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without coming in contact with it. I have heard lots 

 of men lecture on this subject, and talk about the 

 effect of rum on the human family, and I have seen 

 the effect punished while the cause remained undis- 

 turbed. In all of these lectures I ever heard or read 

 I never heard one word sriid in defense of the long- 

 suffering and abused horse ; and as I am come to their 

 j-escue, I shall work all the field I can to accomplish it. 

 This lecture on rum is to show that it affects the 

 horse in many ways, and badly, too, all over the United 

 States, and I have been over some of it. It is the 

 same in all placea, some worse than others. I will 

 give you a little sketch of thi^wholesale abuse caused 

 by rum in this God-serving town where I am battling 

 for the horse. These are facts. They are no third 

 hand business. It was a common thing on Sunday for 

 me to see three and four wagons pass my house at one 

 time, going from Horseheads to Elmira, four in the 

 wagon, one horse drawing the load, and he stiff and so 

 sore on his feet — caused by ironing his feet by such as 

 are whipping and pounding him — that he could hardly 

 keep on his balance; all swinging their hats over their 

 heads ; one plying the whip, sometimes a club; cross- 

 ing and rocrossing this street-car track every ten or 

 fifteen rods Some of these beings called human were 

 so badly off their base they could not sit up straight 

 if they tried. They would balance over in all shapes, 

 some forward, some backward. Some would hang 

 over sideways, and they were constantly changing, all 

 the time yelling and whooping ; horses going as fast as 

 they could be made to go in their deformed con- 

 dition. This could be seen, passing and repassing all 



