The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-16
ANTI CRUEL TY SOCIETIES
By Frederic J. Haskin.

The American Humane Association meets in New, Orleans tomorrow. Its announced object Is to introduce the Golden Rule into all the walks of life.
 The first half of the meeting will be devoted to the protection of children.
 and the other half to the protection of animals. 1t is one of a half dozen
 great national organizations which are
 working to the end that children and animals may be made exempt from the unpitying ravages of cruelty The meeting promises to be attended hY thousands of devoted men and women from all partseof the country and from all walks of fife. While President
 elect Taft will not be there, he is one of the vice-presidents of the organi-
 zation, and his interest will probably be displayed by a letter to the con- vention. The Association was organ
 iEed in ls77 and has been one of the leading forces in the anti-cruelty cru
 sade. For some years interest in 1t
 seems to have Jagged. but the present
 President has given it a particularly wide-awake administration, and its work promises to be prosecuted with
 new vigor in the coming years.
 The list of subjects which will be discussed is a long one. Elbridge T.
 Gerry of New York. author of the fa-. nous Gerry law, will read a paper on
 
 saving work, and number of speak CTS will discuss the introduction or further humane education in the schools of the land. The Association will also hear that the very work tney are doing may be overdone. Ine | speaker who Is to tell them tnls s l John Partridge, President of the San ! Francisco Society for the Prevention l of Cruelty to Animals. He regards the | overdoing of the anti-cruelty crusade as A method par excellence or Wrech- | Ing the society engaged in the Work' | Miss Marshall Saunders or HanIax: Nova Scotia, will sound trumpet caLi | against traffic in wild birds, and M. Y. | Dow of ohio. will advocate a. system | of horse vacations. The problem or the increasing numbers of abandoned | wives and children will be discussed by Ralph Jacobs of New York.
 Perhaps the most interesting hu- manitarfan work now going on in the United States is the education or the youth of the land. through the work of the American Humane Education Association It organizes Bands Of Mercy at every possible point. of which there are now nearly 75.0OO m the United States, with a membership or nearly 3000,000 children. all piedged
 to work in the interest Of humane treatment for dumb animals. George 1. humanitarian. is at the head of It, ana
 through his paper. "Our Dumb Ami mals." has contributed as much to the better treatment of them as any other man living or dead. To him Is due the great humane sentiment created by 'Black Beauty" a book that Is to this crusade what Uncle Toms Cabin was to the anti-slavery movement. MT. Aneell secured a copy of the English edition and carried 1t to one book house after another. None of them thought the sales would pay for the setting of the type. Mir. Angell took the matter in hand himself, and today Black Beauty has reached sale Of 3, ,000. .0OO copies, and the end Is mo- where in sight. He thinks the sales may ultimately reach 1o.O00,0o0 copies The author sold the manuscript to an English house for $l00.
 Nearly every State In the Union now has it's laws for the protection of animals from cruelty, and for the sim far protection of children. During last year 231 active anti-cruelty soci- eties, out of a total of 3ss in the United States. reported 135,oO0 children and