New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-05
MERcYS APPkAL 10 TIE stomach.

PRESENT NODES OF CATTLE TRANSPORTATION cEUft
TO ThE BEASTS AND EUiAoUs 10 TnE HEALTH
OF THOSE WHO Raj THEM
TO the EditOr Of The rrtbVHe.
SIR: II ls very easy to lind fault with Mr. Bergh,
and il is amusing to see o tender-hearied woman
canso the arrest Of csuniryman Cor driving lame
horse aud then pay the ne herself because the man
Is poor but when the Grs- attention a new Admin
istfation IL fastened upon hogs. and two c"nti-
nents are flashing back and forth under the sea
the statistics Of diseased pork She question becomes
plainly not one of Uncut only. but OF sanitary
science and sound economy a. well. The condition
of animal transportation IA disgraocin ahke 10 our
humanity and our intelligence. There wero shipped
last year from II. Louis and Chicago 10 Eastern
sesboard citIes over 10000 carload OF cattle hnd
hogs. part for export hut by far the larger part
for home consumption. Nuc-teutAs Of the
entire lot are said 10 have been confined
from forty-Gve to seventy hours without
food or drink The iamished. fcversh, frightened
condition IN which this living load reached IFS Jonr-
neys end may be easily imagined Animals when
before transportation were regularly aud carefully
fed. wa,errd aud sheltered. are reduced to frenzy
aud despair by being suddenly driven into new,
clos and uncomfortable quarters subjected to pro-
trsctod, strange aud wIiderng motion aud cut oil
utterly and cruelty from food and drink. These
animals human IN thclf trIt"T' hti'"ushes-'
homesickness, and in the reaction Of all tbs woe
npon their physical condition. They arrive Mt their
destination after this severe suffering Just unfit
70 eat q. q soldier after a similar experience Is un-
fl for action. It Is not only that this
violent aud barbsTous process runs their
wOrol, and lays them open To the attacks
of ,leuro-pneumonia and every other form Of
cat,l. disease: il Is not only that the best and
swoet..t part OF tho meat "a vested by shnnkage
though th,si estimated at loss OF fromfort tos1y
dollars uoou each carload making the total amount
Of pocket-loss upon animal suffering something like
three millions a year: bat it is that he meat which
is left ana which we do eat ia an unsavory and
unwholesome IL not q positively poisonous, snb-
stance.
The poor. tottering. trembling creature which
survives his Black Hole is immediately thrown upon
the market aud avenges himself upon his human
brotherhood by spreading Out his broed nervous-
ness, bis roasted terror his steued starvation, his
fried fever upon every dinner table in the COM
muniy The dumb torture which has been going
on for years have refused to heed. We have neg
lected to prevent But all these years we
have not refused neglected TO eat it, This
tagged fesh this de uoralzed. dshsartened diseased
meat, we have been distributing through own
tagging brains and laggard stomschs, and rheu-
maic limbs. instead of the fresh, arm. tender and
JUICY meat which in the only proper nutrmeut for
thorough recreation On the whole the beasts have
the better Of II. They endure few days Of agony.
and the nercfu cleaver comes 70 their relief. But
the dy speTsia tho nausea, the scrofula tho BRAIN
worry and blood p0lsoning they leave behind among
the myriads Of their deyourers are not measured ey