165 A STEP BACKWARD. 
from the corporation lobby would be of service to the one 
class of members who could see nothing good in a mea- 
sure that did not give him substantial return or which he 
could see no benefit to ‘‘constituents of my district.” 
Corporate co-operation was necessary when the move 
of the well disposed towards encouraging and_ sustain- 
ing efforts toward permanently establishing a Humane 
Society head for the State of North Dakota. By their 
lack of sympathy, even were self interest lacking to 
these representatives of corporate control, an injury 
was done to-the good name of the State in the with- 
_ drawal of its patronage and sympathetic aid toward the 
enforcement of just laws in which the humane instincts 
of the best of all mankind saction and commend— 
instead of encouragement as the people in this enlight- 
ened age would have expected. Humane Societies 
meet with encouragement and are fostered in every well 
goverened State in the American Union, and the re- 
peal of this legislation was wrong. Through the efforts 
of the wife of Judge Bartholemew, of the State Su- 
preme Court, the bill was made a law, and rigidly en- 
forced during that lady’s lifetime. Her successor, Mrs; 
Holly, while fully as competent as the first named lady 
did not have her fearless energy, so the arrest of per- 
sons, charged with cruelty to animals was less frequent. 
The abolition of this office by legislative enactment 
in North Dakota, was a step backward. For here, 
more than any Northwestern State, where conditions are 
so chaotic from the immense immigration and its diver- 
sity as to their race and national characteristics and 
their previous manner of life: the moral force of this 
a was it stood upon the statutes had a deterrent effect 
upon the careless and cruel, upon whom severedés: 
