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Show oo THE DOG CATCHER AND CHILDREN. One of the assistants of the dog catcher proceeded down Twenty-fourth street yesterday, dragging a shepherd dog by a rope attached to the neck. The dog held back and at last dropped to the sidewalk. The man at the rope halted long enough to loosen the noose, to allow the animal to breathe. Then the dragging again started and continued until the man and dog disappeared in the direction of the crematory. This reminds us that these exhibitions exhibi-tions of brutality are all too frequent. Nearly every day the Standard Is called on to register protests against this mistreatment of dumb animals. Children see these acts of cruelty and they either are saddened or hardened hard-ened by the sight. Pet dogs now and then are captured and pulled along in the same way before crying, pleading youngsters. Wo do not see any good In all this mistreatment of not only dogs, but of children. Wo agree with the Logan Journal that tho tax Itself Is an injustice because be-cause It Is too high. That paper says: "In our opinion a mistake was made when tho tax upon dogs was fixed at threo dollars, and 'the ordlnanco should be repealed. The sole object of a dog tax is to rid a community of worthless and really homeless curs, and not to impose a burden upon the owners or dogs. The old tax of one dollnr was sufficient to pay the expense ex-pense incurred In Its collection, and for the destruction of the homeless dogs and the curs so worthless that the owner would not n.iv thn sincle dollar required to keep them. Generally Gen-erally speaking, dogs are not a pub- . He nuisance to be suppressed by law. Cattle dogs, sheep dogs and watch dogs are really valuable, aud many I dogs of no particular intrinsic worth, i are kept as pets for the pleasure of I children. Dogs are numbered among the most useful, and tho most faithful I servants of mankind, and there should I be no penalty whatever Imposed upon ' the one who keeps a dog, further than I a slight tax to pay for the destruction 1 of homeless .dogs that are a nuisance, P and may becomo a menace to the community. A man's right to keep a dog should bo no more questioned or infringed upon, than his right to keep a horse. Some people professing . ultra refinement express a distaste for dogs, and when brought in con- I tact with them It Is soon seen that 1 the dislike is mutuaL When such g persons are found, examination will disclose tho fact that they are either of cold, cruel nature, or they will bear watching. In this case a dog is the best possiblo watchman. 'You . can't fool' a dog when It comes to U the detection of those who are not n to bo trusted. The imposition of 1 a three dollar tax mny reduce the n number of dogs, but It Is doubtful If I It will add to the revenue dorlved from the dog tax. Believing It to B be in effect a flue for keeping a dog, I people will feel Justified In evading payment if possible; and if forced g Into court the prosecution will lack public sympathy and IndorscmcnL In 1 many cases the payment will also In- " filet a hardship, in poor families that would rather make any possible sac- rlflce, than to have the harmless fam- fj Uy pet destroyed. Tho tax upon dogs H should be reduced to a figure barely sufficient to pay the expenso of hunt ing down and destroying the homeless 8 ones that may becomo dangerous." I |