The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-04

SSaSibkuS iScSdISuce liidt we're EOiuS
on in Paris. in 1900. | visited that
city and went through the Pasteur in
stitute. / saw guinea pigs and rab-
bits In various stages of disease and
suffering. In pals there were piles
and piles of these poor dead crea
lures. Up to that time / had never
thought much about animals. When
II returned to Stockholm | could not
get out of my mind the terrible pic
ture had seen. | bought books on
Iyivisection, and joined the Scan
sdinavian anti-vivisection society. |
wanted first to learn for myself just
what vivisection meant. Then de-
cided to come to England to take up
further study and work. England is
the pioneer in social reform. In
other European countries anyone is
perfectly free to perform vivisection
Experiments
laf-Hageby took course in physiology
| in the London School of Medicine for
Women. where she was able to judge
at first hand of the real horrors of
vivisection. The result OF this ex-
perience was her first book, The
shambles of Science" Since then
4 she has delivered more than 1000 pub
lie addresses on the subject, and par
! ticipated in number of public de-
bates, in one of which she badly
worsted the leading champion of VI
Iyisection in England. Professor Hal
iliburton. of Kings College.
i There is law regulating yiyisection
in this country. but Miss ind-af.
Eageby claims it Is not sufficiently
restrictive and is not properly en-
forced. In two years S9,5S1 expert
ments on living animals were made
In England and Scotland, and out o.
these only ninety-three were witness
led by the two inspectors appointed
under the act Since then, owing &c
the activities of the anti-yiysection
lists, two additional inspectors have
been appointed. Recently a clerk IL
THE home office admitted that no In
lauiry was made as to the humanity o.
applicants for permission to viylsec'
lanimals.
Miss Lind-af- Hageby is membel
ttof the governing board of the Bat
Eteesra General hospital, where NJ
remedies evolved as the result 0
lvivisection are utilized, where ther'
are no vivisectoEs on the stat, AM
where all the employees are reauire'
Ito sign statement to the effect tina
lthey are opposed to viyisection. tn
, Iobject of this hospital is to show Il
practice what the anti-yivsectionlst
, belieye-that surgical experiments O.
living animals are not necessary, tina
there arc other methods of research
! and that it is perfectly feasible
:. heal the sick and relieve the sufferin
: without resorting to viyisections
!, methods or to the fruits of vivisectioI
! primarily | am opposed to Wv
section said Miss Lind-af-Hageb.
. .because / regard it as immoral.
: believe, as Queen Victoria once wrot
: that no civilization is complete thi
!. does not include the dumb and O.
! Ifenseless of Gods creatures within Il
sphere of charity and mercy. AS
the alleged utility or usefulness
: the viyisection of animals, that Is
:, secondary issue. Nothing could
= more useful from purely scienuf
: standpoint than to vivisect huma
:, beings. From purely ntilitaris
! point of view perhaps it would
:. Legitimate to vivisect criminals al
. the insane.
- "But / have a profound spiritu
conviction that what is moral
= wrong and spiritually retrogresslv
!. cannot in the long run be scientificai
! right. And if we wait long enou'
= il will be found that that which
- spiritually beautiful and spiritual
~ good will also be found to have pc
I. physically useful"
- Miss Lind-af -Hageby is so consi'
!. tent in her beliefs and sentiments IN
: she never wears furs or feathers.
! sympathy for Thorpe.
10 49,, . Tho French me