Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-16
MAKES STRONG APPEAL
FOR KINDNESS TO HORSES
Writer Declares Los Angeles Society
for Prevention of Cruelty t. AMI
mails is Deserving of Better
Support

LOS ANGELES, Oct 12.-[Editor Her
add: Rightly has it been said that tnis
Is an era of commercialism. perhaps
never before in the history of man mas
the human mind been SO persistently
fixed upon material good. practlcal
objects and money interests as at pres
ent-and in this country. rms ls' oi
course, due chiefly to our exlstins PEI
fected economic business system OF
"knock down and drag out but that is
another story My object now is to snow
that the most practical commercial
ism sometimes in its short-sightedness
30 erleaps ITSELF" as 1t is doing To-Day
and in this city.
There is such a unity in human ailairs
that. in a civilized community, what-
ever tends to raise, as 1t were, the tone
of the people and add to the general
sum of decency and true respectabillty
will have a stimulating effect upon every
legitimate enterprise, however appa-
rently remote in nature. Ana vice versa
as we'll This applies even to the strict
est commercialism, or search lor prom.
and he who fails to realize 1t is as snor'
sighted as the ancient eXploiter VINO Kill
cd the fabled goose that laid the golden
egg. ,s
Now for my application There is
in this city an organization, modest ana
by many unrecognized, but with WINCH
in it's downright relief of surerlng, III
its plucky and continued hight against
obstacles, and in the faithful service
of it's agents, no other institution IN
Los Angeles, / believe can compare. l
refer to the Los Angeles Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (some-
times called the IS. p. c. AID, now
located in the Byrne building. 253 South
Broadway rooms 442 and 444. This So
ciety, incorporated in 1877. has suHereo
many trying vicissitudes. but now
through undertaking purpose and the
energy and talent of it's present man
agement, has reached a position where
it is daily felt both as a humanizing
influence and a deterrent to the evil
doer
But a serious feature is here presented.
n this great and growing city, the nome
of thousands who have acquired wealth
and ease-many of them largely through
the patient service of those dumb crea-
lures for whose protection the society
exists-this same society Is struggling
from hand to mouth, as it were, for It's
daily subsistence. Often it does not
know whence and how will come the re-
sources to meet the heavy demands
made upon 1t; and its horse ambulance,
now daily doing splendid work, was but
recently acquired by long ana patlent
solicitation and economy.
1 protest that such condition of in
difference in city where wealth and
leisure, culture and piety go hand in
hand, and in it's countless churches are
told of the blessedness of charity and
mercy, is shame and a reproach. This
institution, an instrument of kindness,
Justice and a beneficent order should be
placed securely upon its feet by an en-
dowment so ample that it's efficiency
would never again be impaired, like that
of poverty stricken human toiler. by
harassing fears and worries. True,
many citizens may not have known
of the society at all. Well. this is to let
such know that 1t exists, is very much
alive and needs their help; also that
those who do know of it may awaken
to it's needs. and thus to the needs of
the community.
For where one sees in a community
a large, well-endowed and prosperous
society of this understanding between
the public and brutalism, between the
friendless victim and his tyrant-there
one will see community of the high
est class intelligent, broad minded and
humane. 1t is pointer as true as the