Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-02-18
HUMANE society
IN A WIDE WORK
MAGNITUDE OF FIELD Is HARD
TO REALIZE.
With WHAT IT Deals.
A Proposition on Which All May
Work Togcthcr-SOme of
the Influences.
CBy GEORGE T. ANGELO.


II Is hardly possible for anyone not
in it to rightly estimate the magnitude
Of our work. Take the city Of Boston
alone. and one animal. the horse our
courts are filed with cases Of assaults
upon man. but II would be speaking
far within bounds TO say that for cv-
cry such case there are twenty cases
Of cruel and Illegal assaults upon
horses Take into consideration all
the overloaded teams, the cases of fast
driving. oyer-driying, over-workIng,
underfeedIng. neglect to water, neg
lect to properly shelter and protect
from the weather light Checkrelns,
sores worn by harness, twitching,
beating kicking, bad shoeing. bad
pavements, bad stables. bad feeding,
bad harness bad grooming, bad driv-
ers, and all the other various forms
jected Then extend the estimate to
the whole wide circle OF dumb crea-
lures, and to the whole three hundred
and odd cities and towns Of the state.
Let it include all the cattle trains Of
the railroads Of the state, crowded
daily to suffocation with dumb crea-
lures hungry thirsty and sleepless;
the merciless bleeding Of calves the
bagging Of COWS, the starving at the
cattle markets: the shearng Of sheep
In cold weather, before they are sent
to the market; the cruel pluclHng Of
live fowls, and their cruel transporta-
tion; the cruel transportation Of calves
tied; the abominable treatment OF old
and wornout horses; the short feeding
Of cattle; the cruel methods Of killing
poultry; tho destruction OF useful
bird. Sit down and consider how
much you have personally seen and
heard Of; recollect that OF what tran
do not see or hear Of one case In a
thousand; add to the population of
your own city or town the population
Of the entire state. Recollect that the
human population Of the state Is out
numbered twenty to one BY the great
animal population Of the state, which
can neither read, write nor speak
Recollect that we, by our act Of in
corporation ana the subsequent laws
passed at our request have become
the legally authorized guardians and
protectors Of this lnnumerablo multi.
tude. bound by our public promises
/ and declarations. and tho position IN
which we stand, as well as by our
sympathies to do all that lies In oui
power for their welfare. Take all oi
these things into consideration, not
! lightly for tho moment, but Will
thought and reflection; and you may
then begin to realize something OF tn,
magnitude OF our responsJ iitles
something OF the magnitude Of u,
necessities Of the work
Nor Is this all. II strikes deeper
at the foundations of society; nay
underlles farther the very church Il
self, than the unre1sotlng may hav,
dreamed. Like the sanitary and Chris
tian commissions. 1t forms a gran,
plateau on Which ei good men ant
"o"'ep; VI all churches and no church
a,ash work together for thoss thing
which uii ii-..iln every church. II rro
poses to go into dFery family OF tn,
state. Protestant Catholic lnruo. pnt
atheist Qf such there be-. and preacf
to all and each Of them the new evan
gel Peace on earth and goodwill tC
all GODS creatures" When tho right,
OF dumb animals shall be protected
the rights of human beings Will b,