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Show USELESS If LICT1 OF PAPEPLOB Rockefeller Institute Is Denounced De-nounced at Anti-Vivisection Congress. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. Cruelty to animals by viviscctors and needless infliction in-fliction of pain in any othor form were vigorously denounced at tho opening session here today of the International Anti-Vivisoction and Animal Protection Protec-tion congress. The speeches ranged from a bitter attack by Edward H. Clement of Boston, presidont of tho congress, upon tho Rockefeller institute insti-tute experimenters, to denunciation by Ernest Thompson Sctou against cruel mothods of trapping animals. "Imagine it proved," Mr. Clement declared, "that your healthier acalp or sounder liver Is 'indicated,' as tho physicians say, for Mr. Rockefeller's baldness and dyspepsia. Aro you willing will-ing that Mr. Rockefeller's jugglers should take you or one of your sous, and setting up -our survivors in an affluence af-fluence thoj' nevor dreamed of, proceed to scalp you, painlessly, of course, perhaps per-haps with praversJ Here in tho United States is the largest mass in tho world of 'tainted' wealth and the whole toppling mass stands crowned with the Rockefeller institute. There is enthroned en-throned man 's superior cunning and power wreaking itself on animals as erstwhile humanity." J no United btatcs. Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Finland. Sweden, Swe-den, Norway, Denmark and Belgium aro represented at tho congress, either by delegates prcsont or by papers or letters from prominent workers of thoso couutricR. Dr. Hamilton Biggar of Clovoland, personal physician ot John D. Rockefeller, Rocke-feller, spoko in favor of restriction of vivisection to the smallest possible proportions. pro-portions. Miss Lindaf Hagcby of London, famous fa-mous English worker in tho movement, declared that anti-vivisectionists were not sentimentalists or enemies of science sci-ence or of medicine, but thnt thev wished to cleanse science and medicine of some of their mistakes. Ernest Thompson Soton eaid there was no good reason why skins of animals ani-mals should not bo worn, but there should be no unnecessary suffering for the animals. He deplored tho ubo of the steel trap, in which, he said, "animals "ani-mals are somotimes held for "days or wcek3 boforo the' slowlv starve or freeze to death." Frederick P. Bellamy of Brooklva declared no investigation could bo forced of reports that at certain hospitals hos-pitals children were inoculated with, serums of loathsome diseases bv ex-" perimcnierg, and dangerous tests "were often performed on healthy, ignorant people. He said one physician had acknowledged ac-knowledged in n recent issue of a medical medi-cal journal that he had sprayed the poison of smallpox, scarlet fever and diphtheria in'o the throats and Inugs of seventeen healthy pemons whom he was treating, as they supposed, for catarrh of the throat. Secretary Bryan spoke today for tho president. "Because you are interested in a great cause," he said, "becauso your interest is unselfish, becauso you aro devoted to something which you believe be-lieve will boncflt the world, as tho rop-rosentativo rop-rosentativo of the president and tho administration T welcome you and hope your investigations will reBult in blessing bless-ing to the world." Senator Gallingcr of New Hampshire, Hamp-shire, a physician, sent a letter to tho convention saying there was over' reason rea-son to believe that in some hospitals pauper children were "inoculated with loathsome diseases to seo the results re-sults that will follow." Ho expressed himself ns utterty opposed to vivisection, vivisec-tion, except under strictest regulations, and said ho hoped to seo a law passed on tho subject. |
