The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-08-26
This is Different.

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Editor Journal: Just at present
thero seems TO be n general crusade
against the slaughter OF birds Like
every other mater. there is. Of course.
a woman In Il; I'm fact, the main bat.
tie seems 10 be against the fashion
ladies' have OF using the plumage OF
the songsters for the adornment of
| their headgear. All kinds OF literary
Ammunition is being fired nj the la
dies. 10 get them 20 quit this so-called
cruel custom. One pleads with them
another scolda, and still others point |
tenrfully TO the thousands OF innocent |
little birds. That must be sacrificed |
for tho purpose OF gratifying the fem
lnlne desire 90 look pretty and sweet |
and attractive. II does seem rather
cruel: but what Ia mankind or woman
kind here fort Man was given do
minion over all living things, and
their happiness. pleasure or welfare
are all subsidiary 10 his.
II there anything alive that does
not suffer at his hands? True some
of the domestic animals are not ruth
leasly slaughtered by him, but they
are few; aud they only escape capl. K
tai punishment be having their sen.
tences reduced 10 penal seryitude for
life. II ls not absolutely necessary
for a woman 10 wear tho dessIcated
aongsters In her hat. but as long as I
she thinks they add 10 her appearance
(and MS palayerlng men are the ones
who make her think they do), that
long the birds will have 10 suffer
But, 10 look Rt It In another light,
why is II any more cruel to kill a
woodpecker for the purpose OF max,
ing Mary James hat look brighter, [
than II ls 10 KIN the innocent barn. 4
yard fowl. that really 10. friendly toI I
YOU, for the purpose OF satisfying for h
a few brief hours Sarah Maria's ap- 1,
petito9 n
Why pity the birds. whose pIumage a
adorns the Easter bonnet, yet tramp a
the tanned hide OF the old a
COW and her blsating offspring, with n
nevcr thought that their lives were ri
sacrificed for the vanity aud comfort d
OF manY Why not sympathlze with
the g,iileloss flsh, pluckcd ruthlesslyl
from his native element, begulled 10
his destruction by wriggllng worm.
whose iifo is also destroyed? Whyl
not pity the poor calf. deprived of his c
rlghts, his suatonance, that gormandlz. / c
ing man may have butter on his bread
or thu feminine osophagus bo soothed
With the cooling ice cream3 Whyl
surfelt th pretty codling moth with !
Paris green, or London purple for the %
single reason that like yourself. he'll
10 fond of apples3 Why weep over
the destruction OF the pretty chatter
ing hushy-tnilod squirrel. and at the D
same time have no feeling In knock.
Ing tho graceful Belgian hare In the
head with a olabg Why break up the
homo OF the industrious beaver that
man may have a glossy tile, OF de
sarOy wantonly the fur seal, that wo d
man may amble the sidewalks With
pride. the envy OF h0r less fortunate !
siateHf Why not weep over the
whale calf whose mother has fallen
prey 10 tho greed OF mon, and the van.
lty OF womang why shed no tears
over the death of the most magnlh
cont OF animals. the elephant. whose
only Oifcnae Ia. that his tusks are
wanted by MANI Why leave an oper,
place against the shy, where once
ave centuries. IN order that you may
toast your shlns OF a winter night.
and mover shed tear over itf
Why-bnt what's tho use. The
stomach Of man is tho great and In
evitahlo tomb OF nearly everything
that lives or hloomss and those things
which hia stomach has no need Of. his
outpldea somehow ind use for Man
alone nnds beauty and pleasure in
bird and beast after they are dead
and n he doesnt-why then he's a
brute. A GREENHORN.