Show MILLIONS OF ANIMA STARVING IN SNOW NOT IN STRICKEN FAMINE-STRICKEN CHINA OR RUSSIA BUT IN I OUR OWN WEALTHY LAND LAND GREED GREED THE CAUSE B My ity 1 Dr Ji mam O. O St Stillman I ia I of ur f Al hal X N. V. V Y President of or tin tho til American meli humane IC A h A ca Now New ew York Tribune Ti As I write i i'S S words thet there are re literally ml- ml Hons lions of cattle on the great gleat ranges of ofHie S the Hie Vest est from Texas to Montana S 5 hl which h are arc on the extreme verge ot of ot S. k-S. starvation uton They The will wi continue to toSS toS'S S'S starve slowly lowly until spring Hundreds of o thol thousands will wi die and anal the the rest resl of 11 11 those C already pady starving will wH almost die ilie ele hut but not quite fule This happens e er every r year ear Stockmen count rl regularly regu regu- u- u 11 on a certain p percentage of oC lO loss Joys S from starvation thirst and atHI cold These aC are substantially the tho words of o an expert Western cst In investigator of stock abuses who is thoroughly fain fam- fal- fal Ul with the subject ct and atul has has lived l ed In that region all al his life There I IS a disposition on the part of S. S many people in the West Vest an and a few fewS S people in the thc Hast East to affect to believe believeS S that thai statements like lo the thc above abo arcH arc arc- H largely hal exaggerated and are arc caused by hy an nn excess of sentiment rather titan than I by real conditions of suffering Th The SI cruelty anti Crusade ru le Is past the stage of maudlin sentiment Misrepresentation 1 tion on Is IR not flOt rn cesary sary Mry in cases like Iee this t S Tin Tin- actual I condition is too unutterably c and avid unbelievably lm baiL bad baiLS S Lot LN mo me quote the lie statement of another nn- nn other Vc Western u In man nan concerning these conditions The rIte following was written writ writ- ton ten by hy Unie ex-Unie United ejr Sl Senator Paris Pari on n of Great Falls Fals Mont Add toi to- to to-i to i fleet to lose Jose from froni 5 to 15 lf per cent by starvation tar aton rn anyway ay If TI I it I becomes fromi from 2 21 i to 0 0 o per pCr cent it i Is merely a abaci bad year U The number of sl skeletons dotting dot dot- ting the great reat plains is nothing to t tI them ex except ept that the they represent dollars dol dol I lars and cents The They make malc no effort efort to Improve conditions This hellish work worl has hns gone one on year after year and it Is Isline time line that the thc voice of civilization and nUl Intelligent humanity should be he heat heard rhe The owners ownes O of these range cattle can cnn be la f educated The They can bo tIC made to see that thal If It I is a n pleasant thing for tor them to have three meals mols a da day and comfortable he beds It Il Is wron wrong for thorn thom lhor to have their helpless g he boosts beasts deliberately o cX exposed cd to 10 conditions where lingering ling hog ering death must inevitably cn ensue ue These respectable men mn bitterly resent an any an criticism One prominent Western estern newspaper when its Is attention was cJe called to these conditions on account of recent writings If df f mine jauntily re remarked re- re marked marIcel that I would better centre centro the tue efforts orts of the humane world on 01 the factory ami mining towns owns of if New Fn England Eng land where whet human beings beings are arc ground down year after year Ial There Is more suffering In one ela lay day among the thousands thousands thou thou- II sands of or dying nuel and star ln starving but not catte Seattle lying of ff if th the ranges s In the theN West N t than could be 10 I represented by hy any two t years ms m's of suffering among cc- cc tory ory and und other operatives cs In II the tue East ways parch parched with wih thirst always searching for something t to tU eat at where there is nothing always s s staring with dumb hopeless eyes blinded d. d swollen and amI festering from the suns sun's glare on the wastes of snow Imagine that and Imn Imagine lne yourself enduring one hour of o it I. I Multiply that period h by the slow mo ln moving days nn and nights from December De Do- cember to April J AprIl If if life lasts that long Multiply that b by forty millions and ami you hn have C the statistics of or brute su suf suffering fUr fUr- fering In this one way vay for one year nr an and every year Cr in this unspeakable trade c. c Tho Dally Daily of MIssoula Mont l recently contained the tho to following following follow follow- folo ing Bute Mont 1011 Feb liel 3 Conrad Conrad I Kohrs of Deer Lodge one of ot the most prominent stockmen of oC the tho state Is iu IRIn In Iii B Hutte UC ahl states that ho he is in receipt re receipt re- re of oC advices from froni the northern ranges that his stock losses lossos will wi reach about 80 81 per pel cent of his herds o J-o O hence Is the storm that I Is ho sweeping the thc tH northern districts of Montana Mr Ir Kohrs stat states s that the conditions In Valley county and anti the tho other big ctt cattle cat ct- t tlc tle and sheep sections I Is simply appalling appalling ap ap- palling the stock cl lying dying ing by ity ly tho time hundreds hun hun- I northern Montana Mon Mon- Ion Ion- The long plains of tana fann aria afford aroll the tho stock little shelter sheler from rota the stinging sweep o of tile thc snow and anti wind Unable to break the tho crust of or Ice ico covering time the grass of the tile ranges es the cattle catte and sheep huddle in bunches of from flom fifty to a t hundred in the tho coulees cou coil lees Ices there to drop from Hom toni exhaustion an and hUI hunger or and tile die Hunches Bunches of dead cattle catle catch tho the drifting snow which soon them cOI completely with wih tin tin- tl exception