Life — June 22, 1905 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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THE HONEYMOON More About John P. Haines. AD Mr. John Mason Knox, Secretary of the S.P.C.A., a sense of humor he never could , _ have written the de- te fense of its presi- #7 dent, Mr. John P. > Haines, that is now =~ in circulation. Or is Mr. Knox sarcastic? He says, The President of this Society should be what its illustrious and honored founder was: a man of enthusiasm; of warm and sympathetic nature ; active, zealous, untiring in the ministrations of mercy. For these has Mr. Haines been noted throughout his fifteen years of service. It happens to be common knowledge that during the last fifteen years of offensive mismanagement of the New York S. P. C. A., Mr. Haines has built for himself a solid and enduring repu- tation for arrogance, selfishness and comprehensive inefficiency. As for lovers of animals, their detestation and contempt is continually finding open expression in the public journals. For his faithful and fearless discharge of the duties of his office, and for the unselfishness with which, declining a salary, he has given the prime of his life and its best years to a high and noble cause, etc Declining a salary ! Tell us more about that. Publish, for variety’s sake, a detailed, business- like statement of the finances of the Society. Those of us who contribute would like to know how the one hundred. and thirty thousand dollars a year is distributed. ‘This body has a right to say, and to expect the public to believe, that the funds committed to its care for the protection of animals will continue to be as prudently administered in the future as in the past. An impertinence, brazen and foolish. 1 ‘The public does xof believe the fun are ** prudently administered.” Thi body” knows the public cions, yet no new light isever shed upon these mystic finane For unintentional sarcasm, however, we commend the following : & & susy No man ever entered with more zeal of with more loyal fidelity’ upon a work originated by another man than Mr. Haines did in taking up the work of Mr, Bergh; and for fifteen years he has carried that work on with a success at which Mr. Bergh himself, if he could see it, would wonder and Fejoice. He might wonder, but there would be no rejoicing. He might wonder how the money was spent, and at Mr, Haines’s callous indifference to suffer- ing animals and to public indignation. He might, of course, rejoice that lovers of dumb animals had at last risen up in anger and were demanding an ac- counting. Mr. Knox tells us in this incredibly mendacious and saccharine pamphlet that Mr. Haines has raised an income, exclusive of bequests, of less than twenty-seven thousand dollars in 1888 to more than one hundred and eight thousand dollars, likewise exclusive of bequests, in 1903; and, under his administration, the value of the assets of the Society has been increased by more than one hun- dred and fifty per cent Why, then, in all this prosperity, does the Society employ but twenty-two agents with power to make arrests? Where goes the balance of the income of ‘more than one hundred and eight thousand dollars '"? For necessary expenses in crushing out other societies? For printing un- convincing pamphlets in defense of its president? For the maintenance of that one hundred-and-fifty-thousand- dollar establishment, that the cherished Haines may be installed according to his merits? Impunity. OU may break all commandments in the code, Provided that you do it 4 /a mode. comicbooks.com