Daily Republican., 1885-08-27
Tho Dog Question.

was pleased at reading the CON-
munioation In your paper OF SATURDAY.
last, signed Citizen and Republican.
| 1 am glad there Ia onesInore person IL,
l this city, who will come forth fearlesslv
and speak for our faithful dogs, who
cannot speak for themselves, only
through the mute appeal Of the eyes,
which Is understood by those vino have
. kind heart. Where is cur society for
the prevention Of cruelty 10 animals :?
are they afraid to speak ? Will they
allow this work to still 20 on ?-this
Wholesale slaughter of mans most
faithful friend ?-the only animal who
will follow his master all over the
world, and even lay down his life for
him the only animal who refuses food
after the death of his master, and Anal.
ly, after days and weeks of sorrow,
stretches himself upon his grave and
dies from grief for the one who has gone.
VIII one human being evince that
much love for another
Yet in these dull times because per-
sons cannot pay . tax unjustly asked,
the dog must be snatched away, by .
man appointed for that purpose, sim
ply TO put one more dollar into his own
pocket.
One hundred and twenty-five dogs
killed 80 far this month, SIPS in Mr..
Fosters pocket, very good salary.
How much does that benefit the city?
Had they not better save that amount,
and let the dogs live, than to pay that
much money to support one man and
his assistants.
There has not been to my knowledge
one death this year in this city from
the bite of dog. There have been five
deaths at least caused by rum since
he first Of June, two of them muir
|ders.
Yet there is no one 10 catch those who
hand out the maddening fldid; no one
to stop the sale OF it to children
who are sent for it by their parents.
Is it any, wonder crime 10 on the in.
crease?
You can scarcely turn q corner but
what you are confronted by q saloon.
In walking from Sth and West to 8sh
and Market streets, counted six all in
full blast. In walking the distance of
four squares during the day, / saw
four Intoxicated men lying asleep on
door steps. Why were they not put in
to q pound ? They were much more
obnoxious to me than the dogs.
On Sunday afternoon two men went
reeling past me. On Sunday night on
one corner stood four drunken msn and
on another one three Intoxicated women.
Rum traffic Is the curse Of the world
yet our courts license the sale of liquor,
and sanction the sale Of 1t without
license. No one to arrest them they
are the two-legged dealers of deadly
virus. which destroys not only one
Der of the family, but affects the
whole household saps the life of the
mother, puts ths children to shame and
kills the father; oft times maddens
him to murder his family Wage war
against the most deadly poison; let the
lesser evil go. Not one dog in one hum
dred goes mad, but there is about one
man in every ten who becomes q mad
dened brute.
l was surprised at paragraph In Every
Evening of Saturday last, stating that
F." officer Foster states that many people
residing in the vicinity close up their
houses and come up to the pound, and
watch the killing with evident relish"
My! what depraved class must live in
that par. of the cityl Is 1t right TO
maintain such q nuisance, where the
eyes of the young should witness such
sights, and their natures be made more
hardened than they are? No, citizens,
come forth and declare it q nuisance
wherever they 60! What could have
been more barbarous than the killing of
those two Newfoundland dogs, first try
Ing to poison them, then not succeeding,
tying their heads down and shooting
one no less than three times before put
Ting An end to its sufferings.
& is said most of the dogs killed
were worthless. The Newfoundlands
and the two hunting dogs killed about
the same time were not worthless. The
setter taken from Second street was
valuable. would scorn to exert the
the most vigilance where It would
meet with the least resistance.
In the Independent 4th reader, used
in the public schools, this piece every
one should read, where John Godfrey's
dog " as made drunk by his master, but
only once, for ever after, when offered
liquor, he would show his teeth and
Growl, and would never taste IL again,
showing conciusively that dogs have
mere sense than men.
A few words more and have done.
A law should be passed preventing the
sale of tobacco to infants. You can see
the child of six years and upwards
smoking cigarettes and chewing to-
ba eco, laying the seeds OF disease early.
Shame on the man who sells it to
children.
CITIZEN AND DEMOCRAT.
R-