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Show j ;l Abuse of Dumb I - Animals in I I South America 1 1 J By John W. Hoffman Ii J j I I would liko to tnko tho person who H ' said that ho had boon twlco around H I ' ' tho world and that Jerusalem was tho M I cmolest placo ho had over visited, M H to Mexico and certain countries In M I South America. Tho natives of Pal- bbS M estlno aro cruel to animals, no doubt. H D How can thoy bo different? Ignorant, H I Ij pitifully poverty stricken and over- H I J taxed as they aro; cultivating their i I soil today as they did before tho time m ' ot Christ, with wooden plows and B i animals of different broods harnesaod B I together. Yet they cannot for one J moment comphro In cruelty to n raco B I that tortures bulls and causes them M V to gore defenseless and blind folded HBV It horses In an arena for public pastime. I i In overy country! whero Uio Span- M j lard has left .his foot print, from the M llo Qrando to Capo Horn, torturo of H n dumb anlmHls prevails. H E I shall not go Into details of a bull f flent; thoy aro not ploasant. I j Jack London In a short atorr, pub- M I llshcd somo time ago, told or an Am- f erlcan, bno John Harned, who wit- 1 nessed a bull fight in tho ring ht Kl Quito. Tho fight might Iiavo midod M ,vlUl tho usual results had not the, Hn 'K John Harned gono mad whon a horso screamed from torturous pain. f Tli cm tho American turned Ulmsclt w I upon tho tormentors ot defenceless S ( beasts and never In tho history ot H ' nil Quito's bull ring was so much lni- Hl mnn blood shed as on tills one event- Hl ful day. Fiction, no doubt, but a splr V Jt P whlto man with a heart can help 1 from having whon witnessing sueh ffl Bights. ft i 1 0n Ul L,S Pampas of Argentine l ' mules and horses aro raised In count- HB : Jess numbers. Tho mules nro ship- B. 1 ra nB nro catUo, many hundrcfa of HK miles, sometimes around tho Horn, Hl i without food or water, Motiy of Iho BU ) '""'oa used In Peru are shipped from kJhI Argentine. I have nover so?n n mulo working in Peru with a collar that fitted, henco necks and shoulders arc-invariably arc-invariably covered with sores and galls. Near tho Httlo town of Samnnco on tho north coast .of Peru I once witnessed wit-nessed the hauling of sugar from a plantation . Largo two wheeled carts drawn by six mules are used. Collars with chain or rope traces and a sore of rawhide hackamoro tor a bridle complete tho harness. The drivers use no lines but guide tho mule with heavy lash whips with short stock. Never in my llfo have I witnessed such beating and lBBhlng ot animals. Tho drivers do not allow their teams to atop to breathe but instead beat them till they actually fall from sheer oxhaustlon. Many teams I wltnossod hero nind all In the same condition. Raw from the tips ot their long ears to tho ends ot their thin tails; sides blooding horribly from contact with tho uncovered hemped ropes used as traces, collar soros long since niado chronic from collars that nover did fit and aro nover scraped; jo'e3 no foul that tho stench from them would hardly permit a closo Investigation. Tho S. P. C. A. would bo a strong factor hero woro It not for ono thins, viz: It would bo too modern. IIowov-or IIowov-or It must como at no distant day. Education Is tho formula, that ruuet bo applied In such countries and lot us hopo that this too may soon come. Dumb AnImals. |