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Show DO HUMANE WORK. EXCELLENT RSOgflg OF WEST ERN SOBtETtE3. Colorado Claims the Best Association for the Protection. "WUflr'n and Animals OthcgfSfSies to Take That as.Model. Tn a paper lead UofOW.lho tlili'Mli annual lneetliiR of ill'O AiUOJlcHn llu mane RBsoclallon, hold Hi ClilcBgo, II S. Mann ot Omnlin inndo. Uie foltw lug statement: With two or thiee cx&epUous ihrir aro humane organisations In- all the states and territories wrjst of Hie Mississippi, but mnnyoT thorn me local and active only In a city or county, And ome exist only in name It is claimed that; Colprfldg. has the host state organization for tho protection pro-tection of children and nnimnls, in that It accomplishes undor Its ss tern cohering a largo field more results re-sults for the monoy expanded than an other humane organization In the country. Tho Colorado Humane so ciety. without losing Its existence or identity as a corporate body, was In 1901 constituted by act of legislature "The State Bonrd of Child and Ant mal Protection." " Tho governor, at torney-general and suparlntendcnt of public Instruction are ex-oflloio mem bers of the board of directors. Th.-state Th.-state appropriates $2,500 to $3,000 a j ear. and other receipts make up a revenue for tho society of ab'oht $ 000. Seven hundred and fourtee-i arents are scattered throughout the state, remote parts being looked after "about as well as in the city of Don vcr. Perhaps In no other state is serious effort mado to enforco the law for child and animal protection in small communities and In rural districts tho same .is In the Cities. The Nebraska sorlety has decided to ask the next legislature for a state board of child atid animal protection Montana ha3 one modeled on the Colorado plan, with the essential dlf ference that Its officers are political appointees, and, a a consequence, generally Ineflclent. Tss.e are vry active organizations In Kansas C .y, St. JoseH, Mlnneup oils, St. Paul, Des Moines, Omaha, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Port land. Counril Bluffs Is about to or gan(ze a soc.ty with the mayor for piesldent and the chlof of police' as one of its directors. Eight western states have specified laws In relation to the doaking of horses' tails, vlz Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota. UtaK. Colorado. WashliiE ton, Oregon and California The laws on the subject onncted in some of these states are not practical, as un der them, In order o successfully prosecute, It JsaoceKSJ to-stoii. the offender In the act. In Nebraska n reward of $30 is offered for evidence that will convict of this offense The Michigan law, passed In 1U01. uud the Colorado act. ot ISM should bo considered by us In asking for legislation legis-lation In the future. Nebraska, Iwa, Colorado and Oregon Ore-gon have specific laws prohibiting the uie of live blrdi. for targets. In California Cali-fornia about four years ago our friends secur 1 a conviction under tho general cruelty act for shooting pig eons released from traps California, C-lorndo, . 'ssomi nnd Oklahoma have humane education laws The statement has figftn made that the Oklahoma law Is the beat In the country. Child labor Is not the grave propo p'tlon with i1:a weat that It Ib in the cast and In t south, ar ! wo do not heat of much complaint. In many cities the truant officer or other oU ttclal makes a regular Inspection of factories and other places where chil dren may he employed tn see thnt the law is not violated. In all our cities there are vailous Institutions that look after tho welfare of children. chil-dren. i,very winter. 40,010,00r 9lpIeE8 oat tie suffer for want pf focd and drink on the western ranges between the Mlssouil river and the Pacific ocean, a :d very little Is being done, outside of tho state of Colorado, to relieve this condition of affairs. This and the transportation question are the great-sit great-sit problems In the humane work of U10 western stntes. |