Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-08-08

i
way If it becomes from rs to 80 per
cent it merely is a bad yer. The mum
Der Of skeletons dotting the great
plains is nothing to them, except
that they represent dollars and cents.
They make no efforts to improve con-
ditions.
This work las gone on year after
year, and it is time that the voice If
civilization and intelligent humanity
should be heard The owners of these
range cattle can be educated They
can be made to see. that If it is a
pleasant thing for them to have three
meals day and comfortable beds, it
is wrong for them to have their help
less beasts deliberately exposed to.
conditions where lingering death in
evitably must ensue. These respect
able men bitterly. rG22a2t any criticism
ohU prominent wes, sgspaper
when it's attention wa ~ to these
conditions on account u isela;sf, z.sr,t-
ings of mine, jauntiy remarked that
/ would better center the efforts of
the humane world on the factory and
mining towns of New England, where
human beings are ground down year
after year. There is more suffering in
one winter day among the thousands
of dying-and starving but not dying
cattle of the ranges in the west
than could be represented by any
years of suffering among factory and
other operatives in the east.
These conditions should be expo |
There is no blacker stain ON thes Il,
ilization of this nation than is repH :,
sented bv this deliberate and unfeeling
sacrifice of stock in unnumbered
quantities in a species of commercial
gaming. These respectable citizens,
owning the range stock, take their
chances on enough surviving the
starvation and frost each year to pay
them a profit. The rest they are in
different to. ~
| have before me word picture by
a man living in the west for q great
many years who is familiar with pres
ent conditions affecting live stock.
Imagine" he says, "a single ami
NAL in December, already gaunt from
hunger, cold and thirst-of the three,
thirst is the most terrible-imagine
this wretched creature wandering
about on an illimitable plain, covered
with snow, with nothing to eat except
here and there, buried under the
snow, sparse tuft of scanty, moss
like grass; eating snow for days and
weeks because there is nothing to-
drink; by day wandering in the snow.
by night lying down in it; swept by
pitiless winds and icy storms; always
shivering with cold, always gnawed
with hunger, always parched wita
thirst. always searching for some.
thing to eat where there is nothing
always starving with dumb hopeless
eyes, blinded, swollen and fostering
from the suns glare on the wastes Of
snow. Imagine that and imagine
yourself enduring one hour of it. Null
tlply that hour by twenty-four. Mulri
ply that period by the slow moving
days and nights of December to-
April-if life lasts that long. Multiply
that by forty millions, and you have
the statistics of brute suffering In
this one way for one year and every
year in this unspeakable trade"
Ihls Is what | call the blacklist
blot upon our civilization. It is a con
dltlon which cries aloud for immedi-
ate remedy. | think this correction
can be brought first through the rous
ing of public sentiment on the sinh
1ect and then through legislation.
And man from Oregon, writing
to the Portland Journal and comment
ing upon statements contained in an
article of mine which had appearea
In the paper, declared that he was
In a position to know that the writer
In no way overdraws the matter of
winch she writes, nor does she tell
one-hundredth part of the suffering to
which the poor dumb creatures are
subjected, nor yet does she speak of
the disease and death that are causej
the human family every year by the
unmerciful exposure to which these
great cattle and sheep barons subject
their stock"
ms man, who is in the midst of
the existing conditions writes further
that there are only two WAYS which
can see in which this trouble crue1.
ty, and dishonesty can be stopped
me first is to clothe men with power
who have strength enough TO per.
form their duty and go out on the
range and prosecute to the last
notch OF the Jaw every man or wo
man who causes his or her stock tn
saifer by carelessness. Second. a Hill
might be passed by congress which
would prohibit any party or company
OF parties from keeping more stock
vi any kind than they could provide
1000 for and partial shelter for in
winter. And all shelter needed bv
range stock can be provided chea2Iv
ont d. 80