June 24, If we appear to certain of our readers conspicuously to single Jout for comment movements having their inception in the United States, it is only beau: [that in that land which has contributed so much to human welfare and the sum of human knowledge, it is inevitable that there shall be heard from time, time expressions of opinion clearly indicating that the old-time barriers of prejudice a even ignorance till oppo themselves to progress. The very latest manifestation of this is to be found in the reported proceedings of the annual International Conference of Socie or the Investigation of Vivisection, Two hundred women and two dozen men representing humane and anti-vivisection s0- Jcieties and kennel clubs attended luncheon at the Biltmore Hotel in New York and sat for four while speakers expounded love for dumb animals" and described "the terrible tortures 8 animals" che important men at the head of the medical pro who were described as lof cruelty" and "medical experiments were not confined to animals; that they Jwere being made on human beings and that even children were fin danger."
Let us at the outset observe that there is no right-thinking man, be he medico or layman, but who is, and long has been, irrevocably opposed to useless experimentation upon cats and dogs. Indeed, plentiful evidlence can be adduced to prove conclusively that this is a prac tice happily long past. Our publicity-seeking—_sentimentalts, who are frank in their avowals that facts are nothing their young' lives, simply will Met have it so. 'To acknowledge this, would be to deprive themselves of any raison d'étre. 'That their efforts, albeit unintelligently directed,' have accomplished much goodwin the past, is not in dispute. It is apparent, however, that all this is to be' offset by a confession of colossal ignor-lance. It is actually proposed to Jeampaign for a law prohibiting the preparation of vaccines and serums! As. to the subjection lof "dumb animals" to torture in the interests of science, we had thought that long ere this. the most casual reader of newspapers and periodicals had been aware that rats and mice, guineapigs and rabbits consti-{tute the experimental material, True, the horse and the cow are indispensable to the production of certain sera; but to assume that they are ruthlessly wracked and slain in the preparation lof these, is to confess to fantasy tical misconception. One is quite justified in asking how. long "the important men in the
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