The Washington herald., 1908-05-03
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is at once blow at science and a blow
! at civilization 4"
| Mr. Page outlined the following plan:
/ First. Registration OF ali who shal
/ be alloWed1to engage In it.
! Second. Inspection Of all places wher,
/ 1t shall be engag ged IN.
Third. The requirement of sufficient
/ anaesthetizing.
/ This registration and inspection to bt
under the direction of scientific experts
/ Mr.. Page called on Dr. Lefiingwell f0l
an address, saying the doctor was a higf
authority aud author of several works
/ on the subject before the meeting. Or
| LetingWel made q long address, which
was heard with interest He said vivI-
section was a question which could not
/ be decided offhand, and added:
1T might be regarded from the stand
point of anti-vivisection. or the total ab0-
/ litiOn Of all experimentation upon living
animals, or from the standpoint that ther,
should be no restriction whatever TO any
phase OF scientific experimentation which
a teacher Of science or an investigator
desired TO perform.
There is, however, a middle ground
which commend to your attention, and
| that is the regulation of vivisection, the
regulation Of experimentation upon living
animals without attempting 10 abolish II
altogether or to interfere IN any way with
scientific advancement
AT the conclusion Of Dr. L4effingweITs S
address Mr.. Page paid him a high COM
pliment and the meeting gave him a vote
Of thanks.
Declaration Of Principles.
The meeting closed with the reading of
the declaration OF principles. as follows.
The Society for the Legal Regulation
Of Nivisection in the District Of Colum-
bia takes the ground.
That nothing can be held to advance
the condition Of humanity that builds up
what is Of lesser consequence by tearing
down what is Of immeasurably greater
consequence.
THAT since the discovery Of anaesthet-
ties all agonizing experimentation on ami
mails is vi0latiVe OF this fundamental law
and is both morally wrong and practically
unnecessary.
That even should measurable ad-
vantage 10 the human race apparently
come from such experimentation. the cost
would be too great 20 be compensated
FOR by any purely physical benefit re-
ceived; the cost in the long agonies in
hicted on our helpless feHow-creatures of
the animal kingdom; cost in the loss TO
our race of the finer qualities Of heart
and mind which our civilization has been
so long in building up, and in the conse-
quent brutalizing o. our people
THAT should vivisection in some degree
be deemed necessary in the interests of
science, it should net be left to the iudg-
ment Of whoever may choose to engage
in its practice, but should be regulated
by law.
That. therefore, all vivisection could
be licensed by law. all places where ex-
perimentation on living creatures is con
Quoted should be registered and open at
all times 10 legal inspection and no vivi-
section shca'I be performed except un-
der the inAlence Of an undoubted an
aesthetic"
Election of Officers.
The officers of the society were elected
as follows:
PTesident-Thomas Nelson Page. =
Vice pTesdents-Justica Harlan Justice brown
Justice Day Senator Gallinger Representative Dal-
zeIl, Gen. Robert shaw Oliver Representative oil
colt, 7. H. NewberTy. Representative Low,len. Com
missioner Mcfarland, Judge Stafford. Judge Har
ner, r. Ross Perry, Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale
John Il. Mclean. Theodore " Moves SCOTT q
Bone. Edgar d. Shaw Chief Justice Stanton 7
Peelle Lieut.. Gen. Nelson a. Miles. Mai Gen. J
Franklin Bell. Mag Gen. George /. Gillespie. Rear
Admiral Brownson. Rear Admiral O'Neil Rear Ad-
mifal Rae Rear Admiral Field Brig Gen. ". ".
NotleIspo0n, Brig. Gen George T. Elliott Com
modore Il. l. Davenport Capt, Raymond Rodgers
Capt 5. A. Stanton, Clifford Pinehot. William
Corcoran Eustis. Col. Archibald Hopkins, Edward
J. Stellvagen. Woodbury. Blair Hennen Jennings.
Thomas F. Walsh, DR.. Henry G. YaTrow, Dr Thos.
L Macdonald. d.. William c. RiTes. and tiffany
Der.
Secretary COTCOTan ThOm.
Assistant secretary-Nrs Gasch
Treasurer haTles ]. Bell
Assistant treasurer-MiSs lydia Bddle
Executive committee-Oficers and Mrs. OIeott
Mrs. Harlan. Mrs Oliver Mrs. Brown Mrs Mac
farland, Mrs. Jann, Mrs. Day. Nrs. Totten. Mrs
Cooley, Mrs. Henry Harrison Mrs. Neif. and Miss
GWynn.
Signers of the Statement.
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