*'WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY HUMANE 

 EDUCATION, MR. ANGELL?" 



I answer. 



(i.) That which tells the ill effects on htimaii being!', of the ill treat- 

 ment of dumb animals — how it poisons meats and milk — how even fish, 

 killed mercifully as soon as they are caught, are better and more whole 

 some food than those that stcffer h&ioxe. they die — how important bisect 

 eating birds are to agriculture — how important that they and their nests 

 be protected. 



(2.) That which teaches how atiimals should be cared foi as to tight 



check reins, blinders, docking, proper food, rest, protection from the 

 weather, exercise, kind words, and a merciful death. 



(3.) But infinitely more important, that which 

 tends to prevent all cruelty y both to our own a?id the lower 

 races, 



(4.) Through over sixty years of my own life I can remember the 

 songs and stories of my boyhood. They have influenced mv rvhole life. 



(5.) While all the other ■A7nerica7i Colonies rvere at war with the 

 Indians, the Colony founded by William Penn rested t7i perfect peace. 



(6.) In 1S78 I called upon President Hayes, at Washington, to ask him 

 to put in his annual message to Congress something in regard to the 

 cruel transportation of animals. He said : " Wheti I was at school I once 

 heard a sermon in regard to animals, zvhich I have never f org otte7i " / and 

 he put into his 7nessage to Co7igfess al77iost verbatim what I wrote. 



(7.) In 1S75 I addressed the Faculty and students of Dartmouth Col- 

 lege, 07t the relation of a7iimals that can speak to those that are diiittb. 



In 1885, ten years later, at the close of an address to the Faculty and 

 students of a university in New Orleans, a gentleman rose in the audi- 

 ence and said: '^ Some tenyears ago I was a stude7it in Dartmouth Col- 

 lege, whe7t Mr. A7ig ell gave a7i address there 07i this subject. I had 7iever 

 thought of it before. Whe7i I left college no 07ie thought was more 

 strons^ly impressed 07i my mind tha7i that of 7ny duty to the lower ani- 

 mals." He was the superintendent of the public schools of Minneapolis. 



(8.) In iS7oand'7i I spent about six months, and about six hundred 

 dollars, founding, at Chicago, the Illinois Hiuna7ie Society. Although 

 every daily paper in the city helped me, and printed columns I wrote, I 

 should have failed to raise the necessary funds but for 07ie mati vjIw had 

 been taught, whe7i a little boy in New Hampshire. kind7iess to animals. In 

 the great stock yards of Chicago alone 7niirions of du7nb animals are now 

 properly fed aiid watered, a7id largely protected from cruelty every year, 

 because that little boy was taught kindness to ani7nals. 



Fathers may be cruel, mothers may be cruel, brothers and sisters may 

 be cruel. It may be impossible in many instances to teach kindness 

 through the7n. But even in the homes of crime, hearts may be made more 

 tender by kind acts and words for the dumb creatures that always retur7i 

 love for love, Geo. T. Angell. 



