Show CRUELTY TO ANIMALS in nearly every city and town on the eastern part of the united states a humane society has been organized and humane officers have been given authority to enforce the laws governing those organizations A mighty good work could be done in that line right here in brigham and many a horse whose looks portray cluel treatment by its owner would feel to rejoice and thank those who take an interest in his welfare because animals cannot speak is no good reason why they cannot feel and a horse is one of the highest in the animal kingdom which is all the more evidence of his ability to understand the difference between good and harsh treatment there are teamsters in ili this city who would be severely dealt with in a corn com where where a humane society exists a course which would be very good in some cases tor foe the lesson might be remembered it is a shame and disgrace tor for a man to drive a poor jaded horse when lie he ought to be turned out on green pastures to recuperate it Is also a crime to mercilessly beat an all animal it may need some correction at times but kindness will win out every time following is a good article clipped from our dumb bulb animals which can call be read and acted upon by ill all teamsters with profit HORSE SENSE there is a firm in washington whose business requires the use of a big number of delivery wagons on the back rest of the drivers seat in each wagon there are painted these words be good to your horse par far from maudlin this sentiment deserves to be recorded in letters of gold wise and humane at ill all times it will during the next three months have a meaning more weighty than at any other season of the year this motto is hidden from the world yet always faces the man to whom it appeals as he climbs into hla his seat and takes the reins in hand the th of the little sentence cs lies in ili its moral character an agent of the humane society can call hold up a brutal driver and a policeman can call liala late him before the courts such a course is likely to provoke a A beshe for revenge rei enge and it is only to too probable that this beshe will be wreaked wrecked on the inoffensive animal under conditions of time and place known neither to the friend of the beast nor to the upholder of the law but these few plead to the most heartless and serve as a needed i check to heedlessness or a passing fit ot of temper the automobile has doubtless come to stay but the horse has not departed on the lot hot asphalt in the paddock or down the last stretch on derby day lie counts and in every case the force of the injunction on the back of the delhery wagon seat will have its application the merciful man mail is merciful to ill his breast washington post |