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Jun 12, 1896 Chicago Editorial The Dog Question Again - Pit Bull Problem
The melancholy days have come in which all the dogs of Chicago that walk or un abroad must be muzzled or be shot. We have little doubt that many of them would prefer to be shot; especially the puppies. While the "dog star rages," which we suppose to be concurrently with the muzzling season, the subcommittee that has charge of the work of preparing a new ordinance relative to the keeping of dogs can meditate at leaisure; there is no urgent demand for its report.'
We are of opinion that all that is needed for the safety of society is a stringent law against keeping of harboring savage dogs. There is no need of such in a city. A good house dog is not necessarily a savage beast. It is the dog that barks and arouses a household that the burglar fears. A good toy terrier may be a better defense against house-breakers tha(n) an ugly and vicious bulldog. There are breeds of dogs - Dalmatians, setters, pointers, Danes, mastiffs, and large Irish and Yorkshire terriers that are courageous as well as affectionate, though the terrier is apt to be irritable. Legislate for dogs as men are legislated for; encourage the good and suppress the vile, and all will go well.
Daily Inter Ocean, Chicago IL
Jun 06, 1896 Chicago Editorial The Murderous Bulldog
Within the past two weeks three causes, additional to the multitude theretofore existing, have been assigned in favor of the passage of an act prohibitory of the keeping of bulldogs in any populous district.
In Chicago an engaging child of some three summers was mangled by one of these brutes. She was walking on the street, the animal was led on a leash by a young man, but in the unprovoked ferocity that is characteristic of its race it sprang forward and seized and mangled the infant. Had the attack been made in a solitary neighborhood it is probably that the girl would have been killed, as the boy whose fate we presenty shall narrate was killed. The child was saved from more serious injury by the aid of passers by.
A day or two ago, and in the civilization of Chicago, a fellow infinitely more brutal than the low-grade beasts that he owned, first knocked his wife down, and then set his two bulldogs on her. The poor woman was nearly worried to death before strangers arrived and rescued her from the jaws of the brutes. It is just such fellows as this wife-beater that delight in the company of bulldogs. We do not mean to say that every one who keeps a bulldog is himself a brute; but, as Horace Greeley said, while all Democrats of his day were not horse-thieves, all the horse-thieves were Democrats, so we may say that while not every keeper of a bulldog is brutal, every brutal man delights in the cruel ferocity of bulldogs.
In Racine a 7-year-old boy, returning peacefully from school, was attacked and killed by two bulldogs. When the corpse was found, some hours after the murder, both ears were torn off, one arm devoured, the scalp frightfully lacerated, and an eye scratched out. The bulldogs were tracked to a neighboring barn and found licking their bloody jaws.
There is no rational excuse for the maintenance of such canine monstrosities in any populous district. They are as dangerous as dynamite or smallpox or any other of the minatory things that the police power of municipalities is evoked to repress and eliminate. An ordinance prohibitive of such animals within the city limits is well worthy of the consideration of the council
Daily Inter Ocean, Chicago IL
Read about the awful death of Harry Acklam in Racine Wisconsin that is referred to in this editorial on dogsbite.org:
The story of Harry Acklam, Murdered by Two Pit Bulls in 1896
In Chicago an engaging child of some three summers was mangled by one of these brutes. She was walking on the street, the animal was led on a leash by a young man, but in the unprovoked ferocity that is characteristic of its race it sprang forward and seized and mangled the infant. Had the attack been made in a solitary neighborhood it is probably that the girl would have been killed, as the boy whose fate we presenty shall narrate was killed. The child was saved from more serious injury by the aid of passers by.
A day or two ago, and in the civilization of Chicago, a fellow infinitely more brutal than the low-grade beasts that he owned, first knocked his wife down, and then set his two bulldogs on her. The poor woman was nearly worried to death before strangers arrived and rescued her from the jaws of the brutes. It is just such fellows as this wife-beater that delight in the company of bulldogs. We do not mean to say that every one who keeps a bulldog is himself a brute; but, as Horace Greeley said, while all Democrats of his day were not horse-thieves, all the horse-thieves were Democrats, so we may say that while not every keeper of a bulldog is brutal, every brutal man delights in the cruel ferocity of bulldogs.
In Racine a 7-year-old boy, returning peacefully from school, was attacked and killed by two bulldogs. When the corpse was found, some hours after the murder, both ears were torn off, one arm devoured, the scalp frightfully lacerated, and an eye scratched out. The bulldogs were tracked to a neighboring barn and found licking their bloody jaws.
There is no rational excuse for the maintenance of such canine monstrosities in any populous district. They are as dangerous as dynamite or smallpox or any other of the minatory things that the police power of municipalities is evoked to repress and eliminate. An ordinance prohibitive of such animals within the city limits is well worthy of the consideration of the council
Daily Inter Ocean, Chicago IL
Read about the awful death of Harry Acklam in Racine Wisconsin that is referred to in this editorial on dogsbite.org:
The story of Harry Acklam, Murdered by Two Pit Bulls in 1896
Jun 05, 1896 Chicago Man Set His Bulldogs Upon His Wife
Brutal Act of a Man Named Kelly at Chicago
Chicago - Mr. and Mrs. Kelly who live at 17 East Twentieth street, had a quarrel Wednesday night in a barn owned by Kelly in the rear of 42 Twenty-second street. From words Mr. Kelly drifted to blows. After he had knocked his wife down he turned loose two large and vicious bulldogs and set them on the prostrate woman. They attacked her and bit her face in a horrible manner. Her screams attracted the attention of passersby, who at first were deterred from interfering by the furious brutes.
