The Washington herald., 1913-12-12
WEARERS OF FUR
ARE DENOUNCED
Miss Lind-Af-Hageby's Re-
marks Make Some of Her
Hearers Blush.
MONKEYS ARE PRAISED
Speaker Tells Ani-Vivisection Con-
MONKEYS ARE PRAISED
Speaker Tells Anti-Viyisection Con-
gress Theory of Relationship
Is Not Distasteful.

While half dozen women in her audi
ence blushed and looked uncomfortable
in handsome sealskin coats. Miss Llnd-af.
Hageby, of London, in the closing ses-
sion of the International Anti-Vivisec-
ton and Animal Congress at the Raleigh
late yesterday afternoon, declared that
women who wear sealskin coats ought to
be ashamed of themselves.
The women who wear sealskin coats
are as cruel as the men who get the seals
and bleed them alive for women-ig-
norant and shamefully ignorant women
to wear on their backs" she said.
Miss Lind-af-Hageby admitted that she
did not find the theory of a relationship
With monkeys an unhappy doctrine, and
mat she had a monkey once who was
Tar brighter and far more charming
than many human beings ] know.
~ assure You that were you to study
monkeys closely, as 1 have studied
monkeys, their little lives, their little
hearts," she continued, you would not
only find it less difficult to accept the
evolution idea; you would positively find
certain parental instincts and relation
ships that you might be delighted to &C
knowledge"
The congress before it adjourned adopt
ed resolution, presented by Rev. DR.. c.
Ernest Smiths committee, which called
upon the United States government to
appoint a committee of investigation to
consist of members of both houses, to
investigate the textbooks used in public
schools, which contain the equivalent
of instruction of cruelty" and to pass
legislation to secure and enforce a closed
season of five years which Will check
the wholesale slaughter of birds which
threatens the total extinction of some
species.
To Meet I'm Brussels.
The congress agreed to meet in Brus-
sells, Belgium, next year and the details
will be arranged when representatives or
the five organizations affiliated with the
congress meet an Philadelphia next fep-
ruary. Officers also will be elected.
A pathetic feature of the concluding
session was an appealing address made
by Henry Z. Lanius, the blind state
assemolyman, of Pennsylvania, on the
danger of experiments OH human beings
The assemblyman had the subject very
close at heart, and in particular, said:
''Vfvisection is d relic OF barbaric days
and must be stamped out. II is cruel
and bears no results.
Mr. Tanius cited the case of a twelve
year-old child who lost his sight through
experiments with vaccine by physicians
in a Philadelphia hospital
There Is no more tarocious crime on
record he explained, than that OF the
family physician who takes advantage OF
defenseless patients and deIenselesS
women to practice vivisection on them.
Il say let women have their rights.
do not hold with many that If women
get the vote all human wrongs Will De
righted, but from personal observation
of PENNSYLVANIA institutions, have
noticed that the most successful ones
are those that have the cooperation OF
women.
After all. the greatest objection to
human vivisection is that it is pracuced
on the victims without their knowledge
II these scientists are so devoted to the
progress of science why don't they prac-
flee on themselves and then they could
tell all the symptoms every hour of the
day and night much better IMAM the
victims could tell them"
All Trace Back to SnVages.
The savage is the ancestor of all
higher men," said Prof. J. Howard Moore,
of the Crane Ethical School, Chicago, In
n spirited address, there is not a man
living who can trace his pedigree back
INDEFINITELY into the past without coming
upon a naked lowbrowed savage as his
ancestor. A man who will treat a dog
or a guinea pig as if it were an inani-
mate thing has the psychological equip
nent to hold human beings as slaves in
a little dinner age than the present.
TO sum it all up, vivisection in the
hands of those without sympathy for the
sufferfngs of the humblest of Gods
creatures always will be abused always
will be what il is today, largely pas
time and a hobby"