The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1914-05-29
WHEN POT CALLS
THE KETTLE
BLACK
Fasteners Greatly Excited Over Al
legged Cruelty to Arizona Sheep.
Governor Sends a Scathing Reply to
One Good Sister in Delaware.

PHOENIX, May 26.--.etters pro-
testing against the cruelties alleged to
be inflicted upon sheep in Arizona
shearing camps continue to pour in on
Gov. Hunt. A number of celebrated
persons, including Mrs. Minnie Mad
den Fiske and George Arliss, have
written the governor.
One New York woman became a
little mixed and asked the gorvenor
to use his influence to have the
cattle treated more humanely while
being sheared.
The following letter came from the
Delaware Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals:
LAS the inhuman treatment of
sheep in your state during the shear
ing season has begun to attract at
tention and arouse indignation, even
as far east as the Atlantic coast,
am requested by a unanimous vote
of the Delaware S. P. C. A to write
to you to beg you to lend your in
fuence to a movement looking to the
better protection of the wool bearing
animals in your safe, either through
the enforcement of such laws as you
may have, or the enactment of strict
er laws.
Reports come from all sources
that sheep are most brutally handled
in the corrals and badly cut through
careless shearing SO much so that
thousands die either from the cuts
of their flesh or from exposure to the
cold after they have lost their fleece.
Much of the blame is placed upon
union laborers who work by the
piece and who in seeking to increase
their earnings cut and hack into the
flesh with their sharp shears.
Can you not in the interest of hu-
manity do something to mitigate this
cruelty in your state?'
Gov. Hunt in his reply stated that
he thought the people of a state
which still maintains the whipping
posts for humans should have little
time to worry about the sorrows. of
sheep in Arizona. His reply reads:
your letter deploring the alleged
of sheep during the
shearing season in Arizona, has had
my attention, and I fully expect that
he necessity of observing humane
methods in the handling of sheep
will be subject of discussion and
possibly of legislation during the next
meeting of the state legislation.
Il trust that you will pardon me,
however, should I point out that
While 1 appreciate the commendable (
motives which animate the people of j
ng sheep, there is certain incon-
istency exhibited in the fact that /
our state still retains in it's statutes !
provision for the employment of !
he whipping post in penal institu- !
ions. Although 1 may be fallible in !
his particular, 1 am strongly of the !
opinion that the brutal and inhumane
reatment of one human being far !
ffsets the physical welfare and COM !
ort that may be secured for the !
heep of the western states through
he humane endeavors of the people /
f Delaware. Should your society
nd the many good people who doubt
ess are connected with it, so extend
heir labors as to safeguard human
eings from brutal mistreatment in
delaware penal Institutions he ulti-
nate contribution to the whole cause
f humanity would in my opinion,
realty outweigh the good resulting |.
rom crusades for the prevention of 4
ruelty to sheep, however, commend
BILE the latter movement may be.
Il desire to assure you in conclu-
ion, that the foregoing remarks are
fered in the best possible spirit
nd will, therefore, be the occasion
Or no offense."