The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-05-11

| the states and in all large towns and
cities, we have humane societies to
enforce the execution of the laws.
The parent society for the prevention
of cruelty to animals was organized
in New York in 1S66-30 years ago
less one. Its president and founder,
Mr.. Bergh, became illustrious among
philanthropists throughout the civil
lied world In 1898 that society ar
rested and prosecuted $50 violators
of the law in the city of New York.
They Investigated in that single year
over $500 cases with salutary disci-
plne upon the inhuman abuses of
animals. They mercifully put to
death over 5000 disabled animals
past recovery. They enforced into
retirement, and rest and care almost
1000 animals which were cruelty
compelled to labor in a wounded or
enfeebled condition. They own
plenty of ambulances, and employ
men to operate them, to remove sick or
wounded creatures to veterinary sta
! bles, where they are mercifully cared
for.
American Humane Association.
A few facts from the last years report
| (1894) of the secretaryof the American
Humane Association 230 organiza-
tions belong to that association. The
report embraces only 81 of these.
And these 81 organizations prosecuted
3,400 persons for cruelty to animals,
and 5000 persons for cruelty to chill
dren. They Investigated and rebuked
$4,000 persons for cruelty to animals,
and $4,000 for cruelty to children.
Over 10000 animals were rescued
from mans brutality to beasts, and
$4,000 children snatched from mans
inhumanity to childhood, from Vi
cious surroundings, and placed in
conditions of growth and enjoyment.
All this for single year of voluntary
labor. Over $4,000 cases of cruelty
mercifully attended to in a single
year by 81 of 230 organizations.
Verify, charity hath not died out
from the earth.
Who shall estimate the amount of
animal suffering prevented by such
an organization in great city where
SO many thousands of the lowest
types of men are permitted the own
ership or the mastership of Gods
noblest of animals? My sympathies
from boyhood have been enthusiast
ically with the horse. There is no
such another servant to the human
race walks upon four legs. At home
in all climates, docile to woman and
child, humble as drudge or proud
to carry monarch, devouring the
ground with feetness, yet mightier
under burden than the OK, more
courageous than a lion in the roar
and smoke of battle, yet sensitive as
a fawn in domestic life, an affection
tender as woman's, neck rolling
like cloud, and nostril fierce with
thunder if once he goes into a per-
sonal fight, yet obedient to line in
the hand of a babe, he maketh men
dizzy with felicity as he skins the
soil like bird, and all his nerves
Jingle and sing with delight! If there
be unmerciful damnation and flames
for any man, why should it not be
for him who cruelty, wilfully, bar
barously abuses the horse? ga horse
A horsel My kingdom for horse~
Yes, but mankind have kingdom in
possessing the horse.
Torture of the Horse.
Neither are the whip, the cudgel,
the jerk of the bit, exposure at the
post and hunger in the barn the only
common instruments and methods of
abuse. Those are the weapons chiefly
of the acknowledged heather grades
of humanity. The more ambitious
elements of society-men who feel in
suited at any hint of a defective re-
spectability, have more refined and
exquisite torture for this royal king
and prince of animals. / allude to
that old invention of the devil, taut
check-rein, and mans satanic i'm
provement thereon, called the "over-
check" The check is like the cat
gut on what the Methodists used to
call the ''ungodly fiddle"-it yields
the best music to the lordly owner
of the horse only whenit is keyed up
into the higher strains of torture. Re-
taliation is not Christian doctrine;
still in my heathenish, revengeful
moments l have thousands of times
devoutly wished that the inquisitori-
al master and owner of the suffering
beast might be driven through the
public highways for just one hour