| Show r TREAT ANIMALS HUMANELY The appointment of Dr T B Beatty as the Utah representative of the newly L organized National Animal Relief so society society cannot fall faU to give an Impetus to the movement for more humane treat treatment treatment 1 ment of dumb animals In this state Mrs Minnie Maddern Fiske who is re regarded regarded as Americas most talented actress is the real founder of the so society clet To this work she has given many hours of her busy life and the t good she has done can neither be mean nor described The humane treatment of animals is not a fad with Mrs Fiske All her life she has been Interested in the work a and all the time she could s sare are from her art has been devoted to It She said Fald in a little talk a short time ago agoV V Mans Mens Inhumanity to man often taxes ones onos credulity but there Is one I thing still more thing that dwarfs all else In compelling the conclusion that mankind Is as yet et morally and Intellectually unfit to go goern gov govera era ern the affairs of a planet I speak of mans almost complete Inability to per perceive elve or understand his dut duty towards the dumb beasts of the earth which are placed here at his mercy Mans lIans k cruelty to animals transcends all his other crimes all his sins of omission or orl l commission Ever since I have been able to think 4 this one fact in cruelty to dumb seemed seamed to me the most terrible and terrifying of life The feeling is not born of j every Intelligent soul the claim of the 5 human being must and ever should come before the claim of the dumb beast But that does not alter what I Ij j believe to be the mans mansI I cruelty to animals is the saddest thing that may be contemplated In life L The numerous organizations devot devoted ed to the protecting of animals Invariably r bly are the poorest societies in the world Nearly Nearl all or of th m struggle to toI I exist The work prospers because of the devotion of the few The rich rarely help Money In aid of the work comes 4 for the most part from the poor An AJ in all human affairs gentler sweeter and more sensitive in in sti stin of ma kin to the poor s see i 0 have a g grot t advantage I over the rich richI I do not think there thero ev ever r was a rich richman richi i man who was a goner y man Rich Richi i men give lavishly bl bt t th they y never nevel are generous In the true sense ot of the tho word They never nover give In proportion to what they have The poor man often is gen generous lr erous crous Half Hal the world of society is absorbed in its own crude pleasures There is IsI I indeed a better half which sometimes may be appealed to and of course a afew afew few rich men easily could abolish all k the more terrible features ot of cruelty of every kind But this subject for the most part does not seem to Interest j them The work In Utah must not be per permitted perI I to lag Dr Beatty and those associated with him are not only en entitled entitled titled to the sympathy but to the ac active actIve tive coop cooperation oration of all good citizens 1 It should not be hard to organize here i a flourishing branch or of the society 4 the effort to do so has failed we shall refuse to believe that there are not enough people In Utah Interested in such a movement to keep koep It going fl |
