PROTECT THE BOYS by John Pierce St. John

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 22, 1881

PROTECT THE BOYS.

By John Pierce St. John

You cannot, under our laws, cruelly kick your own dog; because we have a statute prohibiting cruelty to animals. You cannot get a license to kick dogs; it makes no difference how great a petition you present; it makes no difference how much money you may offer, you cannot get a license for any such purpose. Just a little further over in this statute book it tells you that at all seasons of the year you are prohibited from killing turkey buzzards. Is it not high time we were giving as great protection to the boys of Kansas as we give to the dogs and turkey buzzards of the State? We protect the buzzards—we protect the dogs—but we have been licensing the destruction of the boys. In this triangular fight between the buzzard, the dog, and the boy, I am for the boy all the time.—Governor St. John.