of a protruding leg or hea head These burial moun mounds s of or snow frequently Ire fre lot dot cot the ranges and only too fU plainly nt Indicate how hn fearfully the lie herds are arc being rava ravaged et b by the ter- ter rule weather prevailing Is rs it I not nota a rie that any animals survive v sur Il these terrible conditions fj ither all al the sufferings of or the animals ls i r I lt the Uie Eastern and Central states state the thc I tortures tures upon horses hOle dogs 1 Vand all al th the domestic te Ilca boasts beas ts nf C Ir Hell field and cI city streets a and 11 you vou have havo not y cruelty in in your t Ot enumeration I th equal one half half the of ot S the freezing freezing am and starving Ing cattle catte on our oUi S Western plains the terrible S toi-ms toi come upon UIn them and prevent preventS r S the them from securing food and shelter No human tan mind can com comprehend comprehendS S the tle degree rc of or suffering caused c luring during luring'S S 'S one winter torm that e leaves tens of p th thousands U IH I of or skeletons of o cattle Upon S l these thes plains this picture only faintly tells tho the story ItOI that God alone aloneS S i fall eg ps in its Is awful truth and nul anS ang anguish an an- S g 4 According to the the report ot of the S United States bureau of animal In Industry In- In there there- there we were weri In lit 1 1104 0 over 43 41 cattle calfe other than much mich co cows horses anti and mules In the United States Stales S not ot to tn mention menton sheep sheel and ulI 1 t hogs hogs I am cia giving tho the figS fig fig- tg- tg S ues ures in round numbers number Of or these catte cattie cattle cat cat- tie tle te over are arc range stock J u- u To bo ho ran range o stock means that cattle cattleS S must take cat care of themselves es as n best hest ih they y can from December to April AprilS Apri S when whon the ground is JS covered with wih snow anti and ani th there c is u no shelter anti and not a tOTI r of or water to drink In r nearly e all al case caseS S i riot not a pound of or hay hy Is provided noi riot S a wind bicak hieak or shed or overt even a well veiL Is it nn any Wonder r that stockmen n in iii the West ct est are are now openly making statements state state- S. S ments that they expect to lose 75 or 1 80 per cent ot of their herds In the 1 winter fer ot or 1 3 1302 3 on a single range ft in Iii Texas worth of or cattle I 5 died Ono One lar largo large e stock owner In Mon lon y c tann head of cal cattle e on II In value 1812 iii his llis rn ranges ls averaging 1 apiece according to ce census us estimates I expects to lose hose from 75 to 80 SO per cent before spring comes this year car It I Is 1 tho tile same mc everywhere e during this ter 1 S winter throughout the tho West cst The range cattle ale business In itt the thet the about t United States covers I square mules miles IlcH This Is JM almost thirty IS I times the tho size of all al New w England A great greal pait of ot tho ho area of or eighteen eighteenS S states and ami territories is is occupied b by it i. i The The value of the thc range stock I scents over not to men men- nearly nearl In lii sheep ton Such arc alO the conditions which confront con con- i S front humanitarians humanitarians- Tl It I was as much touch the tame fame forty years ear ago agn only now the conditions for tor the cattle are much worse S than the they were th then n. n Streams Stream I have ha e leon IHn fenced oft of h by barbed wire I fences and much of oC the tH land has been I I fenced in iii II Ten Teli Tel times t tire e number of oC if ifS calic cattle are arc now no dependent upon the the S f same H soil sol Water aler has hns been beti taken for tot fri hI gallon The rt lie shallow rooted prairie ju S grass is trampled under foot and gnawed nr to I the ground h 1 by starving 11 ng S S mouths t Anti And yet the number ther hber of or cat cat- I Increases anti and their lieu indifference I ence I or 01 II blind t y If I you rOl pilfer till thi term torm ju t same Willie while wile their lovis loses Increase Th They ex- ex We e people people In the East dan can not imagine imagine im Ira- agine the sufferings of or these poor beasts beaMs It 1 Is Ls the intention of or the American Ameri Anion can Humane association to send agents to tn I Investigate In and photograph these dying and amI dead elca range iange stock as soon oon as ns possible Vc e 0 ito arc rai raising money for fou lial fiat purpose e and Iw invite e contributions from an any one interested In an exposure expos ure of these diabolical conditions Wo Ve o must depend mainly on nn publicity for I curing this evil Publicity Pl wi will e the nece y sl le legislation and in time lime I will 1 convert crt con the tho cattle catle owners I have before me mo a wor word picture by bya byn I a n man living In lii the West rest for fOI a great glent many years Ca who is thor thoroughly r lamillar lam lam- Illar lar with wih present conditions affecting I livestock Imagine ln he says a s a sinIe single sin sin- ale gle Ie animal in December already gaun gaunt from hun hunger cl cold and ami thirst of thirst of the thc three thirst thirst Is If the most terrible terrible terrible-ima- ima gino Inc this wretched creature wandering about on oi an illimitable plain cO with wih snow with wih nothing ti to eat except here lucre arid arHl there rc burled r tile the te snoa snow sno ia 1 a sparse tuft tuf of oC scanty mo grass s I I eating snow now for days daM and weeks because be be- 1 cau cause c there thero is nothing to drink 11 by da la day wandering In u the time snow b by night 1 lying I down In It I swept b by plies pitiless winds wind I cud and icy storm always shivering hl ering with will cold nJ always ny ays gnawed with wih hunger al al- al |