The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-11
SHE WATCHED
The RETURNS
WoMAN's SPECIAL INTEREST in
STATE ELECTION.
ONES HER CHARGE
Humane Society Agent Speaks of
Bills Legislature Will Be
Asked to Pass.

Among those particularly interest.
ed in the results of last Tuesdays
election is a woman, and she is not
a resident OF the state, either. The
lady is Mrs. E. Irene Rood of Chi
cago. Her special interest lies in the
legislative returns.
Mrs. Rood is the national repre-.
sentative OF the American Humane
association and has been in the state
for sometime working in behalf of
humane education. Several days be-
fore the election she joined the Of
ficers of the Montana branch of the
national organization in sending a let
ten to every legislative candidate in
the state asking him to give his sup
port to a bill it is intended to intro
duce in the legislature for a law CIV
ing greater protection to dumb ami
mails and helpless children. A copy
of the letter was. published in The
Gazette at the time of it's circulation.
In it the candidates were not only
asked to vote for the measure, but
were also requested to define their po-
sition as regard it beforehand and
make reply so that if elected 1T would
would be known to the society how
they could be expected to vote.
Helena papers now say that in
stead of n bill, the society will en-
deavor to have two passed, one pro-
viding for humane education in the
public schools of the state, and the
other to create a state bureau for the
protection of helpless children and an
imals. Such laws have already been
passed by the legislatures of sew
eral states.
"The people of the west can hardly
realize the great advancement made
during the last ten years in humane
work." said Mrs. Rood to the Herald.
I'VE are reaching out in every di-
rection, organizing societies in every
quarter of the world. General Wood
has been a good friend in Cuba and
General Taft in the Philippines, where
we recently sent 10, 0 supplementary
readers to be used in the public
schools.
cat the coming session of the legis-
lature here in Helena one of your SEN
ators will present a bill pr oviding for
humane education in all the public
schools of Montana. Another bill will
be introduced to create a state bu-
reau for the protection of helpless
children and animals, and l earnest
ly trust that every humane citizen
will make a personal appeal to the
legislature to support these bills.
Another humane bill will be in
troduced in Washington this winter
by Congressman Shaforth of Colorado,
to create a national commission, to
deal with the proper treatment of
dumb animals, domestic animals es-
pecially."
animals have rights which should
be protected. Cruelty toward them is
prohibited by the statutes. They can
not appear in the courts of the coun-
try to plead their own cause, and
their suffering should appeal to all
good men and m
"The tremendous wrong of cruelty
must be righted before we can claim
that Christendom is Christianized.
The self regard which prompts the
oppression of the helpless, because
he is helpless and a profitable prey,
must be subordinated to the higher
sentiment of regard for the life of
others, rel of dumb animals"