Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-06-23

reading city to the minute, one might oc
cupy nearly six weeks Il & tsek too mo-
notonous to be improving.
How 1t is to be transported We have no,
yet been told, but that will be an easy
matter in Comparison with the work OF
displaying It properly to the public eye.
The proposed plan Is to use the petition as
drapery, festooning It around the walls OF
the halls In which the public meetings viii
be held, and the many miles of such fes-
tooning, every inch of which records the
story of purposeful effort, or of wrong and
vant and suffering will surely be most
remarkable object lessen.
The official delegation to present this
petition to all the governments of the
world are: Miss Frances Willard. Lady
Henry Somerset, Mrs. Woodbridge OF
Ohio, Mrs. Williams of Canada and Miss
Anna Gordon. Besides these party of
about one hundred temperance and social
reform workers will be organized, In
which will be representative from every
state in the Union and from every prov
ince In the Dominion of Canada.
At the meeting of the National W. @. T.
.. in Washington in November the petit
tion will be presented to the President of
the United States. As soon after this az
is practicable the party will 60 to London,
where they will bs Joined by the English
delegates, and the petition will be brought
before the British government. At
Rome 1t will be presented to the
Pope aud the King of Italy;
then they will go on to Greece to Turkey.
tralis, China and Japan, returning to
America through British Columbia and the
Canadian Northwest. Khedives and sui
tans, emperors, governor generals, Greek
and Armenian patrisrchs, and the chief
priests of the Bnddhists, are all to have an
opportunity to see the wonderful petition,
to hear of its history, and give 1t the seal of
their approval. They can hardly fail to do,
since 1t Ia plea for a higher standard of
morality Throughout the world, and its
purpose applies with equal force to all
races, tongues and forms of religious be-
lief
This tour will occupy about nine months.
If It's purpose is realizsd, even in part, the
nations of the earth will be. linked to-
gether, as they have never been before, in
a combined effort for social reform. There
will be an awakening of the Indifferent;
and the inspiriting of the interested, the
uplifting of the degraded, in all countries,
must follow the most notable reformatory
effort of the age, one in which women,
the world over, have played o noble part,
and OF which this wondeful petition is but
the outward sign and token.
PROTECTION.
The Massachusetts, legislature has passed
and the governor has signed bill prcvid-
ing that whoever is guilty of the inhumsn-
ity of docking horses tail shall be pun
ished by fine or imprisonment. Moreover,
anyone who by his presence abets such
mutilation is subject to the same penalty.
Now If other State Legislatures can be in
duced to pass the same law, the "society
with the long name" will have brought
about one thing to cheer the hearts of all
genuine horse-lovers. To deprive noble
animal of an ornamental appendsge that is
also Its natural means of protection from
exasperating insect enemies, Is needless
cruelty of which one would not suppose
thinking human creature could be cspa-
BILE.
But the trouble with many human crea-
lures is that they do not think, probably
because they have nothing to think with.
1t Is not always the poor man who over
urges his weary mack because the load
must be carried, certain amount of labor
done to earn the daily wsge, who Is to be
blamed and punished for cruelty. There
Is often hard necessity back of the sever
ty which he himself may regret. And
here is pitiabls amount of suffering
caused by the csrelessness and neglect of |
The ignorant, but none of these things are
10 be compared to the cold brutality of
.hose who disfgure a creature because of |
\ false and irrational idea of "style."
So 1t is pleasant to read In our morning
paper of June % that the good old COM
has taken this step In the right |
direction, and has set an example which,
t is to be hoped, other legislatures will
'ign of the growing benevolence of the
lines. And then We turn another leaf |
md read, IL we are not too much disgust
ID, of the exciting and hotly-contested
.scs at Sheepshead Bay on June 81. This |
.ace ia called "a classic event." also, In the |
Isme paragraph, ga bitter and cruel strug-
yle."
We read that "Taral and Sims rode
ike demons through the final distance,
plying steel and cstgut every inch. 1t was
lip and slash and the game thoroughbzeds |
struggled until their cleaning eyeballs |
seemed ready to burst from their sockets"
These two riders were not the only ones |
Rho piled the lash and the spur; eight |
,ther demons" were doing the same
hing in desperate effort to gain upon the |
esders. If one will stop a moment to |
hink just what this means, of the ferocity
If the jockeys, the effort and anguish of the
.acers, they will see that this ''event" ia as
'claesic" In its ssvsgery as most such
events were in lees refined and enlight-
med age.
And these were willing creatures, full of
,pirit and pride and emulation! They were
hus goaded and tortured, not because of
but because there was money at
,take for horse owners and bookmakers
md gamblers. 1t Is said that horse racing
8 for the improvement Of the breed In the
general development Of fsetness. How
loes Il improve the breed of men and wo-
men who look on at the thrust of the spur,
md listen to the kissing of the lash and |
shout and scream snd spplaudl
Out in Nebrasks this month nine thor |
oughbreds were entered for hundred |
mile race. Four were mercilessly driven |
10 death, one dying upon the track, part |
y, 1t is thought, from the effects of stimu- |
atipg poisons. The race was planned
simply to test the staying qualities of the
western horses. The managers did not in
tend that there should be any cruelty and
are much disturbed over the result. 1t is
said that this will probably end long dis
lance racing IN that section of the state.
But if they knew tuat such barbsrities
we're classic and were equalled In cruelty
by this agonies of the short distance races
IN the cultured essi would they not be
anxious to continue them?
SIT looks lise," as the Nebrssksn might
say, more laws were needed for the pro-
lection of horses. Not only the fly brush
but the entire animal needs protection;
and this ie not merely becsnss the horses
is because we human beings are
being brutalizsd, ''demon"-izsd by all
,rueltiss in which we bear a part, or pass
vely allow, or In the excitement and
frantic struggle of the race can look upon
without pity ard without shame.
HILARY.