The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-16

4e0.o00 animals involved in investiga- tons conducted by the agents of these societies. Of these agents 792 were paid and about 1000 were volunteers. Nearly s0.o00 prosecutions were insti- tuted, Of which 22,S00 resulted in con- victlons. More than s600.O00 was re- ceived from the 10000 contributors to the cause. added to which was ti1S.0O0 received from fines. All receipts amounted to s942,000, and the disburse- ments amounted to Ss59.000 There are twenty-nine societies which are very wealthy, owning forty-seven buildings. whose aggregate value Is placed at more than $1.332000.
 Tn nine years there have been 2O,- 900 dogs cared for by the animal res cue league of Boston. They say that not in all that number of dogs aiu they have one to go mad with rapies. and some of the members or ,his league are skeptical about hydropho, bia. They declare that any man would act in a similar manner If he were pursued by bowling mob, armed wlth sticks, stones and every other lmase inable weapon of offense and deIense Many of them think 1t unwarrantea cruelty to muzzle dogs during fhdu dog scare.
 One of the most impressive punliea- tions that has appeared in the lh.e, ', est or the the report of the Colorado Sate 6odfu U. It is filled with pictures of lanoseapes showing thousands of cattle, and sneep which were literally starved 10 osa.l. os One picture shows a well-to-oo house. with large barns filled with nay which could then be bought TOT n ton. Yet in the foreground III ra sight of, this scene Of prosperty, at the skinned carcasses of dozens oA eot l', s,H Sr,.a ta,,nar yvas inhunane enough to let them starve. and grasPIhe enough to profit by the hides that GOV ered their starved bodies In otheI pictures there are shown hundreos W o1 sheen that were allowed to starve .o death, and in some of them even hoi ,ls'.., sss were dead from starvation. Tn eNety ', case they were within the reacn oI succor if only the epeopie hau willing to give it. .4o
 The first anti-cruelty society In 15s .ne United States was chartered Tn lsSo' Since then the movement mas hau steady and uninterrupted groWth. Texas and Colorado have enaete9 e law to prevent steer-roping' ,s cowboy sport always carried wlth more or less danger to the lle s.an limb of the wild steers, so cnat even W ir tbe lands where the cowboy once reigned supreme. his lasso Is toEeVeL robbed of its power. The cowpHyS failed to rope in the proposed iesls- lation because of a bad throw or thei' opposition lasso. ,.,,a.ar
 The work of protecting children Llssi from cruelty is one of the larges. functions of the anti-cruelty socleties of the country. There are about million children in the United slaees in whose interests the law has 10 il- terven1. thousands of them are anan- doned, and but for these soeleties might-spend their whole lives Tn
 noranee. soualor. and misery The lase renort of the Colorado Commisslon,el shows the picture of white boy "no was abandoned, and was forced o geek shelter in a negro hut. There the State found him, and took him away to netfer surroundings. There aIe tbousands of cases like this through o,,t the land. There has been mueh Stscussion as to whether 1t was prop ar to combine the protection Of ehll- Sran and of animals under one society hui the doubt has been resolved III favor of one organization In places where the population does not waffane inc maintenance of two separate so- ,.ieties.