The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-09-02
CRUELTY 10 ASfs1AIs
a Case Mt the Picnic saturday,-A citizen.

9liEs{s3IIFT. DutysRIit w y l-l1lt
Among the Consequently at the Fair
Grounds yesterday was n X fakir with a
monkey, the latter being made TARGET for
balls at. the hands OF those who delight 10
inilict misery and Gull II fun. The animal
tho monkey, not the fakir, was confined
10 d stake by 4 small cord and five cents
was. charged for three throws Mt him with
tho balls, d cigar being given to the throw
or each time the monkeywas struck. The
Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty TO
Animals should have stopped this sport"
TO The Editor u The Iuicliomcer. t.ljtlI g 5
Sln;-The above was clipped from lust
Sundays Nt,t, Letter, and the question We
ask Is why did not tho person who furnish.
cd tho above, article notify tho officers OF
the Humane Society of this BRUTAL
Sport? Tho society has taken great
pains, and gone to considerable expense,
10 inform the public where It's officers arc
TO be found, by distributing largo and con.
spicuous cards In the most prominent
wards, where telephones are placed,
! through which complaints OF cruelty to
children and animals may be commune
Gated to headquarters. II tho person who
furnished the paper with the t,item," had
telephoned to the headquarters Of thc
Humane Society, tho BRUTAL Sport
would have been stopped Just us speedily
us MI officer could have been sent TO the
place. The individual could have
stopped It himself, by speaking 10
the pcrpctmtor, and warning 4 him
that lie WINS violating the Inv, ) by
his nnjnsitiab!o cruclty-org II he hail
called polieeman's attention to the
matter, it would have been stopped. It is
the object of the society to put stop TO
NIL cruelty, and the officers desire to be
notified OF nil cases'in time, to stop them,
not uhcn il is loo late. H.. 1qL'
The only good that could accrue from
publishing tho above was lost BY with
holding the name Of the perpetrator. Our
citizens IRE by FIR too Indifferent In the
matter Of reporting cases OF cruelty, com
ing under their notice., They seem to
think 1t none of their business, but il Is
the business OF every individual TO help re-
form and drive out evils existing In our
city. f'a.&'i 5.5.,.ii E E, r. III. III
The West Virginia Humane Society
have no salaricd officers, and they have
paid literally from their own pockets for
the support Of this good work. They have
not called upon the citizens for aid Tor two
years. The only persons who receive
compensation for their services arc the
constables, detectives and agents who arc
sent. to do special work, or investigate
cases OF cruelty reported TO the society.
| All the officers and Board of Managers
give valuable time and labor to tho work
gratuitously and laye done SO during the
two and half years OF its existence. 1t
has been said by some shat they never
hear OF anything the society is doing"
Let them interest themselves, and report
cases OF cruelty, instead Of looking on
and doing nothing, or let them 20 to head
quarters and read the Journal Of the So
cicty" and they will learn that the Society
for the Prevention OF Crueltyto Children
and Animals, has done and is doing Il great
humane work in our, midst, and every
man and woman in the county ought 20
encourage and help support it. Hereafter
let us have the report OF cruel acts in time
to prevent or stop them, not niter it is too
late. JOIN L. SMITH, NJ. d.,
President VA. Humane Society.
/ lVheeliny September l.