| Show SHOULD COM AT Clergymen en In Manila bare petitioned the government for tor an order oror prohibiting the tle t e noble sport vt if cockfighting In our new new No doubt they the are act actuated actuated by b the best of motives In this mat matter matter ter for tor that sport Is la degrading It I It Is I to conceive of the tho composition of at a 1 human mind that can find In the mat mail mad contest between any nn brutes U It I would bo be as us difficult to tn decide as us 18 to which of ot time the parties partes ore the morally lowest those who furnish turn Ish the tho sport or those who vho find amusement In the spectacle should be pro prohibited d dAt At the same saie time time the reform move moe movement ment should commence at home Not ot mug ago aco highly cultured sportsmen of ot New ew ev York amused themselves by Jy slaughtering Innocent pigeons Many III of these wore were maimed and and were found oulI dying In t afterwards anti and some gome wore Were pro bably not found nt at It all al In the tho secluded where they had ha sought out a I apiece place piece In itt which to die As long as this Ii is I considered re highly cultured sport fit nt I even cen Ct for tor ladles eyes OIS It I Is la absurd to prohibit the comparatively civilized duels between feathered combatants work orl like charIty should immense nt at lt home the righting lighting Instinct In animals U Is 1 evidently pI t one of or their Olt endowments by Jy nature Intended the propagation tr f r only tini the et antI and ant healthiest Ht In iii of o the species sP The Time clel of animate Ii a Justified when food U IS needed nel Dut nUl to hI turn tur either lighting or r slaughter Into a I kind hind of amusement Is IA beneath human beings endowed with wih Intelli gence genco anti and m |
