DOGS AND HUMAN BEINGS!
Lorillard, the New York tobacco man, had a poodle dog stolen, and has
offered a reward of five hundred dollars for the arrest of the thief, and
he informs a reporter that he will spend $10,000, if necessary, for the
capture and conviction of the thief. [Applause.]
The applause marked in there will be from human skye terriers, who have
forgotten that only a few weeks ago several hundred girls, who had been
working in Lorillard's factory, went on a strike because as they allege,
they were treated like dogs. We doubt if they were treated as well as this
poodle was treated. We doubt, in case one of these poor, virtuous girls
was kidnapped, if the great Lorillard would have offered as big a reward
for the conviction of the human thief, as he has for the conviction of the
person who has eloped with his poodle.
We hope that the aristocracy of this country will never get to valuing a
dog higher than it does a human being. When it gets so that a rich person
would not permit a poodle to do the work in a tobacco factory that a poor
girl does to support a sick mother, hell had better be opened for summer
boarders. When girls work ten hours a day stripping nasty tobacco, and
find at the end of the week that the fines for speaking are larger than
the wages, and the fines go for the conviction of thieves who steal the
girl's master's dog, no one need come around here lecturing at a dollar a
head and telling us there is no hell.
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