Seeing, however, that delay might mean death, two men seized pitchforks and clubs and drove them away. The police were notified, but before they arrived Kelly had made his escape. The woman was taken to a drug store, where a doctor dressed her wounds, after which she was taken home. The doctor says her face will be disfigured for life and she may lose the sight of one eye.
Quincy Morning Whig, Quincy, IL, June 05, 1896, p. 5
Chicago - Mr. and Mrs. Kelly who live at 17 East Twentieth street, had a quarrel Wednesday night in a barn owned by Kelly in the rear of 42 Twenty-second street. From words Mr. Kelly drifted to blows. After he had knocked his wife down he turned loose two large and vicious bulldogs and set them on the prostrate woman. They attacked her and bit her face in a horrible manner. Her screams attracted the attention of passersby, who at first were deterred from interfering by the furious brutes.
Seeing, however, that delay might mean death, two men seized pitchforks and clubs and drove them away. The police were notified, but before they arrived Kelly had made his escape. The woman was taken to a drug store, where a doctor dressed her wounds, after which she was taken home. The doctor says her face will be disfigured for life and she may lose the sight of one eye.
Quincy Morning Whig, Quincy, IL, June 05, 1896, p. 5
May 24, Chicago 1896 Restriction of Savage Dogs
Chicago - Tomorrow night an ordinance is to be introduced to the council by the provisions of which no dog, young or old, large or small, gentle or fierce, is to be permitted to run at large without a muzzle at any season of the year. The immediate cause of the introduction of the ordinance is understood to be the mangling of a child by a vicious bulldog.
We are not sure that the remedy may not be worse than the original evil. A muzzled dog is a dog in torment, and protracted torment produces madness in man or brute.
Yet we are quite sure that additional precautions ought to be taken against the assaults of savage dogs. A dog that is known to be savage has no proper place in city life. We can see no cause for the maintenance of a bulldog in a great city. The race is fierce and treacherous. The mastiff, the Dalmatian hound (often called the coach dog), the Great Dane, and the setter generally are highly intelligent, and always are highly courageous. The terrier is apt to be "snappy" if provoked, even when the provocation is playful. The "spitz" happily has fallen into disrepute-he is of the distinctly dangerous class; he is not highly courageous but he is highly vicious. The dachshund is as plucky, honest, gentle, and wise as he is homely. The pug is a fad; he is good for nothing and bad for nothing. Dogs are like men; a few of them abominable, a few of them are admirable, most of them are to be tolerated rather than accepted as intimates.
The dog problem is the man problem, with considerable modification. How to encourage that which is good--and that there is good in dogs is proven by the affection that great men have cherished toward them, and they toward men, from the time of the Homeric Ulysses of Ithaca to the time of the American Ulysses of Appomattox--and how to destroy that which is evil is the question to be solved.
The bulldog ought to be eliminated from city life, and so ought all dogs, mongrel or otherwise, of savage temper.
Daily Inter Ocean, May 24, 1896; vol xxv; Issue: 61; section: part four page 32
Yet we are quite sure that additional precautions ought to be taken against the assaults of savage dogs. A dog that is known to be savage has no proper place in city life. We can see no cause for the maintenance of a bulldog in a great city. The race is fierce and treacherous. The mastiff, the Dalmatian hound (often called the coach dog), the Great Dane, and the setter generally are highly intelligent, and always are highly courageous. The terrier is apt to be "snappy" if provoked, even when the provocation is playful. The "spitz" happily has fallen into disrepute-he is of the distinctly dangerous class; he is not highly courageous but he is highly vicious. The dachshund is as plucky, honest, gentle, and wise as he is homely. The pug is a fad; he is good for nothing and bad for nothing. Dogs are like men; a few of them abominable, a few of them are admirable, most of them are to be tolerated rather than accepted as intimates.
The dog problem is the man problem, with considerable modification. How to encourage that which is good--and that there is good in dogs is proven by the affection that great men have cherished toward them, and they toward men, from the time of the Homeric Ulysses of Ithaca to the time of the American Ulysses of Appomattox--and how to destroy that which is evil is the question to be solved.
The bulldog ought to be eliminated from city life, and so ought all dogs, mongrel or otherwise, of savage temper.
Daily Inter Ocean, May 24, 1896; vol xxv; Issue: 61; section: part four page 32
May 12, 1896 Chicago Girl bitten by a Bulldog
Chicago - Virginia Hurley, two and a half years old, was attacked by a vicious bulldog in front of No. 95 Pine St, her home, yesterday afternoon, and was seriously bitten bout the right cheek. The animal is the property of Fred Court of No. 210 LaSalle avenue, whose sister is matron at the Sheffield avenue police station. He, accompanied by a friend, was walking along Pine street with his bulldog. The Hurley child was playing on the sidewalk when the animal made a lunge and snapped her cheek. The child's cries attracted Court, and he beat the animal off. It was found, however, that the little girl's face was severely torn and a physician said her wounds might prove very serious. The dog was ordered shot.
Daily Inter Ocean, Chicago IL
Daily Inter Ocean, Chicago IL
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