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( TV « r• The Murder of a Horse■ They only murdered a horse1 (i To some people the story from Brigham City telling of this ’,' prime by three young Utahns means little. It carries no shock of horror. It doesn't make somo people shudder at the wanton cruelty of the thing; the beastiality, the depravity and cowardice of the act. *Yet that horse had worked faithfully for the livery stable owner; it had been the means whereby he had secured food and s clothing for his little ones. That horse had willingly gone forth to labor for man, and its reward was vicious punishment and■ death.Any man who will deliberately kill a dumb thing so loyal and faithful as a horse or a dog would just as quickly slay a fellow human, if his coward heart did not mke him shrink from the penalty that would follow. It is not because his heart is right *■ that he doesn't kill his fellow man; it is because he is afraid.Think it over and decide for yourself the difference between the moral degree of a crime whereby a man coolly, maliciously, deliberately beats and lashes a horse and forces it to run until it falls dead, having no possible motive for hatred toward the animal, and a erime wherein he is angered, thinks he has been ‘ wronged and in the heat of passion and with his Mason unbal-:N anced slays a fellow human.Some people—very many, in fact—are perfectly satisfied if -•they themselves are comfortable. Their interest extends to ho ‘ other creature. If a neighbor treats an innocent little child brutally, they dismiss the subject with the thought; “Well, it's his child, not mine. If a person with a deformed mind (and one must have a deformed and depraved mind to mistreat dumb animals) beats his har'd working horse with a log chain, because r poor animal has reached the limit of its strength; the coldblooded person turns aside his head and refuses to take any ; interest in the affair. As long as his own hide is untouched, he• has no pity for a less fortunate creature,; 'Some persons are so selfish and so narrow minded that theythink because God made them to walk on two legs and blessed them with a few more privileges than he gave to other animals, t the other creatures have no rights whatever,• Russel Nelson, his brother Marlnus, and Christian Westgard• uf Brigham City rented a team from the Glover livery stable Sun-: j,v morning. They took three girls riding, and it is declared that ' -hey drove that team almost one hundred miles. When they returned to the livery stable one of the horses dropped dead. TheT; evidences of brutal treatment were so plain the stable manager ^ whipped one of the Nelson boys.T That’s probably all the punishment the boys will receive,t tv will not be disgraced by their crime; their sin will be for-r (rotten; they will simply be coarsened that much more by the f cruelty of the thing and the lack of penitence.They only murdered a horse 1_
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Salt Lake City Salt Lake Telegram
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Tue, Jun 30, 1914
Page 9
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