Show MRS FISKE SEEKING TO LESSEN TORTURES TOR TURES OF DUMB P ANIMALS Actress Sharply Arraigns American Civilization With Refer Reference ence enc to Vivisection Trapping of Beasts and Slaughter of Birds I Minnie Maddern Fiske has a mission Her mission is not alone to entertain thousands by her wonderful production of Salvation Nell not alone to dem demonstrate demonstrate demonstrate her independence of theatrical syndicates More than all else her mission is III to educate the American I people to better treatment of dumb ant ani animals I mals male Faultlessly attired in a a handsome suit of blue and a modish blue hat Mrs Irs Fiske needed no feathers and no stuffed birds to add to the charm of her per personality personality She never wears the bodies or 01 plumes of dead birds slaughtered to satisfy womans vanity and she never wears furs taken from animals animal trapped and killed after suffering untold agony agon Because thinks more of or the suffer suffering sufferIng suffering ing of 01 the dumb animals than of or fash fasti fashion ion lon Mrs Airs Fiske may not always be ultra I mode At the Knutsford hotel yesterday Mrs Fiske consented to an Interview on this thin phase of her uplift work She Sh has thought much on the subject and when she talked of the suffering of animals through cruelty or neglect of human beings her bel whole nature seemed imbued with sorrow and pity and with the thought that through her aid and that of the members of the human race all aU allover allover over the country much of this suffering might be spared Americas Darkest Stain The darkest stain on American Amerlean civilisation she said with emphasis Is our treatment of dumb animals Mans Man inhumanity to man often taxes ones credulity but there is one thing still stillmore more monstrous a thing that dwarfs dw all else in compelling the conclusion lon that mankind is as yet et morally and In Intellectually Intellectually Intellectually unfit to govern the affairs of a planet I speak of mans almost complete inability to perceive or 01 under understand understand understand stand his duty toward the dumb beasts of the earth which are placed here at his mercy meIC Mans cruelty to animals transcends all his other crimes all his I sins of omission or commission I Of the different forms of cruelty to animals Mrs Fiske places vivisection I at the head of the list as the very worst In speaking of this abuse she said she would repeat the words of a great scientist Vivisection is the inquisition the hell of science Continuing she said There are some phases of immoral immorality ity so 80 dark that men speak of them in whispers or do not speak of them at atall atall atall all Vivisection is one of these phases cf immorality No prisons no death cells no obscure haunts of vice ever have sheltered beings who have so per perfectly perfectly achieved the annihilation of the common sense of ot mercy as s the tors have hao achieved it All Alt cruelty to helpless things Is cowardice But to tomy tomy tomy my mind the exquisite cowardice of the Is the most perfect thing thine In immorality that the mind of or man can conceive Trapping Comes Second After vivisection Mrs Fiske places trapping as the next degree of human cruelty to animals Look out of the window she said Presently you will m see a carriage driven driven en cn by In it there may ma be a pr pretty iy woman who lies liea back blick in h her r soft furs Forgive her hor She is not wicked She is ts only dull and stupid and half alive She knows mows not what hat she sh does doe There Th re remay may b be dead bodies of birds on her heed head h d Mink tails may dangle about her herTo herTo herTo To one who realizes realises she is not charm charming lug ins She is repulsive and she ahe is pitiable pitiable pitiable ble Mrs Fiske speaks with a shudder of pity of ot the suffering of the cattle and the sheep on the plains in the long win winters winters tern With the advance of civilization she explains the desirable range land landIs Is rapidly being taken up for farms and the water is i being used for tor irrigation This results in th thi the crowding together of thousands of range cattle and sheep on barren country destitute of proper graz grazing grazing ing InK and water To the cattle and sheep barons she be suggests the bleaching bones of 5 6 i 10 or even evon 50 SO per cent of the animals starved to death on the barren plains represent ent only a loss in dollars donars and cents The thought of the tIle terrible suffering of the dumb brutes wandering about through the long bleak bl k winter searching for food and water w ter is of no I concern to them Abhorrence Ab of Bull Fights A phase of cruelty of which Mrs Fiske expresses es her abhorrence in no uncertain terms is the torture of ani animals mals male for public amusement amu ement as Is ie represented represented in the bull fights of Mexico Mrs I Fiske has made madell a careful study of bull bullfighting lighting fighting conditions in Mexico with a aview aview I view to taking the best steps to eradicate eradicate eradicate cate the medieval practice The bull ring she declares cannot exist without the support of the Amer American American Amerlean ican lean tourists te It is in the power of the American visitors visitor o abolish bull bun fight fighting fightIng ing In Mexico Tl TI have hare only to cease patronizing the sport Americans are urged to cooperate with the efforts of the Mexican Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Ameri Amen American can Humane association to stop this deadly pastime In the name of hu humanity humanity manity and decency d nc cut out the bulL bulU bulLfight bullfight fight from your program for tor Mexico |