Show il alia IT BE DONE L legislatures that are in session this winter are enacting laws benefit of tho people in their states arid lein tories and in many cases are consideration tho inhuman treatment ot dumb animals we are aware that in a comparatively new country ako utah legislators are generally loaded with petitions from their constituents asking for laws that will modify some irregularity with which they como ra contact in their respective spec tive callings or the creating of new roads changing ol 01 boundary lines and scores of other grievances or con that can bo madu for comfort protection and safety of life property and health Teni tories especially are tha duties of the law maker more la bonous than in an old settled state and it takes years to enact laws that will co er the main requirements of the people oftentimes the mos important lawa are overlooked because of the constant strain upon tho legislative mind and attention petitions from people who feel that their w should be immediately attended to by this continual clamor items of vital importance are left until some future and more convenient ahme butcho hour of adjournment journ ment draws nigh and two more years elapse before anything can bo done then it is that trifling matters soon become a great evil and the enat meni of laws for th suppression or coi of such evils becomes compulsory pul sory many cases aro on record where the people become impatient and enact and enforce their own which generally results in much barm and individual injury bat what wo most desiro to call the attention of our legislature to Is the inhuman and brutal treatment to which dumb animals aro subjected in utah we have frequently had occasion to mention the senseless manner in which ox teamsters horsemen and stock owners havo abused their and obedient servants the overloaded and jaded animals seem jio appeal to the sympathies of bystanders they expert none from their cruel taskmasters task masters that interference may ba interposed in their behalf it is an unfortunate fact that many men do not realize that a horie mule 01 ox has a particle of feel iner and yet if they would consider aha effect of the whip or the gead when aig porously applied common sense weald teach them why these faithful and oppressed animals work vitali ty and strength leaves them and they drop dead at their work or are turned out todio silence and actions speak louder and more emphatic than words and the necessity of a law for the pre or lucaj awu all mi be forcibly impressed upon the minds pi faur legislators than constant contact n ith teamsters in utah territory no where can this fact be p demonstrated than mining camp and among freighters some drivers themselves in handling a whip others in hauling acay loads making Jast an numerous crip and by the free use of profanity without ahe former and the latter many consid er themselves far below the and deftly do the most of them apply these in their avocation thit a person is sometime forced to that there is a school somewhere at which they were educated for their calling but it is not our purpose 0 o ask ahat a law be passed to pre vent tha application of the whip or tho use of profanity the former in tle hands of a man of judgment is necessary tho lauerhaas laUer has no effect upon the animals and is simply a habit more than a source of persecution se numerous slates could be named in which are laws fan ce for the prevention of cruelty to animals and tho force of thit law has proved a precious boon to aurb faithful and obedient creatures as the horse and ox drivers in those states can the whip and indulge in profanity but their teams do not look neither are marks of the whip so plainly visible as upon the sides of the jaded and depressed animals of utah we appeal in the name of humanity and in behalf of the overworked depressed and inhumanly treated horses and oxen of to the utah legislature to enact a law for the protection of these faithful animals to man so they can have a source of redress for their grievances and wrongs will it be done |