The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20
vlvlsEcTIoN DEFENDED. IN
Represented TO be Preventive of
Cruelty to Animals and 70 Man.

There is a little band OF men who
offer up themselves for the good Of
both animals and man. They are
searchers for the cause and cure Of
disease. They are not like the major
ity Of mankind, who are working
chiefly for themselves They belong to
q higher order Of man. They are"
writes a nerve specialist in Golfers,
"supermen indeed.
"They sacrifice their time for the
good of others, the possibilities Of for
tune (for there is no money in their
work, often not even a good living)
and often their lives, for many have
fallen victims to their dangerous call
ing and are enrolled among the mar
tyrs.
They make glorious discoveries,
but unlike ordinary discoverers and
inventors they give to humanity free
Of charge with all speed, without pat
ent or reward, the results Of their
work. These are members of the great
unchartered societies for the preven-
tion of cruelty to animals and for the
prevention of cruelty to men.
Their animal experimentation,
which requires vivisection, has been
necessary to attain the vast good al
ready accomplished. Perhaps many
thousands of animals have to perish
to reach that goal. But what are
these thousands of experiments, car
ried on humanely under anesthetics,
compared with the innumerable mill
lions that die to provide man food and
clothing, that are slaughtered need
lessly for the luxurious decoration Of
women, that are manned and mutt
lated by the DEGREES of utility custom
or fashion?
These experiments have led TO the
prevention of untold suffering, torture
and death-and not among men alone
for the lower animals have themselves
been we'll repaid for the small sacri-
fee required Of them by the abolition
among them of painful and devastat-
ing diseases such as Texas fever, an
thrax, quarter evil, rinderpest and the
| like
81 have not space to enumerate here
all that they have done for man. But
did you ever see a child die of diph-
iberia? When began practice thirty
| years ago death from diphtheria was
very common and lingering, horrible
death by choking. ! saw It often
Animal experimentation has made
diphtheria a mild and almost innocu-
| ous disease.
This is but one OF catalogue OF
| such disorders. What limit of bene.
faction can we place even upon one
such discovery? Think of the count.
less thousands OF human lives saved
by IT, far In excess,aI am sure, of the
number of animals sacrificed to affair
II and Of the millions yet to be saved
by this knowledge as the years flow
on.
Did you ever visit slaughter
house and see single frightened o1
driven to execution? II so you would
am sure with your sympathetic ma
ture, turn vegetarian. Inquire into thr
methods of killing and the methods
OF care OF these creatures during
transportation. 1t will repay you.
I'VE use them for clothing. You,
furs are probably the costly tribute o
painful death Your shoes came
from the slaughter house.
But | noticed an ostrich feather, II
one OF your hats plucked from a liv
ing bird and in another hat al
| afgrette,
do you know the tragedy that CAV,
you possession of the aigrette? Yol
can read the wretched story In tht
leaflets of your State Audubon society
This wholesale slaughter is TO
food and clothing and decoration. Th,
use of the lower animals for human
amusement and recreation is anothe
story. At your leisure | wish yol
would look into the matter of pigeon
shooting, the hunting of wild animals
the joys of the fishermen, the doing
OF the sportsman with his decoys ant
modern duck guns and the less nobl,
art of pot hunting.
You might carry investigation
further into the matter Of painful
mutilation of animals for utility o.
whim or fashion. | noticed the otheI
day that one of your pet dogs had hat
his ears trimmed and his tail cut of
and the horses which you drive have
mad their tails docked by a particu
larly painful operation, When we g,
to war we force the horses into tha
hell of mutilation and slaughter with
out compunction.
"You see how the question Of thu
morality of our conduct deepens wheI
we take the wider view. how complies
| n hapnpnac