The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-06
FAREWELL
SAID.
Humane Educator
Leaves the
Field.
MRS. CRAFT WRITES
| FROM NEW MEXICO
The Editor of the Animals Friend
Tells of Conditions in
Honolulu.
following is the farewell edi

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torial of Mrs. Helen w. Craft,
editor of the Humane Educator,
which for many months has been an
admirable supporter of the Hawaiian
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals. Mrs. Craft writes from
Clayton, New Mexico. whereashe is for
her health, and the Humane Educator,
the last number of which was publish
ed yesterday, will be greatly missed by
many:
This will be the last issue of the
Humane Educator. 1t is the twelfth
number, completing the year Though
the paper and the movement it repre-
sents have been We'll supported in some
quarters, there is not the the general
public cooperation which 1t is felt
should be given to such an enterprise.
The work that falls to the duty OF
humane society in Honolulu is no light
burden, and the writer, after some ten
years efforts which it is her pleasure
to know have saved many dumb
brute from ill-treatment, and which, it
is hoped, have also helped to spread in.
our community the lessons of kindness
in dealing with animals, intends now
to lay aside the work and leave it to
other hands.
"a few words as to the situation in
|
time.
| Honolulu has no Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In
this respect it is far behind other Am
ercan cities of it's size. While they
have we'll supported organizations of
large membership, which take the lead
in looking after the enforcement of the
laws regarding the treatment of ami
mails, Honolulu has left the task to Il
few willing individuals, who have spent
60
in the effort to see that the laws of
} civilization with regard to dumb bFutes
, were properly enforced A special
officer has been kept at work: on sal
airy, paid by the embryo society. He
, has had no money from the public
treasury, and his salary has come out
of a very few pockets. tt remains to
be seen whether the public of Honolulu
will beStir themselves now that those
who have carried on the work are
. withdrawing, and see that an oflcer
, is kept on duty and properly support
ed.
> Argument as to the need of a socie-
. ty is superfiuous. We need only to
refer to the annual report of our So
called society for 1900. 1t shows no
. less than $40 cases of illtreatment or
animals looked into by the officer en-
ployed during the year. The officer
: found 2S5 horses and mules in harness
that We're unfit for work and were be-
ing cruelty driven; in IA cases ne pre-
> vented the overlooking of vehicles, or
. over-driving of the helpless animals
attached to them, and in 81 cases he
found it necessary to kill the animals
to put them out of misery for which
, their owners had no sympathy.
These figures should rouse some Of
our community to action. How many
of US would stand by and see help
less brute suffer at the hands of an
inhuman owner and not lift finger to
: interfere? Instructive horror or cruelty
of all kinds is almost universal in civ
ilized mankind, and ninety-nine men
. out of every hundred are ready to
. come forward with indignant remon-
STRANGE, or even angry interference,
: when they see an unresisting animal
. put to needless or excessive pain. Yet
what is the difference between passive
ly struggling the shoulders and passing
, Eby when useless lash draws blood on
the TANKS of a horse to urge 1t to. a
task IL cannot perform-perhaps, be-
cause the weight of it's load drags
!. against raw flesh on sore shoulder
and calmly ignoring the facts because
: they are not presented to actual WIS.,
. ion? The figures are before the public:
There We're $40 cases of cruelty 10, a.1i-
: mails in Honolulu during 1900; there
will be approximately $40 cases of cru
city in 1901. We can predict this just
as the StatitStician can predict FOR any
year the number of bifkhs and deaths,
the number of murders and suicideSiin
the country-one year is MUCH like an
other. Shall the $40 dumb brutes that
will be tortured in Honolulu this year
have no one to make for them the pro-
test they cannot make for themselves7
, "Of course there are the police to look
after the matter. But It is no reflection
upon the police of Honolulu to say that
special officer, employed and backed
by humane society, is needed. In no
| rtf &c he or1i w fnrpa a
: relied upon to do the work of hu-
name society, fact which is sufficient
i. ly proved by the existence of so many
such societies. The local police have
> we'll supported the work of our special
officer. But in Honolulu, as in other
cities, the ordinary policeman does not
interfere with cruelty cases, except in
, rare instances. He is patrolman
keeping the peace and making arrests
only when he sees fragrant violations OF
law.
There is field for noble work ON
the lines suggested, not only in Homo
) lulu, but all over the Islands, and not
, merely for lovers of animals-there
is an educational side to the question
which is of vast Importance, 1t has
before been stated in these columns
that humane education lowers criminal
records. This is a truism that needs
no repetition. 1t is evident as that
one crime leads to another-that ten
denotes of disposition, like muscles.
tgrow harder and stronger through ex-
ercise There is a story, told in every
nursery, that the emperor Nero. as a
boy, loved to amuse himself by killing
flies. Taking the story as an iflustra-
ton, perhaps If he had been turned to
other amusements, the murder-loving
side of his nature would have develop
ed less.
ITO friends and supporters, the HUI
name Educator gives thanks 1t re-
peats it's thanks to the high sheriff and
the police department for their assist
ance, and earnestly hopes they will
soon have a full-fledged Society for
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to
support in the same way.
MRS. HELEN w. CRAFT
rIou+on NaW Mayipn