1. (Annual meeting at St. James's Hall, May 1901): "How have
Lord Lister, the vivisector, and his Committee distributed the
Prince of Wales's Hospital Fund? They have so distributed this
fund as to make it clear to hospital managers that the more they
connect their hospitals with the torture of animals the larger
will be the grant they may expect to get from the Prince of
Wales's Fund. That fund, therefore, has been used as an
insidious but powerful incentive to vivisection."
2. (Annual meeting at St. James's Hall, 1902): "Sheltering
itself now in its most repulsive form behind those ancient and
glorious institutions, founded and sustained for their
Christ-like work of healing the sick, sapping their foundations
and smirching their fair fame, malignant cruelty has taken up
its position in its last ditch. There it has summoned to its aid
vast interests, ancient prejudices, enormous endowments, and
under illustrious patronage it has pilfered the funds subscribed
for the poor."
With these statements before us (and it would be easy to add to them)
we cannot doubt that the plan of campaign against all experiments on
animals is also hostile to the Hospitals, whenever that hostility
seems likely to be of the very least use to the cause.
* * * * *
Surely there are charities more worthy of subscriptions, donations,
and legacies than these Anti-vivisection Societies. They quarrel among
themselves; they spend vast sums of money on offices, salaries,
press-cuttings, reprints, lectures and meetings, tons of pamphlets and
leaflets. Their members denounce all experiments done now, while they
enjoy the profit of all experiments done before now; they say that the
object of the physiologist is to torture his victim out of devilish
malice prepense; they accuse doctors of fraud, and lying, and refined
cruelty, and madness, and winking at sin; they blacklist and boycott
the best Hospitals. And the whole costly business, these thirty years,
has done nothing to stop these experiments; they have increased
rapidly. Surely, if a man wishes to help and comfort animals, he had
better give his money to the Home for Lost Dogs, or the Home of Rest
for Horses.
II. LITERATURE.
We have now to examine the style of the literature of these societies.
But, out of such a vast store of journals, pamphlets, and leaflets, we
can only take one here or there.
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