The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-26
AS CRUEL AS SPAN|ARDS
The Stage Drivers Who Torment
Their Horses Half to Death.
LASHING THE POOR MACS
Complaint Is Made to the Associated
Charities President White Turns
the Matter Over to Mayor
Harrington.

Complaints have been frequently
heard since the cable line to Walker
vile ceased operating. and the stages
were brought into used, of the inhuman
treatment of the horses by some of the
drivers employed. Yesterday the mat
ter was brought to the attention of
Mayor Harrington through IA letter adj
dressed by a citizen to the Associated
Charities. The letter was signed by
F. G. Flower, and the officers of the
Associated Charities were asked to take
official action, but as 1t was entirely
without the province of the association
as an organization, the letter was re-
ferred to Mayor Harrington by Mrs.
]. M. White, the president of the asso-
citation. The letter reads:
Butte City, Jan. 16, 1898.
Mrs. j. NJ. White, President Associ-
ated Charities. City:
Dear Madam-To you and your as
sociation officers | respectfully call at
tention to the terrible, the outrageous,
abuse of the horses USED on the Walk
erville and Centerville stage lines. My
heart aches for these poor beasts When
ever l see them or think about them.
Such heartless, such relentless, cruelty
to these poor beasts-mankind's great
est and nobleSt friends something
terrible to contemplate Back and
forth, back and forth, under the lash
of heartless drivers; up the hills on the
rum or at their fastest possible gait.
until they are reeking with sweat and
covered with foam, trembling in every
limb, nostrils dilated excited and
afraid, their sides striped with whip
marks. they present an appearance SO
pitiable that ones sympathies and in
dignation are instantly aroused, and
se- .,1, to, ra,sxr.
thing in a desire to chastise their driv-
ers and owners. Poor beasts! No one
to take their part; no one TO protect
them from the greed, the rapacious
greed. and inhuman cruelty of their
masters and drivers. In my former
home (Chicago), or in any other East
ern city, such abuse, such cruelty,
would be severely punished. Cannot
you or your association take steps to
suppress this cruelty? If your organi-
cation cannot, under the law as it now
exists, take action in the matter for its
suppression, cannot you find way for
its accomplishment? Go to the chief
of police or mayor and enter complaint
if no other way is open. Surely, there
must be some way of protecting these
poor, patient beasts.
why, there is not a humane society
here is a cause for wonder to me; sure
ly there is every possible need for one
horses and other domestic animals, are
a law unto themselves, and seem to
think that they are at perfect liberty
to cut their animals to pieces by inches
if they should be so inclined, and no
one should dare to say them nay, un-,
der fear of their wrath and the invoca-
ton of the law to protect them in the
qualification of their inhuman passions,
abuse and greed.
What a blessing to the much abused
horses of Butte could every owner and
driver be compelled to strictly obey
such laws as are on the statute books
of Illinois, Wisconsin. Ohio, New York
Massa chuSetts and every other East
crn state. And there the laws govern
ing the care and use of all domestic an
imals is rigidly enforced by officials
empowered for that purpose.
mot every team of horses on the
stage lines mentioned are abused and
driven unreasonably hard AMI long,
but a ma iorty of them are
For the sake of these poor, pa tient
beasts and the reputation of Butte
Christian citizens. do, please. do. some
thing to amelioratc their suffering, TO
stop this shameful abuse.
Not in the forenoon of the day do
they suffer so much as they do from
noon until o'clock; then the call upon
them is doubled and their heartless
drivers whip and run them in an en-
deavor to see which shall make the trip
gers-the greatest number-and thus
show the largest receipts at the end of
the day. The horses are not consid-
cred. There will be horses after you
and | are dead and gone That is their
stock phrase. Sincerely and truly
yours and the horses friend.
Box 5S2. IF. @. FLOWER"