The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-13

the blows and the beatings, of the mur- ders that day by day take place In every city. Abel's cry has been echoed all along the centuries.
 Here is a man who beats little 5-year- old boy with a clothes line, doubling up the rope and using it upon the baby, "all over his body and across his face" until he Is mass of bruises and lacerated flesh" Another father, not once nor twice, but many times. whips his two motherless children, girl of and boy of g. with a whip that was meant for driving mules. Still another fastens a dog chain about the neck of his 10-year
 old son and beats him with heavy strap upon his naked body; and the mother, in the same family "tortures another of their children by holding his hand first the palm, then the back, upon a hot stove." And yet some people think that we have no need of a Humane society that we are a parcel of fanatics when the masses know nothing of these awful fiendsh crimes, which would never be brought to punishment unless the Humane society places them behind the bars of justice. One by one the great and con- spicuous cruelties of man against man are being done away. The conscience of the race Is getting more and more awakened. We are no longer content To stand apart llhe JOudIl, WllllllB LO WalSh the sufferings of our fellow-creatures. The cruelties of the old savagery and the old civilization have almost ceased out of decent society. The prize fight is the last survival of the murders of the arena. The desire of all good people today in this age and times Is to preach at least the need of the deliverance of all those who are held captive even in the fierce bond age of our industrial conditions The old fierce punishments are mitigated. The whole Christian world reprobates Russia for her toleration of a form of imprison- ment which was one weIlnigh universal. The race is growing kinder. Domestic cruelty the longest to survive and the hardest to get at is being driven out into the light thrust into the patrol wagon and brought up at the bar of justice. Public opinion, which was once as indif- ferent to suffering as the expectant Jonah, is more Christian than it has ever been before. Now, we need to carry this tender mercy a little further on We need to remember that the Christian spirit of love reaches out and takes in not only every human being, but every living creature under heaven. We need to remember that God our Father Is the Father also of the cattle. God cares. He cares for all the little birds. Jesus has reminded us how the Heavenly Father feedeth them and how not even sparrow falls to the ground without His notice. If the little birds falls to the ground because somebody has shot him, or thrown a stone at him, just for the pleasure of shooting or stoning, God mo- tices that. If the little bird is stoned or shot in order that he may be torn to pieces and made into ornaments for wom- ems hats, God knows that And God cares. God cares for all the horses. Not a horse is r-burdened or over-driven or ill-treated without Gods notice. It is evident that good many people think that they know more about horses than God does God gave the horse an arched neck, but we have improved that with a checkrein God gave the horse eyes to see with but we have provided him with blinkers. There would be the checkrein, by which the head is held up in a constrained and unnatural way, and the eyes are brought away from the ground where they ought to watch the way of the feet, into the blinding sun one of the inventions of the devil, and the cause of constant and increasing and ab- solutely unnecessary pain. There would be the binders, by which the horse who sees out of the side of his eyes, is rem dered incapable of taking care of him self, made ready to take fright at sounds which he cannot understand, and has his pain in consequence. There would be the sharp bit, which frets and cuts the mouth, and puts the sensitive cerature Into all most intolerable pain. There would be the whip, with It's abundant possibilities