Show I 1 A PLEA FOR THE HORSES HORSE AND ELTY oy of THE I 1 GK rein it wo ald be quite its as sensible 4 to bit and curb carb a hod warriors head backwards by astrab buckling seat of his panta loons loon and to set him to c irry brick up u ind der in that hampered condition as to brace a horses horse neck sneek towards his hia tail as an aid in drawing a wagon waon or get getting tin g fast fait over the ground I 1 three things co conc dui aired red to establish this thiis stupid tyranny upon the horse in i england v ve e speak of but one thing was necessary to establish the cu custom stoin in the united st itei th that it was practiced practised by the cheeng edg 1 afe ufe I 1 a h notwithstanding our fourth th of july we five yet pat in a state of provincial Provina ial servility to the fashions and the opinions ini ansof of britain and we as inevitably ta take e the checkrein check rein from them as the sham democracy takes free trade from their transatlantic m masa as i to hold up tho the horses head and nd make inake him look grand among the grand institutions ot of englund england was undoubtedly the impulse to the use of the abeck roin it was also found that it was useful rn id evenly matching the gait and carriage of the no clemans alir some timid fellow Yellow bethought 11 him on an ancient occasion of us ing it assort of tie to a post holding th thus UR a spirited or dangerous 0 horse and quite economically too for lie he made hun ili hold himself in time too grew up in stables and hallsa ven venerable e r ab I 1 0 and obstinate belief that the check rein prevented the horse from falling nobody with the fox fok hounds at the clune timo proposed ed to take off tile th e squires sus per ponders ders and brace his jaws lt back ck with them by attaching them to his crupper cruber lie ile was wisely left to nature in his hid pursuit of the i fox why was not the noble animal he bestrode left lef t to its instincts and the law of its mechanical action we have frequently thought that the field of politics had bad displayed ved more of human stupidity than any other department of al a n tint A w w ampy that tat a it er and a more cousis consistent consi stant tant display asp ay or that attribute hi has leen been viade made in the laange the horse than in any other business I 1 man alin has undertaken in tills this wo world ra daw how few fe gentlemen how few surgeons evien know that a clorse should be treated precisely cis elyas aa we treat man his muscles muscle 8 are like ours and the laws that govern muscular and andner nervous rous action in his are arettie the same that we are subject to the laws of health are the same in horse Hora end and in man ind and the most mast intelligent int ellige 11 veterinary surgeons I 1 1 in n fran Fra joce ce german germany Y and england I 1 treat the interruptions of normal action in the two animal economie economies sin in precisely precis ply the same way and with precisely tile the same remedies now regard a german carrying bags of oits upon the dock from f roin a vessel to a warehouse house see natures provision for fop easily getting along with that job the man stoops stoop forward lie he stretches chas on out 1 his D neck ck I 1 the weight of his body is thrown in advance of his centre so as to ta give hun him a falling ten tendency denzy and in that way aid his motion how does overlook this tea teaching ching when lie he harnesses for dragging dra g ging ivick brick up a grade the horses horse head shead is pulled I 1 jak back towards his aaili tail and anchored I 1 there by the senseless and merciless check rein the arrano arrangement Z ement is natural unnatural un the animal is colstr constrained it ned by it he must inevitably evit ably lose strength th by bv it for it disturbs the elie vital foree force anz and induces injates an ala unnatural action a in the muscles of the neck head lip shoulders atia and mouth there is actually less energy and vigor vi 1 loft left for the limbs and a ild chest than there would be if the stupid contrivance tr were jerked off and thrown over o vor did nearest beares fence if reason cannot teach this promptly to any man just let him try the experiment by pitting a martingale upon himself and go to io wrestling or putting a check in the jaws of a boxer that shall extend down his big back to his belt who mi 1 0 beside the british bri tish use the check rein sav av 0 their free trade slaves slakes and general imitators the do french do not use it the germans do noti no if the indians indian and spaniards of south america Ar who lit eralia live on bor horseback and ari perfect hOrs horsemen dillen do not the Span spaniards lards of europe do not abt bor do the turks the observant and odst natural people in the flie world are free from the mischievous arror error it is strange to us that the english afla ourselves did not years and years ago reason upon the constantly witnessed fact that when the check rein was loosed at a tavern stoop or in a stable the poor horse always stretched out hit his neek neck and hunk down his hita head that was his language far saying that the strap hurt bim and wearied bemand that be was strat heartily glad to be relieved from it the g genius e that first proposed abl abe e mechanical ch feat of lif lifting tine himself i up by bi the seat of his bis breeches must aust baa lava abeen been the author of the theory that the check rein held the horse up and kept him from falling the mechanical anical action in the two cases must be precisely the saiad sanae if tread the reader will reflect for a moment be will see that no na suspending power dil can be derived except from wilb wil hout out the til animal A post tree or beam is just as indispensable to the support 4 of a horse as to the support sup of a man intent on suicide A horse ean can liling hang himself up in the air by the on his back any mor moret tian a man can by y pulling upwards at his handkerchief the check rein should be abolished it wastes mot motive iv e power its use is unhealthy for it disturbs the otherwise natu naturally rilly and equally distributed vital forces it shortens t ens the life of a horse it diminishes I 1 his speed and lessens the freo free and quick i action so essential to the animals safet safety q and that of his driver it is of no 0 use se and can not confer dignity 0 or grace to ai an animal achal that was made by the inq lierd rd had inan man got up the horse check chee reins and n all sorts of contrivances would a allowable allow able not 44 but perhaps necessary but bull the wort of the preat artist cant caunt bo be imp unproved raved supoj J the democracy v I 1 |