Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-14
lie never fed them ANYTHING but

lie never fed them anything buv
grass and corn in the fodder.
| In view OF all these facts I say
that the treatment that very large
herds Of cattle are receiving at O
distillcry in the suburbs of thi.
city between the Lac N. and l.
8. railroads is n matter that ough,
to be investigated by city aud
county authorities. I do no,
know either to whom the dis
tillery or cattle belong, and have
no most remote personal interest
in the matter.
They are being fed on still slop
and hay, the two being so arranged
as that it would appear that Tho
slop constitutes much, the larger
part of the feed.
In my judgment the manner in
which these cattle are kept is Tia
bic to induce disease in them that
would be liable to be transmitted
to people who eat their flesh.
OF course if the natural food aud
drink of cattle is to eat grass and
grain it can not be natural and
healthful for them to have as their
food and drink a slop which is no
more their natural drink, to say
nothing of their food, than to say
whisky is the natural drink of a
human being; and if they appear
to be fatted at all, the probability
is that the fat is about as much like
the healthy fat of properly fed
bullock, as the bloat of drunkard
is like the fat of healthy man.
There ought to be a man of some
competency to judge such matters
whose business it is to decide
whether such meat should be al.
lowed to be sold in our market and
other markets.
In the lots in which the cattle
are fastened during the rainy
weather lately, there was not one
square yard that was not a mud
hole, and around the trOughs
where the cattle stand to eat the
slop, there are filthy pools of the
overlooked slop in which the cat.
tie stand. 1t is not the nature of
cattle to lie down in mud if they
can avoid it; but these cattle
when they can no longer stand,
have to lie down in such mud as
a hog would not lie in except in
hot weather.
Persons who are familiar with
the handling of cattle soon learn
when they are feeling comfortable
and happy.
Those cattle in those still lots
are the most miserable aggrega-
ton of animals | ever saw.
Refined and cultivaed sensibil
ity, as we see in Burns poems,
makes man sympathize with
suffering animals, and in bad
weather, even under the most ia
vorable circumstances, the sym.
pathy of the right kind of man
goes out to the "silly sheep and
Ourie cattle" that are exposed to
the weather.
The horsemen Of this country
in many instances provide better
beds and rooms for their horses
than thousands of poor people
have, and they claim that human
ity as we'll as interest prompts
them to do 80.
Can such men consistently ig-
more the suffering of these hun
dreds of poor miserable cattle
right here in the suburbs of our
city?
Not only is the sight repugnant
and repulsive to our own eyes,
and gives a bad impression to
strangers who come here, but an
atmosphere is created just at the
most favorable point of the CON-
pass to be waited over the city
by Western breezes pregnant
with all the disease and impurity
that air can absorb, and the
shadow of this distillery throws
across the highway where as
freemen we have an inalienable
right to travel unmolested, a.
poison not only as deadly as the
Upas tree, but as deadly to the
souls of men as the fumes and
vapors that arose from the bot
tomless pit in the Apocalyptic
vision in PatmOs.
l suppose this is but fair
of distilleries. Nothing
but Prohibition will ever beat it.
The DenOueiAeni Of an md Col
lexe Memory.