Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-19
OUR HUMBLE SERVANT

Just as long as we find Weiberds here
and there serving as leavening in the
dough of humanity, we need not de-
spair of the uplift.
One doesn't have to form an init
mate acquaintance to know that the
man so constituted as to befriend in
it's uselessness the animal that once
was the pride of the track, is also a
non-believer in orphan asylums and
wife-beating and likely favors the
Sanders method of treating prisoners.
Such an act is clearly Photographic.
Unfortunately, there are other pic
lures not as pleasant. A late one is
that from Chicago: Horse lovers
throughout the country are all wrought
up over a story that the deliberate
binding of horses to make them more
tractable for use in the city has be-
come a regular business in the vest
ern metropolis.
To any one that has been privileged
to be much with horses it is common
! observance to note the delight with
which a horse views new scenes, and
the interest It takes in the life about
! it, Turning into a pretty lane, it points
! its ears, quickens the step and enjoys
/ as much as its driver the surrounding
| scenery. We feel infinite compassion
for the animal blinded from hard pull
ing or accident. How monstrous to
deliberately make sightless the al
ready burdened animal, depriving it OF
the simple joy Of interest in its sur
roundings. One shudders to contem-
plate the hideousness of such fiend.
It is abominable that false sense
Of fminding ones cwn business" per
mits of many of the cruelties to which
horses are subjected Overlooking
beating, ill-ftting Harness, starved foI
food and water-these are some of the
everyday trials of the working horse;
while the family nag is often a suffer
er from neglect and ignorance. Over
grown hoofs, corns, poor shoeing are
common conditions in the carriags
horse. Some owners of horses do no
seem to be aware of the tenderness O
the frog in the foot, of a horse, anC
allow pebbles and caked earth t
embed. To hitch a horse in the sun
letting it stand by the hour, is anothe
polite cruelty. Likewise, the ANNA
that goes without lunch while its mas
ter feasts.
Humane societies are very well il
their way: usually not AGGRESSIVE
enough If the officers of such had L
pull down the game to make their sa
aries, Messrs. Horse, Dog & Co woul
fare better. At Des Moines, for
number of years, woman held tn
Office of brute spatcher," and sh
amassed so many scalps and won sue
heavy filming that public sentiment 60
hot feet and helped with the goo
work. Every day was her busy day
and her trim little figure often scale
a load of black diamonds in deman
Of the drivers whip.
What is most needed to put an en-
to atrocities such as the Chicago on
and other cruelties, is less molly-cot
dleism on the part of the average CT
izen. Men boast of their red bloo'
but most often it, is a slim wisp Of
woman, who looks like she needed n
INFUSION OF Quart mat sho"S u
e nerve when it comes to defendir
h helpless animals. We need to get or
Ie the none of my business" attitude
le a person hasn't heart nor sense enous
+. to be decent in his treatment of al
n mails, then the first conner should tai
lie him for a pupil and give him poin
r. on the difference between liberty al
lie license. A Moliner the other day p
m up the unique plea, in extenuation
e. the beating he gave a horse, that
is was his property. Property rights
a. horses. dogs, children and men ha
IL their truly legal titles in the name
an All Wise Being.