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ANIMALS IN MINES.

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ANIMALS IN MINES. GENTLEMEN, Many are the barbarities perpetrated in trade, and encouraged-often unknowingly- by kindly people, but it is hard to conceive anything more distressing than .the fate of that. poor, hopeless, slave of modern civilisation, the pit pony, the condition and treatment of which is a crying shame to this great nation. A mass of evidence has been published which proves that there can be absolutely no question as to the horrible and revolting cruelty which pre- vails among many of the men and boys employed in our coal mines. While it is quite true that the conditions under which the human workers are employed are far from what they might be, and, in some cases I believe, are very bad, those of the hapless ponies are many times worse. At the mercy of rough men and boys, whose own hard lives made them for the most part callous and unsympathetic, especially where sub-human life is concerned, numberless unoffending animals in our mines are annually subjected to treat- ment which would send the offenders to prison without the option of a fine if committed above ground. Besides being forced to pass their lives in unnatural surroundings, covered with sores and bruises, hardly ever seeing the light of day, tasting a blade of fresh grass, or breathing a whiff of pare air, they are kicked and cuffed, beaten with thick staves or pick shafts, and deprived of food and water for long periods— sometimes for 24 hours at a stretch. But this is not all. Barbarities even woise than thesa are nlJt unknown. Such is the exceeding brutality in some mines-I do not say all-that animals have had their sight deliberately des- troyed, or had their tongues torn out by the roots; sometimes they have been fatally woun- ded, or killed outright by a savage blow. All this may be safely and emphatically stated. We all note with satisfaction that some progress has been made with regard to worn-out horses, and there is every prospect that some rational measure of reform will be accomplished which will effectually check the abominable cruelty which the traffic entails. May we hope that the case of the pit pony, whose plight is equally pitiable, and calls aloud for redress, will likewise be taken in hand at an early date ? I am, &c., JOSEPH COLLINSON. Animals' Friend' Office, Portugal St., London, W.C., July 4th, 1910.

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