Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1895-05-30
"Having Eyes They See
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"Having Eyes They See
Not
In 1865, while in company
with Chief Justice Bigelcw and
Hon VIM Gray we we're con-
sidering the proposed law
which We had prepared for
the prevention of cruelty
to animals in Massachusetts.
one of Boston's most dis
tinguished citizens. George
Ticknor then living On the cor
ner OF Beacon and Park streets
one Of the steepest hill streets
"a Boston-up which every year
thousands of horses we're com
PEELED TO struggle just under
Mr. Ticknor's windows called.
and finding Us very busily en-
gagged, inquired what ve we're
doing. Mr.. Gray replied that
we we're considering a Law for
the prevention of cruelty To
animals.
Cruelty to animals- said
Mr.. Tieknor, "thete Is no cruelty
to animals IN Massachusetts,
How many times since that
day we have been told BY
prominent, intelligent, and hu-
name citizens that until our
work vas begun and their at
tention called to it they had
really never thought of the sub
ject in their Whole lives
We shall never forget how at
the close Of one of our address
Is in View Orleans a stranger
rose in the audience and said :
Ten years ago I was q student
in Dartmouth College when Mr..
Angel came there. and on Mon
day morning addressed the
Faculty and students in the
college chapel then add
ed: Il had never Thought vi
the subject before IN my life,
bat when | l~st eolIegc there
vas no one thing mort strongly
impressed on -y mind than the
Importance Of teaching kindness
10 dumb animals That gentle
man vas then assistant superin-
tendent and has since become
superintendent of the public
schools of Minneapolis
II requires bat little thought
for any intelligent mind To per.
leeiye from a very short eonsid-
seSz;ion Of only these two case.
the pswsr and importance oil
the humane essueafion which We
are seeking through our amen.
can Humane Education Society
to send out over our whole
country and the world
very likely some 0f our
friends may have thought that
in pvisg grataitouSly when pas,
sixty years Of age our one hoar
address during sixty one DAYS
of 4 cold winter In the grca;
normal, high, Latin and gram.
mar schools Of Boston and get
ting in return the bronchitis
and sY0smodie asthma which
have since troubled as. We
made very bad bargain But
can any human being begin tn
estimate the result To those
boys and girls and their chill
dren snd ehiIdren's children
of those addresses and the
hundreds of thousands Of
our humane publications tina,
re then and since have gratui
toasly distributed in Boston
public schools.
All our Izbors IN Chicago "a
found there the society NhIch
has xlnce saved millions o.
damo creatures from suffering
would have probably proved a
failure bas for the assistance 81
one man who. xhen n little
boy away % IN the mountains
Of New Hampshire. xxs taashl
in the little country school IL
be kind 10 xnimals.
When we ezlled upon Presi
dent Bays as Washington man,
lyears ago ~ ask that he xoale
kindly pat into his message q
Congress something about tn.
lcrueity of animal transporta
hoM Ass reply Was that when a
school in Massachusetts, he one.
heard frvn Rev. DIR. Hedge l
talk about animals which h.
had never forgotten. and tha
IL we would write what xe van
ed and il suited him il SHOULD
60 into his message to Congress
and il did
L Prosecutions are = necesSar,
and important part of our work
but In comparison with the tire
mendegs poveT n humane edu
cation are only as the light of ,
single star in Gods armament
to the sun in its meridian splen
dor-Geo- 7. ANGEL, in -Osl