Sunday, December 08, 2024

 

WHY COW LAW SHOULD NOT BE PASSED.

 1. For one luckless bovine that steals a cabbage or an apple from a careless grocer, or opens the latchless gate of some improvident citizen, there are hundreds of respectable cows that quietly browse on our back streets without molesting anyone. 

2. A sow that behaves badly can be abated like any other nuisance. When there is such a plain resort, would it be wise to punish the innocent in order to suppress the guilty? This anti-republican. 

3. Th complaint against marauding; stock comes from those who have no interest in them. The welfare of a whole city is not to be sacrificed for a cabbage. If the drivers of country wagons go off and leave their teams and wagons exposed - contrary to an express law of the city- can they justly invoke the creation of another law to protect them in their lawlessness ; or if a grocer persist in blocking the sidewalk with crates of cabbages where loud scent attracts a foraging animal, is it not just one of the risks which he takes in putting it there?

 4. The back streets covered with Bermuda grass is the only valuable freehold of the city.This is open to any family that keeps a cow. To cut off this freehold which has existed from time immemorial would be equivalent to levying a heavy tax upon a portion of our citizens least able to bear it. Many a poor widow, struggling to support a family of fatherless children, finds in this her greatest source of support. 

5. Hundreds of dollars annually were lost to the city by the passage of the hog law. There are heaps of garbage in our back streets which those scavengers removed, and which the town cart do not reach. The children yet pine for these delightful spare-rib and tenderloin which their mother prepared, and now it is proposed to take the milk away from the babes and sucklings. The law means less of milk to the poor, and to the rich it means that diseased milk which comes from confining stock in pens and feeding them on artificial food. 

6. Apart from any sanitary or local consideration, however, it is impolitic and unstatesmanlike to destroy values, in town without pay-rolls, without industries and struggling for bare existence, it is not best to sacrifice too much to style.

We have had too much of that.

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