New-York tribune., 1908-02-15
CALL ON ROCKEFELLER
Ask Him to Prohibit Unrestricted
ViUisection in His Institute. To-

with a woman presiding and speeches by two
ciergyren. well known legislators ana seVerai
others. the New York Anti-Vfvisection SOCIETY," AZ
a public meeting IN Carnegie Lyceum last evening.
launched a campaign looking TO the enactment Of
ant-vivisection legislation IN New York state The
speakers were Assemblyman F. K Johnston. John
Dewitt Warner the Rev A Lincoln Moore. Sena-
tor Alfred r Page. the Rev. Henry Frank and g.
Frank Stevens, of Philadelphia
Mrs. Diana Belais. president OF the New York
Anti-vivisection Society presided and five hundred
six hundred persons heard the speeches
Among them were several physicians and large
proportion OF IN the movement
In opening the meeting Mrs. Belais said
Ladies and Gentlemen: Our purpose in being
here this evening is TO protest against the practice
of vivisection which not only occasions excruciat-
ing suffering to animals but is demoralizng in its
retroactive effect upon the human who per-
petrates it.
II will say first that have no doubt that so per
cent of the medical profession are to-day really at
heart opposed to vtvsecton. but owing to the fact
that the leaders of the medical profession in New
York confident IN their eminence and OF their
power to punish they have sent out q practical
prohibition to all physicians that they shall not
approve sustain IN any manner any movement
toward the restriction Of vivisection Owing to that
have not the medical support that we doubt
less would have had"
Assemnlyman Johnston. who fathered the So
ciety's anti-vivisection bill at Albany. said:
There is at the present time nothing in the law
to prevent any man behind closed doors performing
any experiment he fit. The Society for the
Prevention OF Cruelty to Animals can reach only
to the things that done IN the open And so
the to-mentors-for that is what they are-of
these animals may go and on and there IS moth
ing to prevent them"
He said his bill proposed that any one perform
ing such experiments must O. be licensed: 90 the
building IN which they were performed must be
licensed; () that they must be performed only when
the animals under anaesthetics; 90 that the ex-
periments must be made only when done for sci
ence and not to demonstrate facts already known,
and G) that the places must be inspected
The statements that the experiments must be
only in the search for facts undeveloped attracted
a good deal of applause.
Assenlblyrnan Johnston was followed by John De
Witt Warner, who said:
"I sympathize with the professional Jealousy that
warns laymen not to touch the ark of its cove
nant. but 1 submit the medical profession ought
to take better OF It 1t claims that 1t can best
attend to this business think So too and what
is more believe that day Il will attend to
tt-a great deal better than any one else can do
But the whole truth Is broader than that 1t Is
humanitys business which the medical profession
ought to attend to. but which It has 80 far left
undone that Iaymen have been compelled 10 take
it up. That gentlemen Of the medical profession,
is your facIlt-not theirs"
Resolutions adopted protesting against vfvf-
section and appealing TO the Governor and the Leg
islature for laws preventing vfvisection. Another
resolution passed asking John D. Rockefeller
prohibit unrestricted vivsection IN the institute
bearing his name.