"THE STRIKE AT SHANE'S." 



INTRODUCTORY. , 



I I I HIS story is intended to point out in a homely way 

 W I some of the mistaken ideas held by men in general 

 ®J^® in regard to the relations existing between the 

 human race and the lower animals and birds. 



The popular remedy of the laboring classes of the pres- 

 ent age, when the conditions of their employment become 

 oppressive, is to inaugurate a strike; and in the following 

 narrative sufficient intelligence has been accorded to the 

 lower animals to enable them to employ the methods of 

 human toilers in righting their wrongs. 



It is true the relation of employer and employee does 

 not exist between man and his domestic animals, but rather 

 that of master and slave ; and until the law-making power 

 takes some measures to regulate and restrain man's domin- 

 ion over them, it is left for the educators of the times to 

 appeal to an awakened conscience for an amelioration of 

 their condition. 



Men are often blinded by the glitter of gold to the bless- 

 ings that God has given us, and forget that our dominion 

 over the lower animals was given by a decree of the 

 Almighty, and that that dominion should be exercised in 

 the same spirit that God exercises his ruling power over us. 

 The following pages are intended to show the results that 

 would naturally follow if the support and assistance given u§ 

 by the loioer animals and birds should be withdrawn^ as wozild 

 J>e the case if they should exercise the same rights claimed by 



human toilers and go on a stnke. 



Author. 



