8. The Home Secretary stated in Parliament on 10th July 1903, that one dog may be used _again_ and _again_ for vivisectional experiment or demonstration--and this without anæsthetics. Think of the condition of the poor dog between each living-dissection. Has not the time come for the nation to rise as one man and say-- "This shall not be"? It is no wonder that even the National Anti-vivisection Society, in a letter to the _Times_, December 11th, 1903, denounced this leaflet. The wonder is, that Mr. Pirkis, R.N., the chairman of the Canine League, tried to defend it. _This deplorable leaflet_, said the National Society: _It contains a series of grossly false and misleading statements._ Let us take it paragraph by paragraph. The first two paragraphs are grossly false. The third suppresses the truth. The fourth is grossly false; the Home Secretary said that neither the starving of animals to death nor the forced over-feeding of animals was included among the experiments _authorised or performed_. Paragraph five is grossly false. So is paragraph six: not one word was said about any experiments, either by the Home Secretary or by anybody else. The entire number of all dogs and cats together, under Certificates A, B, E, and EE, throughout the whole kingdom, that year, was 344. Paragraph eight is grossly false. * * * * * For want of space, it is impossible to consider all the special arguments of the anti-vivisection societies. Of course, among these special arguments, there are a few which have something in them. How could they all of them be utterly false? They go back over thirty years; they are drawn from all parts of the world. This incessant rummaging of medical books and journals, British and foreign; and all this everlasting espionage; the whole elaborate system of a sort of secret service--these methods, year in year out, are bound to find, now and again, a fault somewhere. But I do say, having read and re-read a vast quantity of the publications of these societies, that they are, taken as a whole, a standing disgrace to the cause; that they are tainted through and through with brutal language, imbecile jokes, and innumerable falsehoods; that they have neither the honesty, nor the common decency, which should justify them. Still, here it is that the money goes. There is _money in the business_; there is _milk in the cocoa-nut_; and _twopence more, and up goes the donkey_. These are the phrases used, by the National Anti-vivisection Society, of the bacteriologists, and the men who are working at cancer. But these societies, that spend thousands every year, what have they got to show for it all? They have, with much else of the same kind, the _Zoophilist_. Truly, a fine result; a high-class official journal, the _recognised organ of the anti-vivisection movement in England_.