Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-06-19
JUSTICE FOR ANIMALS THEMEOF :,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO BOOK

enlprit md desires TO move q Judge OF
unswerying rectitude TO grant him
Mercy" Mercy. iorsooth, What
animals require. and what Il Is our
duty TO accord them. Is plain elemen.
tary "Jastice.~ and until we educate
ourselves up TO the proper conception
OF our duty In so doing. we do hut
skin and film the ufcerous wound,
whilst rank corruption. mining al. In
fects unseen.
Two facts are very obvious IN this
book The first Is. that the author Is
amin tied by quite the right spirit
The horse Is put in his right position:
not as . cringing guilty suppliant; not
as something. the exercise OF our good
qualities upon whom may I'll rs to
our eyes With self-eomplacency; but
as a fellow-worker With us who should
be treated justly-and whom Il will
gay 70 treat justly The second Is.
that il Is apparent that Mr. Cox. I'm
adyoo atiRg the claims OF horses par
ticularly and animals generally. has
run up against precisely the same fac
tors producing cruelty TO animals as
| found in my soiourn IN the East End
OF London producing cruelty to men,
and which | have found all the world
over There is the same general r.
norance that such things are: skepti-
cism that they can be; and bland SAT.
isfaction that someone or other Is look
Ing after them. There Is the same nc.
ceptance and federation OF cause and
effect There Is the SINE indifference
to il all. There are the same illogical
~, though sincerely, conceived meth.
DDS for dealing with II by dear good
/ people whose easily-aroused emotions
impel them to deal with but one little
effect at time and so prevent. them
! from recognizing that II il only one
little effect OF a cause producing thou.
sands OF other similar. and which
numb their analytical faculties so thai
their minds never grasp, or even con.
slider. that cause. And there are the
same opportunities -even more So
for the subject being dished up By
mere exploiters for their own person
al ends, with sauce whereof Il may
be said that the sauce Is Favored
and sometimes very family favored.
! by the meat. And above 81, there Il.
to the reasoning mind. the same un
!. pecessariness. fha same fafuonanesa.
the same silly waste OF good material.
In II all. And. dependent upon II. the
! man who works 70 better the cOndi.
tons Of his snb-hn1llan brethren n
| any respect. in doing 50 Is working
to benefit his own kind
| have noticed another startling
omission in this book. fact so strik.
Ing that ] thought conld hardly hare
been reading a book about animals
at all. Dumb Animals, The, good
/ folk who write and talk about dumb
] animals are those who evidently have
the lest authority for expatiating on
the subject. You might as we'll talk
about dumb piano. No animal ever
yet was dumb To any man or woman
who had taken tronble TO acquire his
language. This phrase dumb AMI
mails --is founded upon exactly the
same unfhinkingness that induces Ms
English-speaktng people to marvel WHY
"foreigners" are so misguided and
/ preiHdiced as to speak q language
4 other than ours. No animal, given
/ opportunity for the exercise OF his In,
4 tellect and the culture OF his imagina-
| ton. was ever yet dumb: and the
sooner we throw dumb" after mer.
cys on TO the scrap heap, the sooner
I we shall be properly armed for the
cause OF righteousness TO animals. OF
the forms of cruelty to horses special
" dealt with in this book, there are
some, such IS docking. which are
due to senseless fashion and to .
trade interest. and which might be
abolished at once. There are othert
which are dine Tn q lack ~ Elm .41&