Evening star., 1913-12-08

| which was lost but with 70. ce and with
cruelty have ye ruled them"
Looking back to the beginning Of
mans life on this Garth" said DR..
Smith. I'VE find that God gave man
dominion over the fish of the sea and
over the fowl of the air. and over every
living thing that moveth upon the
earth. But God never gave man that
power to be exercised or used In any
There never was a gift yet from God
which did not carry with 1t obligations.
duties and responsibilities. Mans ex-
ercise Of his power and his dominion
mercy and Justice: otherwise there will
be some day that fearful reckoning
which every unfaithful steward must
face"
the New Testaments against cruelty
to animals. and texts illustrating the
sacredness of the life even of spar
rows. DIR. Smith continued:
"Now. cruelty to animals, which the
Animal Protection Congress Is here to
do battle against, may be roughly
grouped under three heads.
Cruelty to Animals.
First. the cruelty of which our various
domestic animals are the victims. OF
these, perhaps the chief sufferer is man )
noblest servant and best friend. the horse.
From the rich mans horse, with his head
unnaturally held by cruel check-rein, and
whose tail has been insensately docted,
to the poor. beaten, battered, overloaded,
underfed, kicked and abused horses Of the
low-grade huckSterS and carriers. W hat
a vast sum total of animal suffering cries
to heaven for vengeance! Down in the
Humane Society rooms on III street yolI
will see the instruments of torture that
serve to deepen the feelings of horror al
mans blood-guiltineSS and his craven
.cowardice and base treachery to the dumb
animals that work for him and love him.
Here%iS an iron bar with which a carter
broke his horses shoulder bone i'll the
exercise of his dominion. Here is pitch
fork which was driven into another horse
because its driver had the power.
Secondly; that form of cruelty of
which the birds of the air and the wild
beasts of the earth are the victims. The
war of determination has gone on TO
such an extent that bird life has been re-
duced 80 per cent. 1t is said that in the
state of Washington a memorial stone
has been set UP TO the memory of twelve
different kinds of birds which have been
exterminated by civilized man between
1S4O and 1910 And the folly of it. the
incredible folly, surpassed belief. We
talk about the high cost of living, but
almost any friend of the birds can tell
the investigators the causes of that high
cost of living; that $500, 100000 would be
saved to the crops by letting the birds
alone. Indeed scientific men declare that
to raise crops without them would be Il
simple impossibility. In the state of Utah
there is another memorial stone-this time
sacred to the memory of the gulls which
ate the grasshoppers and saved the crops
in 1S4S. The birds do not ask for memo
rial stones. they ask simply to be per-
mitted to do the work God gave them
to do.
"Then as to the cruelty involved in
much of this slaughter. Do the women
of our congregations know the cost at
which the aigrettes which they wear in
their hair have been secured? They are
only to be obtained from the heron at
time of motherhood, SO the pothunters
hang around the nesting places and shoot
the mother bird and leave the baby birds
to vail themselves to death for the moth
er that never returns.
Thirdly, the cruelty which is covered
by the term vivisection. Literally vivi-
section means the cutting up of living
animals; but this is only a small part of
its full terror, which covers all kinds of
wounding, bruising, inoculating, changing
of vital organs, keeping an agonized an
imal under inspection for weeks, etc.
Fundamentally Immoral.
''Yet here we meet with the first note
of discord. Some believe in vivisection,
terrible as it is. holding that it Is bene
fetal to the human race. Others do not
believe In it at all, and I am frank to
confess that l am one of those who do
not believe in it all. First, l believe We
have no right to do evil that good may
come. so to me vivisection is fundamental
iy immoral. Second because 1 doubt
whether it has really done much good.
EminSnt medical men ike DR.. A. Wall and
DR.. F6rhes Winslow have challenged the
medital world to show the good 1t has
done DR.. WInslow, in particular. claims
that only 5 per cent of his profession be-
lieve in 1t. Third, because OF the evil eff
fects 1t must have upon the medical
practitioners themselves. believe our
medical men are among our noblest and
best citizens. They stand very high indeed
in their self-denying service to our COM
mon humanity. but the man does not live
who can practice cruelty and not himself
become in time as hard as the neither
mi lstOne.
ITO sum up the principles of the con-
gress which assemblies tomorrow and re-
we owe to the animals over which God
has given us dominion protection, kind
ness and mercy in the exercise of that
dominion. The most beautiful poem In
our English tongue owes its inception to
the feeling of responsibility for the just
treatment of the lower animals. The
mariner who wantonly shot the albatross
brought upon himself and his shipmates
untold misery thereby. He learned the
lesson at last.
He prayeth best who loveth best
For the dear God Who loVeth us,
He made and loveth all.
'Is there anything truer than this?
Anything better? Is 1t not an echo of the
Old Testament teaching, which is for us
still the sum total of the whole matter of
our common. duty and responsibility?
For what doth the Lord require Of
thee. Q man, but to do justly and to love