Arizona republican., 1902-12-22

prohibited by the ethics of our pro fession.
 Second, that misrepresentation Is forbidden by the ethics of mankind. No measure that would prohibit vivisec- ton, or prevent any of the experi- ments which you claim were necessary to give you the requisite knowledge in the Aiken case. has ever been intro duced by me in the senate. nor has any such legislation been recommended by me to the senate. Your statement that I have been engaged in efforts to secure 'inhumane and cruel legisla- tion, is without the slightest warrant in fact. I have been engaged in efforts to secure humane legislation that would prevent cruelty. The bills which have favored would if enacted, only regulate vivisection in the Distric, or Columbia. so as to prevent admitted cruelty, and should have the support of every humane person.
 Third, that your argument turns entirely on an assumption which can localization of the functions in the brain of man has been determined by experimentation on animals. The brains of animals differ from the brain of man, and also differ from one another. so that stimulation of a cer- tain part of the brain vii produce a certain effect in one animal ana another effect in another animal The long history of experiment on the brains of animals has shown that it is not only unsafe to reason from the brains of animals to that of man, but hot Nfv1er fo fa ha tween the brain of one animal ana that of another. It has been so in general with animal experimentation. When such experiment had established fact with regard to any species Of animal the next thing was, Now, let us see if it Is the same In man" The experimenters, therefore, saw by eS- pertinent in some form upon man, and sometimes the result was similar, and sometimes not. That such experiments upon man, as results of reasoning from the lower animals, have been to a great extent disastrous Is certain, for 1t Is the testimony of great surgeons and physiolOgists. By "experiment" upo:. man mean in general operations upon human beings, with the expect ation that they would have the same result as they had had with animals.
 Fourth, that you ignore in your direct appeal to selfishness. that altru- ism which is the principle of moral progress. To practice cruelty. even in the hope of helping humanity. Is to hurt it and to delay the advance of civilization.
 Recurring to the suggestion already made, that l have never introduced into the senate or advocated any bill that would prohibit vivisection, I beg to say that the purpose has been to regulate the practice, thereby removing from it the 'inhumane and cruel | features which have shocked the moral sense of our people. You will doubt l less recall the fact that when you gave testimony before the commIttee | on the District of Columbia, on Febru- ary 21, 1900. I asked you if you though. it improper for congress to enac; q law saying that a dog or a horse should be put under the influence oi an anaesthetic before being cut to l pieces or the nerves torn from the brain, and that you promptly replied | I think it would be most unwise legis- lation.'
 Tn view of that reply, do you not think that your charge against me that l am engaged in efforts to secure in- humane and cruel legislation should be withdrawn, and especially so when we | have undoubted testimony to the fact | that one experimenter Is in the habit | of plunging dogs for thirty seconds | into boiling water; that another fast ems dog to the dissection table and | discarding the use of anaesthetics stands above it with a large empty | stone bottle, with which he strikes witf all his strength a dozen blows on the head, while the same experimentei says that he dislocates both the should
 CTS, doing it with difficulty? Another experimenter claims that he has con. secrated' more than eighty large ami
 mals, mostly horses and mules to tn, extremest torture possible, not as n, expressly tells us, to solve any problem in medical theory. but simply to set what degree of pain can be Inflicted | through irritation of the spinal cord.
 Still another says that he has in
 vented a new machine which he call. | his 'tormentor,' and in this fiendish de | vice, which had first been quilted witt
 long, thin nails, T animals are moved l dOOul' IdChSu NllIf torment, torn dn( | twisted, crushed and lacerated, hour b,
 hour, until crucif1ed nature can n, | longer endure, and death comes as
 tardy release. That eXperimente
 says: I can take an ear, paw
 or a bit of skin of the animal, and b, ] turning the handle squeeze it beneatl
 the teeth of the pincers; I can lift tn
 animal by the suffering part: can tea
 it or crush 1t in all sorts of ways, and h
 adds that these experiments are re
 peated day after day. with much de
 light and extreme patience for tn
 space of a year
 If. sir. to attempt to prevent sucl
 barbarous practices brings me unde
 your condemnat ton, I am willing t
 have the case submitted to the judg
 ment of the American people"