Extract from Address of Mr. Angell before 

 the " International Congress of Educators," 

 at New Orleans, Louisiana, Feb. 26, 1 885. 



"The wonderful growth of societies for the prevention 

 of cruelty to animals is a subject with which probably some 

 of you are familiar ; how they have stretched out their pro- 

 tecting arms, not only in this country, but in Europe, Asia, 

 Africa, and many islands of various oceans, numbering 

 among their members many of the noblest, best, and most 

 illustrious of the world's citizens. In England the Royal 

 Society is under the patronage of the Queen, and its Presi- 

 dent a member of the Queen's Privy Council. 



" The first audience I had the pleasure of addressing 

 there some years ago was presided over by one of the 

 most learned men in England, the Lord Bishop of Glouces- 

 ter and Bristol, and the gentleman who moved the vote of 

 thanks was Field Marshal Sir John Burgoyne, very near 

 the head of the British army; the second was at the house 

 of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts — probably, next to the 

 Queen, the most highly respected woman in England. 



" In France, Germany, and elsewhere, wherever I have 

 traveled in Europe, I have found the same. One German 

 society numbers among its members twenty-three generals 

 and over two hundred officers of the German army. 



"In my own State of Massachusetts, I think that no 

 charitable society of the State has on its roll of officers and 

 members more distinguished and influential names than 

 Ae Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cnte/fy 

 to Animals. I think that no society in the State is better 

 known, or more popular. 



" But, in the limited period allotted me, one thing I do 

 have time to tell you; and that is, that we long ago found 

 that the great remedy for all these wrongs lies, not in laws 

 and prosecuting officers, but ^ in the public and private - 

 schools ; that a thousand cases of cruelty can be prevented 

 by kind words and humane educ^jtioJi, for every one that 

 can be prevented by prosecution.^^ 



