TAKE IT TO YOURSELF by Emma Rood Tuttle

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 26, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 21.

TAKE IT TO YOURSELF.

By Emma Rood Tuttle

[From an address.]

No one would think of beating or whipping an overloaded man if he should fall beneath his burden; but we often see horses beaten when they fall in the harness or strain to pull an overloaded wagon. No one would strike a man because he could not stand upon an icy road; but the smooth-shod or barefoot horse which slips or fails to pull his load on the icy street is often cut with the driver's whip. If you want a man not to stumble you would never dream you could prevent it by “checking him up” so he could see nothing but the sky above him.

If a man has severe labor to perform, we know he must have ample food, plenty of drink, sleep, and shelter. But how often are all such needs disregarded when animals labor! People too often forget that the needs of man and beast are the same in all the essentials for health and comfort.

The labor of animals has always been claimed without dispute; but now another claim is made upon them, which it chills my blood to talk about; but I put my sensitiveness under my feet and regretfully trample upon yours, because it is necessary that you know some very horrible things, that you may aid in repressing them.

The demand made upon animals is this: they are seized—and even raised, perhaps, by thousands—for vivisection. Our American colleges are practising it, and even our public schools have attempted it in many places.—Emma Rood Tuttle.