The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-31
N. 7. KEY, INTERVIEWER,
TELLS THE STORY OF HIS Elk.
PERIENCK IN
Washington as the Agent Of the Hu-
name Society, and Gives Point
ers fer the Memphis Society.

A reporter OF thu APPEAL inter-
viewed Mr.. M. P. key, agent Of the
Humane Society, Washington, yestsr-
day, as to the mathods Of york that
there have produced such marked
success, and with the following re-
suit:
The APPRAL reporter asked Mr..
Key how public opinion was changed
at the national capital from opposition
to support Of the Humane Society,
and he answered:
Three years ago, when I began work
as the agent OF the Society for the Pre-
vention Of Cruelty to Animals, OF
Washington, ID. O., we were despised
and hated by all the coarse element,
and many OF our best business men
had no respect for US, and for nearly
q year this order Of things existed,
until / saw that our enemies were
more right than wrong, and that they
were not fighting the principles OF the
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty
to Animals but It's fanatic and senti-
mental theories. So moved to the
higher and nobler sphere: 1t 10 right
and honest TO care for and protect
your animals that are daily doing your
labor and supplying you with food and
rsiment. and from universal demand,
to show our faith by our works, l be-
gan the erection OF drinking fountains
for horses, aud solicited half the
money from the owners OF horses, all
OF whom we had prosecuted for cruel
ty to animals, for their erection.
Many OF them gave ~ SIS each, and
In little while the whole opposition
was changed to one OF support and
respect, until today we number nearly
400 members. The vicious asknowl-
edge that we ars pursuing the right
course, while the business man says
we cannot do without tho society, and
therefore must supportit. A few days
before / left w. ]. published card
that ii anyone would donate $40 for a
certain kind OF drinking fountain for
animals as Christmas present that
would add So more, as that was the
price, and the next morning one OF
our good ladies', not one OF our men,
beis, came to our office and gave the
amoont. 1 will add, Mesrs. Editors,
that II any OF your good people wish
to make like donation to your socie-
ty for the benefit OF those mules and
faithful servants of man, / will not
only give SIS but pay the freight from
Washington to Memphis for the same
pattern fountains. l have recon.
msndsd to our society to give silver
medal 10 any man who has worked
one horse continually for fifteen years,
q gold medal for twenty years, and q
diamond medal for working horse
for twenty-five consecutive years, and
a short time ago they voted to give a
gold medal to captain Of. canal
boat on the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal for his humane treatment OF
four mules for nineteen years, they
not having lost day on &C.
count OF sickness, lamenes5 or
gals, this man not being the owner.
The announcement that this cap
tain was to receive a gold medal from
the Humane Society OF Washington
aroused epiiit Of rivalry among ell
the canal boatmen, and Is doing much
more good than all the prosecutions
we have done since our organization.
No, we have received no large do
nations or bequeats; in fact, Henry
BeIgh, OF New York, 10 the only man
who does, for the general idea seems
to prevail that we have two Presidents
Ia the United States, Grover Cleve-
land being the President Of the peo'
pie and Henry Bergh being the Presi'
dent Of the animals, and with this i'm.
preston Washington man gave Mr.
Bergh $40, 900 by bequest last fall.