Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-27
DOG DOSERS.
President Hadden's Arrest said by Mr..
Lane to Have Been Insisted Upon
by Numerous People

W NunCAVuo CVptC
Because He Allows the Police to Deal
Out Stryehnine TO Wandering Ours
divers Dog Dots.
IS it true that you intend to make war
on dog poi-oners~ was asked yesterday of
Mr.. Lane, of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Auimals.
'PIl tell you how stand" said Mr.. Lane.
MY society lie agains, it for several reasons.
In the fret place it is cruel. In the next
place it is likely 10 produce serious results
where the victim goes home TO die"
"You meau then that poisoning dog is
cruelty TO those to whom il .belong-"
''Yts. 1t is often the case that the poison
fails to take effect al once, and the poor
brute goes home, perhaps to die ia convul-
sions 10 The midst OF those who have fondled
and loved and led it ThGs II is no. only
cruelty to the blu bu. to man"
Bot il il not a TACT that instant death Cd
sues whenever the poison is properly admip-
isiereG?"
THAT NAV be; but great many dogs live
hours after they are poisoned"
Have you determined to make arrests Tor
tbis?"
Several prominent Front street men have
asked me TO do 60, and a plumber iusist that
it is my duty
ITO ARREST PRESIDENT MADDEN
FOR giving the order 10 poison the dogs. l.
is true the city has an ordinance providing
TN vagrant dogs shall b. destroyed but it
is yet to be decided whether it is allowable
10 use cruelty to execute the law. The pc
lie, don't care to deal out the buttons. They
are eli tender hearted men,"
do you think this reluctance is owing lC
their sofl-heartedness or TO dislike to bring
odium upon Themselves"
II think they have conscientious scruples
sg .inst it."
A policeman who stood near coughed very
hard at iris reply, and tried to look mighty
benevolent.
"What you ;nink should be done with
them?n
Shooting ia
BETTER THAN POISONING,
and a much quicker death. TDey tel! me
am a number one shot, as l never fail with
"But all policemen cannot shoot so we'll.
Oos of them threw his pistol away the other
day after emptyiug the contents inio the at
mosphers surrounding a sleeping cur, and
then killed it with brick. Wouldn't you
suggest bricks"
"No, bullets. Let the policeman who ia
selected be good shot, and give him nothing
to 90 but shoot dogs."
'But suppose he Kills somsbodyw
"Then LET min hang."
tHanoin0 dnf sn't roma under vour liss of
cruelties, then. So rather than have a few
dogs die in commissions you would risk the
lives of
1.-TWO HUMAN BEINGsp
"But the policeman has no business TO
shoot any body. He must make no blunders."
"How about the noise and excitement such
a course would cause on the stTeets?"
"Well, on the whole, l think better plan
would be to lasso the dogs and drown them.
Drowning il the most d lightful of all
dsalhs," said MIR. Liue. "They shou b.
caught with wire loops, put in cages and
held under the water until they are drowned
They might be KEEP Ter day or two after
being captured, 30 that the owner Of any
valuable dog in the collection nigh, have
au opportunity to redeem 1t. While the
practice of poisoning exists, and ia recog-
uized by law, chance for good deal of
a spite sgain.t his neighbor, or thief who
waols TO prepare the way TO break in, may
poison good dog and lay 1t on tue police"
DEAD DOGS ARE GOOD.
any opinion is, the only good dogs are
dead ones" put in a listener. The quickest
and easiest way 10 ct rid OF dog is to
poison him. Pm tired Of sll this continental
rot about doge diving delightful death.
Al. l. ha E(t0 in, r.oio
in Fort P. ckering, and they bark and whine
all night long. just let goose or duck or
chicken get out Of she ysrs and a pack nf
hungry ours pounce on il and devour it be-
fore yeu can shake a stick. They ate a
chicken this morning that intended 10 have
for my breakfast. They de nobody any good
good and are perpetual source Of annoy
ance and dread For my part would like
to see every one of them dead. Dogs have
no business 10 a civilized community"
"Thaps me-" Mr.. Lane INTERCEPTED. 81
would like to have all the dogs swept from
the face of the earth and nice gentle lambs
put in their places. Lambs don't bite"
PECULIAR STATEMENT.
"Aud they don't have hydrophobia"
'sNeither do the dog4," said Mr. Lane. All
this talk about dogs going mad has no
foundation 10 fact. There have bsen but Que
years. The stories you hear are ABOUT like
the tales of ghosts--svery body hears bu nc
body sees one. You see hydrophobia is very
much like diphtheris," said Mr.. Lane
learnedly. A worm forms under the tongue
the pain ruas the poor dog distracted" Mr..
Lane failed to follow up this branch of the
subject, and concluded by saying he had no
wish to puuish anyone for dog poisoning, but
would like 10 get up an agreed case TO test
the validity of the law under which the p,lice
are now acting.
SOMETHING TO THE POINT.
"Let me say word before you CO." ex-
claimed man who had been attending
closely t. the conversation. "Iu plain terms
no man, woman or brute should be allow, d
10 exist that does not earn a living. The
street loafer no more deserves TO exist than
the meanest cur that goes yelping through
the streets. There is only one condition upon
which l am willing the useless shalI live,
and that is that they eat others who refuse 10
accept the terms offered Let the live loafrrs
eat the dead dogs, and let the live dogs de-
YOUR the dead loafers. The law ought 10
be amended 80 as TO take 10 the man WHO
lives BY free lunch served at a counter, as we'll
as The cur who takes it served in the gutter
The day may come when we will reach the
men with s'uff-d puppies, or We may at
least get close enough to it to prepare them
for the losfers. They burn a whole house
there 10 rosst a pig, they say, asd though l
do not know Of any house here worthless
enough 10 burn to roast a losier, some KIDD
CT chesp CT. m aiory for his especial BEN fit
should be invented. There should be no
burdens, and for my part, | am in favor OF
the Indian plan of knocking the old onts in
the head with stuffed club when they be-
come so aged AZ to be OF no
use to themselves or their feiow,.
There are dogs that earn living, but they
are precious few. To these my remarks 10
not, of course, apply, but take The great mass
OF bowling, hungry brues that prorl the
streets at all hours of the day ADD uight,
seeking whom ami what they may devour,
ard the only question that remains is what
is the quickest and mos! ffsc;ual way TO dis
pose OF them?"
Meantime the scsvenger is siiil plying bis
trade, though it seems that very little head
way is b-iog made. The streets are througed
with vagraut dogs, and their number seems
to increase instead of diminish. Very few
muzEles are seen. 1t might Re added that