New-York tribune., 1897-08-15

This SHE proudly fingered that orange pam
pnletHls the Prospectus. so to speak l snaI
send 1t all around, and / am sure that in this
enlightened England in this nineteenth century,
there must be hundreds Of people only waiting
10r word OF this kind to realize the enormites
that are every day perpetrated under the name
or modern science and progress. and to joyfully
perceive their duty and do it," l could tell she
was quoting from the pamphlet. "And then the
great question Of Justice People are very ready,
nay, quite prettily anxious to be just to any
thing that is pleasing to them. anything that
delights their eye, or when the injustice offcnds
their artistic scnSibilities: but say true justice
is justice to things that ugly, things that are
harmful to you. things that you hate. People
so wild over massacres here and atrocities there
let them look at home Anything that happens
far enough away they will spend their money
and their lives trying to put right, but the
tragedies that happen under their own noses. the
creatures that are being murdered in their
millions. When she got excited she always
overran herself. t. say. aud had to pull up.
"Al these typhoid germs she said when she
could breathe again, "diphtheriic germs, and 50
on, are quite good in themselves, you know.
They're no more criminal than your o~n butcher
and poulterer and eat and dog! so further than
most people know" she said with grim kind
Of smile My one idea is universal justice.
And | say if the climate of the interior suits
them. why it's nothing short of baThaTous 20
deny il to them"
Il don't understand you one Bit got in at
last
MY dear" she said. The plain truth is. we've
no right to take their liyesl"
"But in self-defence?' murmured. he!plessly
fabbergascd surely lis justidable-a -
"Fra;rcide?" she chirped cutely.
But they wOuid take our lives II we didn't
take theirs"
And that's nice Christian principle to so
upon she cried.
''Wcll. how do you propose to avoid it?"
Murders ore thing and prevention's another
You admit that, don't you?'
"Of course
And they've just as much right to their lives
as we TO ours. People will recognize that some
day. They're slowly waking up now. one by
one innocent and helpless lives are being pro-
tected. Il began with the earliest humantarians
VINO ade slaves instead Of sacrifices 81 prisoners
Of war. and it's cny just reached dumb animals
after all these thousands OF years. But us
the tendency OF the age and I'm only just
very li.tle in advance of it. Your children VIII
hold views you think absurd. and look on YOU
as a savage. probably even a 4 murderer. Ana
some day there will h. universal recognition of
the universal law and the earth viii he one huge
paradise"
other. what viii they live on"
vegetables" she said triumphantly And
much healthier. toO"'
Bat vegetables have organic lie, too; and by
and-by TO doubt We shall find out that they
have consciousness and all the rest Of IL"
Then perhaps some chemical-you confuse
me"--. And there was a vacant struggling
bafiied look in her eye that did not remember
to have seen before.
She looked so distressed that ! wanted to Go
nothing but ma ke her comfortable again.
You didn't tell me what your prevention was
to be-" said
She frightened up like n coal alGht in a
drausht and turned to her opening address in
the book.
"Oh. rational clothing ana pure focd and good
air and avoiding contagi0n."
But let US be logical. dea, lady" said in
yitingly. IL cant see that you have any right
either to deprive them Of sustcnancc and pre-
vent them from prOpaSatin,; their kind IL they
wish to. And surely death BY starvation is very
painful TO them"
She was silent. Her eyebrows went up in a
three cornered sort OF way, and made puzzled
creases in all directions.
MY dear wish you hadn't suggested that"