The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-27
How the American Humane Education
Society Is Waging War on Owners and
Drivers Who Torture Their Willing Beasts
with Old Junk Harness, "Blinders' That
Actually Cause Blindness, Cheap, Suffo-
eating Nose Bags and Narrow, Dark,
Pestilential Stalls.

All the appeals and arguments amount to
nothing. All the humane education. academic
tracts and scientific facts amount to nothing
something has got to drop-force Is needed
and you may reckon that hundreds of thou.
sands Of calloused. Sporty" fashionable and
shiftless tormentors OF that silent martyr Of
civilization. the horse, won't do the right thinr
until they are compelled to do it by drastic
humane Harvesting law.
Binders should be legislated out OF sxis4
ence or laws made reducing their size and re-.
curing them to set Ave inches away from IN.
beasts eyes with rigid winker straps setting
we'll away from the horses face and chann1
no part OF It; also making the winkers rigid
30 they won't bang against the eyes
Check-reins should be leglslated out OF .Y,st
ence or law made requiring them TO be six
inches slack OF the natural polse OF the neck.
Horsehair back and collar pads should be
enforced by law. also ventilated feed bags
larger stalls with light and air In them. and no
set OF harnesses allowed over hty pounds
weight These are rights OF the horse.
can chow that In my own city OF ao.,o,
there 1000 horses either stone blind a,
going blind.
For two years have been holding mn ho-ea,
on the streets. taking down data about thes.
blind horses Eight-tenths OF these horses we.r
cloeelyhttng binders which create unheaItbv
eye conditions from poisonous wastes ~ tha
eyes striking binders and rejecting back into
the eyes Go and feel OF the tight blinders nm
any Woodworking horse on hot day and W.,
will find those binders damp, some OF than
soggy.
These unhealthy conditions Of the blinder.d
horses eyes. In connection with unventilated
emmonta-reekng stalls. make horses 10 blind
II is pitiable, wrong and preventable
charge harness makers and dealers as
fundamentally the guilty ones in perpetuating
this binder barbarian.
They make more money on brides having
the wtnkers than those without and they mako
pile OF money on monograms to go on
binders Some horse owners hundreds
OF dollars invested in monogra, on binders
You can't drag those binders off the horses
with yoke OF oxen: the owners won't permit
It They value their investment above any
humane sense. Tremendous odds are arrayed
against these dumb beasts.
My Investigations show that on the whole
horses are better treated In New York than in
any other OF the large Eastern cities. Citizens
OF influence. particularly women, are doing
more for the horses comfort in New York
than in Boston for example. Too much can.
not be said in commentator Of the work done
by the Horse Aid Society. for instance OF
which Mrs. Jacob Maurice Erich Is one OF the
leading spirits.
The efforts OF this society are In the mpor.
tant direction OF providing sanitary sta bling
for the horses OF poor peddlers, small express
men and others whose welfare depends on tho
work of their horses. Proper spirit was shown
by the New York Women's League for Ami.