Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-25
ON CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

On CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
| Much is now printed in the agricultural
| papers with reference to cruelty to ami
| mails and its prevention, and | regard the
| subject as good, useful and humane one.
| | read the agricultural department of The
| GAZETTE regularly and with much interest,
| for regard it as the best embodiment of
useful agricultural literature for Texas
| that has yet been given to the public in the
! Lone Star state, but so far | have seen
nothing in it on the subject indicated above.
| There is certainly a most prolific field here
| for working up that theme, and | am sure
| it would be a work entirely popular with
all the better class of our citizens. On
| several occasions you have asked for sug
| gestions at the hands of your readers, and
not wishing to find THE GAzETTEs agricul-
tural department behind in anything conf
ing within its line, | would take advan-
tage of your liberality to the extent of
suggesting an occasional article on the pre-
vention of cruelty to animals. And as
starter for you | would mention the recll-
less way some people have of driving their
teams through the streets of Fort Worth.
II certainly involves cruelty TO the teams,
while, at the same time, it is generally dan
gerouS to citizens who happen to be out on
the same public highway. | do not pretend
to assert that the practice is universal
here, yet | must be permitted TO contend
that it is entirely too common and | re-
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drivers are ladies, for they seem to rely on
the usual rights accorded their sex. and
therefore feel that all mankind, without
regard to race or previous condition. ought
to get out of the way when they are abroad
on the fly. CITIZEN.
Fort Worth, Tex.
Anything looking to a lettering of the
dumb brutes conditions in life is always
in order and highly praiseworthy, but,
while we are ourself belonging to a widely
spread and most worthy society organized
for prevention of cruely to animals, and
are strong believer in its principles, we
are yet forced to admit that this work is
sometimes carried little too far by it's
over-zealous devotees, they having made
mistake as to what really is or is not cruel
Of course there are hundreds of cases in
which no mistake could be made, and such
cases are deserving of prompt action, but
as far as relates to this matter of street
driving, in a general way, we are not aware
of an existing cruelty, especially on such
splendid thoroughfares as are many of our
streets in Fort Worth. From time to time
we have noticed certain teams going little
faster than actual necessity would seem to
require, but on no such occasions have we
seen the drivers urging them under the
lash; indeed they were almost invariably
holding their teams back; and from these
facts we could not help concluding that the
little spell of lively moving was as much an
enjoyment to the teams as to the persons in
the vehicles behind them, ard therefore
could scarcely be correctly classed as a
cruelty to the animals. If we are allowed
TO put down the other man on the street as
an animal there may be something of
cruelty to animals in the thing, on some oc-
casions, but that other man has his remedy
in existing ordinances and if he does not ap-
peal to these ordinances for protection the
fault is all his own
As to the ladies God bless them), we are
entirely willing to admit that there is now
and then one among them who when she
drives she driveth furiously, but we can
see no course other than to stand clear and
let her have her own way. If you think
there is really much danger from her
spirited driving we would advise you, as
about the only thing feasible, to make your
will, keep your eyes open and your locomo-
ton machinery in good order, and take your
chances. There would be little to gain
through kicking about it.
Men dying make their will, but wives
Escape a work so sad
Why should they make what all their lives
The gentle danes have had:'
And in any deliberate attempt to wrest
from them their lifelong possessions you
would be very apt to soon find that you had
undertaken to carry on somewhat uphill |
business.
But really il you keep a close watch on
the signs OF the times there need be no
serious apprehensions of danger from the
furious driving o. "my lady" For in
stance, if you are sitting on the head of
fire plug chewing Glove to remove from
your breath, before going home, the odor of |
small cube of switzer cheese masticated |
at a neighboring free lunch counter, and |
you suddenly notice an icecream cake man |
with all possible haste nervously get |
ting his hand-cart from the street to the |
and q peach peddler theoretically |
basting his mule team towards the next |
cross street, and the Old United States pen
sioners scattering off so minus of the usual |
limp or halt in step as to be truly surpris-
ing, and the old Confederate veterans
briskly clawing with both crutches towards
the nearest alley, and cursing in the name |
of the Southern Confederacy, you may well |
know what is coming without further in,S1
vestigation, and so had rest cling to yodr |
fire plug. In a moment the danger Eill |
have passed with all its clatter of horse |