The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-17

To the Editor of the Indianapolis journal:
see in the Journal of this morning an
account of Mr.. Wade's supposed cruelty
toward kicking horse. The item is shaped
in a very skillful manner to create great
prejudice against Mr.. Wade. L think it will
be a success. Perhaps from one to ten thou
sand newspapers will copy the item i'll a day
or two. BY next week people in various
parts of Europe may be reading the report,
and in a few days or weeks possibly it will
reach the Philippines No matter what the
facts may be in favor of Mr.. Wade, not one
in thousand who sees the first report will
ever see or hear any other. Let it be fully
understood now that ] do not come to the
defense of Mr.. Wade except so far as seems
to me right and just He may have greatly
erred; possibly he should be fined; do not
say he should or should not. The persons
who witnessed the whipping were no doubt,
so far as L know, very sincere in believing
that Mr. Wade was reprehensibly severe
and cruel They may not have been wit
nesses, at least some of them, to the kick
ing performance. The Journal report is SUBJ
stantially that the horse kicked the dash
board, the preacher became furiously mad,
ETC. Hundreds of very respectable horses
have kicked ''dasheS' and no one blamed
them, under the peculiar circumstances, anG
no one got mad, and they were not whipped.
That does not prove that Mr.. Wades horse
should not have been whipped or possibly
killed. L have not had any conversation
with Mr.. Wade concerning the affair, al
though l have seen him many times since
the occurrence. L did, however, have a
short interview with prominent and re-
liable business man of Muncie whose son,
q young man, aid see the fearful kicking
in the case in question. He was greatly
alarmed fearing that Mr.. Wade and his
wife and two children and mother~in-law.
If l mistake not, would, some of them, or
possibly ALL be killed. He said that Mr.
Wade displayed astonishing GOODNESS and
courage. After such an unproVoked per-
Torrance, as it evidently was something
must be done with the horse. What shall
it be? Sell him! Sell him. some would
cry. Yes, sell him to some nveryman.
Some wound have quietly done that very
thing or something similar. What of other
men wives and children in such a case?
/ remember we'll that my own wife and
child and another good wife and child had
a narrow escape from a kicking horse thir-
" years ago, hence my sensltiVeneSS over
that kind of horses. / was not present at
the scene, but the large number who Were
there We're greatly alarmed. That horse had
only a few days before been bought for
good and safe family horse, bur il was
known that he was not. Perhaps the wisest
and safest thing would have been to lead
the horse out and shoot him. Suppose that
Mr.. Wade had done that thing. What an
awful report would have been trelghted to
Honolulu and the Ladrones in a short time.
AN irate preacher killed beautiful and
dash once or twice" A farmer may Kill
a beautiful and valuable bull because he
goTed-did it only once, however, and no
one was more than badly frightened. Every
one Will say. He did just right" An OK or
COW may be dehorned and render the ami