New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-28
ANOTHER STEP IN THE DOG ChOSAOH

lust as we predicted week ago, the agi'a'i'n
AGAINST Bookkeeping is spreading oIar,ihs !"
Connecticut it has already reached MaSSa'nu
COTS that fostering home of new movements "a
stil, more ominous sign for the dogs Is 'h"0 ~
Is a woman who has now taken up VIC WIN
A H. is the women who are the most INDUSTRIOUS
and uncompromising workers against rum 81 ~
will no the women who will battle the hos'
s-., .aairst doos. Indeed we fancy 1t
,,,onId no possibe to show that this has been the
case with the majority of great reforms-that soie
go, hoe startled them, but that they have been
horro onward TO success by the enthusiasm OF
,,omor, Slavery owed it's downfall largely to the
,ork of women: she has fought rum until to-day
I, may bo said 10 be on its last legs; In lew
Gears dogs won't have any legs left at all, ana
vomen will be entitled to the greater part OIL Tie
honor we doubt not. .,
Mr. Norton. of Mt. Carmel, Conn, who started
the total abstinence in dogs movement couPieu
tho keepinC of the animals with druhkehn'''
Ia nrorosed TO give fifty bushels of apples 10 any
family that did not use Intoxicating ii4uo,' "
keen dog. We have already chrohicieu ms
coed succcss-of how in nearly every case he
hoard smothered banks coming 1rom Vic ""
after he COZ the apples unoaded. NOT Id '".'
the worst it is now known that hall OF Uie iami-
es have ground their apples up into ciuer anu ".'
now sitting about with their dogs warning ior ~ "
become hard" But we wish to speak Oh .he GA
mansion of the movement. This Is repol.eu i'"'
Wilmington, Mass, and Miss Sapra C"l'ei' @
benevolent lady Of some seventy years. is
BILE for it. Miss Carter has given large ailoun'
~ soc,, in several banking and manufacturing In
s,,,utions 70 the town of Wilmington. the income
from this stock to be used for the painting OF
Of fhnsQ
eor IL ~ nroyided that those who apply " do not
keep dog and have not kept one ior TWO sesi9'
and have been members Of temperance society
for the same period oil tihe' al" "ie h'' IA viz
personal use Of tobacco"
Here we again see the Keeping of dog classed
with the use of liquor Indeed, the restrictions
which Miss Carter throws around her housepalnt
arc much the same as those with which MIR. Nor
ton hedged in his winter apples. But the lady
aoes slightly further and makes her conditions
retrospective, barring all persons who have
bccn cursed with dog at any time
during the last two years Something of
this kind was to be expected. 1t is the
way that reforms grow. 1t is what we antici-
mated when, in speaking of Mr.. Nortons case, we
pctured the course of the movement until there
should be National party demanding the Federal
prohibition Of dogs, with Senator PETER, per-
hans running on its ticket for President. We
suspect that the next step now will be the form
ing of the New-England WOman's Anti-DOg Union.
There is one point in which Miss Carter has
the advantage over Mr.. Norton; her benefciarics
cannot drink up her paint, and get drunk. No
intoxicating liquor can be got out of house paint
But she is going TO have the same trouble with
dogs i'm the cellar. She cannot be too careful
about concealed dogs We should advise her TO
hire a good man to listen outside of every house
that it is proposed paint several nights before
hand, and to investigate all suspicious sounds.
The depths to which man will descend to avoid
giving up his dog are astonishing When dog
prohibition becomes the rule men will be found
carrying dogs about in their overcoat pockets and
silk hats and in imitation amateur camcr;L, gun
covers, and so forth. No habit has more deadly
hold upon mnkind than that Of Bookkeeping, which
is itself proof that it ought to be crushed out.