
twenty Legislatures. But the Govern
ment is in too many OF these matters OF
domestic regulation already. The So
ciety wants an inspector stationed
IN every livestock center:
but healthy animals, and the abuse,
suffering and waste to the railroads,
drovers' and dealers treatment of them.
IL lSo vail u law III COhSASbo W. SSAA
pei railroads to give stock-strains the
preference over any other freight trains,
and prohibit them from leaving such
trains standing on side tracks. 1t will
want a dozen or so other laws after
that. All this is without the real prov
ince of Congress; it is not a national
matter, nor can it rightly be made SO.
ssThe Mission for Animals :" should
80 r,sfu IN tho rarinyIc States and cat tho
laws of each one of them straight on
this point; then get such special priv
ileges for their own agents as the kim
dred society for the prevention of cru
city has obtained; and see that the
statutes are enforced. Its objects ought
to be achieved, and that IS the right way
to do it.
We all know what the abuses are this
society desires to end, and we all know
more or less of the way in which peo-
pie have to pay for the inhumanity by
disease and death. The Boston and
Albany Railroad receives thousands of
cattle through the whole length of the
State, in trains of cars that are obvi-
ously uncomfortable and exhausting at
the best, and often murderous; as when
the beasts freeze in winter nights or
sicken in summer heats, or are suffo-
Gated or mangled in over-crowding.
This circular mentions such sights as
an OK that had his head caught between
the TANKS of two Others, and, in his
struggles to get it up, had forced a norm
into the bowels of each of the others
several inches, every effort he made
goring deeper, of course; this was at
Chester, % miles west OF this city.
Sheep and pigs are often trampled and
soffocated to death in these cars.
Drovers brag of their smartness in run
ming cattle five days without feeding
without water for several days. One
drover shipped a hundred oxen in Ken
lucky weighing an average of 1,50O'
pounds each, and when they reached
New York, the averagewa 300 pounds
"a pretty bad shrinkage.
The dead, sick and manned are to a
large extent dressed by butchers and
sold for food, and many that are too far
gone to pass eff in that way aye made
up into sausages. The majority of the
butchers and market-men in this city
have, we believe, indicated themselves
from completely in such vile and dan
gerous imposition on the community,
but we a%pprehend that here, as in Pitts
field and other places, sickness from
eating diseased meat is 0 uncommon.
These offenses are the subject Of penal
statutes in this and other States, which
ought to be s~trenuously enforced. Be-
sides estimating the loss in the wasting
of animals, their death en- route, the
damage to hides, etc, at 500, 000, 600 or
so annually, and the number of cattle,
sheep and hogs that die in transit in a
single year at 6OC, O00-this circular de-
clares that 'as a consequence" of con-
sumption of diseased meat, the death
rate is increasing in States that contain,
the livestock routes, Massachusetts.
among them. This is a violent assump-
ton, and the Mission for Animals, or,
any other society or person, can not
have statistics to justify it.-SprtngfslG
(MGss.) Republican.