The morning call., 1891-08-21

first big slaughter-house on the bridge to-
ward which lie bent his steps had a big
crowd of workers in the doorway. 1t was
an opportune moment. They were taking a
needed rest before going TO business. A few
minutes later they DOTTED their coats and
went to work.
An explanation was volunteered of the
cutio2s, even while the visitor picked his
way over floor slippery with the blood OF
slain cattle. You see" said the spOkes-
man of the party, that bullock is not ex-
actly like log Of wood. You have heard
of the word, kicking like steer Now,
when we raise the sliding door leading from
the catte-pen into the slaughter house, it
isn't to say that the steer we want is coming
easy. There isn't great deal OF time to
lose either, and If, as sometimes happens. a
steer makes a rush before the man at the
barrier can drop the lassO over his horns,
there is only one thing TO be done: He
makes a signal 10 the mau at the windiass
and it is try, try again.
Now, suppose another thing. Some
times two steers get laSsoed at the same
time and out they come together through
the barrier, and then there is a peck of
trouble. And that isn't all If the lasSo
drops IN the right place, well and good; out
comes the steer, and in short account he IS
handed down 10 the ring. Then the
Slaughterer takes his pole-aX and does the
business in one. TWO, three fashion, with as
many strokes of the pick. just as soon as
the pick penetrateS the skull all conscious
ness Is over and the animal is bed TO death
without suffering the least pain. Even
when the head Is cut off few minutes later,
the struggles of the carcass which some
times occur are not due 10 pain; they are
simply coutracti0ns of the muscles and
what remains of the irritability of the
heart"
Then why the prosecutions?
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you. There are always bUsybOdies around
pOking their heads into matters they don't
understand. l vas trying to tell you exactly
how the charges occurred. Once IN while
bullock is not caught fairly by the lasso :;
perhaps 1t only goes Ground one horn, and
lie gets room to wriggle around consider
ably. Once out of the pen and into the
slaughterhouse there is only one thing to
be done, TO get him hauled down TO the ring
and Kill him as quickly as possible. If he
Is fairly laSSoed over both horns this Is easy,
but II anything fails the man with the pick
IS liable to strike the bullock in part of
the skull where 1t is almost impossible to
reach the brain. lthas happened more than
once that blow of the AK has detached Il
horn or splintered the bone over portion
OF the skull where there is no brain just
beneath. Killing bullock isn't any child's-
lay. Now, take the Jewish way. Acct
dents have occurred down here several times
when bullocks have been slaughtered for
Hebrews by their own people"
Being asked to explain, the slaughterer
went on: We'll, the Jewish method differs
from ours. They string the live bullock up
| by the hind legs, and while the animal is
plunging the kosher cuts his throat with a
knife about half yard long. In the strug-
giles of the beastlt has often occurred that
not only the animal but the bystanders have
been wounded with knife"
There is 70 truth then in the story that
oxen have been cut, pierced in the eye and
goaded with axes or other instruments by
impatient slaughterers
Why should there be any truth? All
that the Straightforward wants is to dispatch
the animal as quickly as possible. If dyna-
mite or electricity would do the business