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children, and the treatment of wives and husbands. A reason- 

 able blow with a whip to a mean and refractory animal in 

 captivity is not necessarily an act of cruelty. Every such act 

 must be judged according to the evidence. 



Art. 21. It is unjust to proclaim that "all wild animal 

 performances are cruel' ' and therefore should be prohibited 

 by law. The claim is untrue, and no lawmaker should pay 

 heed to it. Wild animal performances are no more cruel or 

 unjust than men-and-women performances of acrobatics. 

 Practically all trained animals are well fed and tended, they 

 welcome their performances, and go through them with lively 

 interest. Such performances, when good, have a high educa- 

 tional value, — but not to closed minds. 



Art. 22. Every bull-fight, being brutally unfair to the 

 horses and the bull engaged and disgustingly cruel, is an unfit 

 spectacle for humane and high-minded people, and no Christian 

 man or woman can attend one without self-stultification. 



Art. 23. The western practice of "bulldogging," now 

 permitted in some Wild West shows, is disgusting, degrading, 

 and never should be permitted. 



Art. 24. The use of monkeys by organ-grinders is cruel, 

 it is degrading to the monkeys, and should in all states be 

 prohibited by law. 



Art. 25. The keeping of live fishes in glass globes nearly 

 always ends in cruelty and suffering, and should everywhere 

 be prohibited by law. A round glass straight-jacket is just 

 as painful as any other kind. 



Art. 26. The sale and use of chained live chameleons as 

 ornaments and playthings for idiotic or vicious men and chil- 

 dren always means death by slow torture for the reptile, and 

 should in all states be prohibited by law. 





