Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1914 — Pity the Poor Rats. [ARTICLE]

Pity the Poor Rats.

Surgeon General Blue has ordered a corps of 12 rat catchers to start from Ban Francisco for New Orleans. These experts will carry on a campaign of rat extermination to stamp out the contagion. In six months, at a coat of SIOO,OOO, the danger of the bubonic plague will be removed. But at the cost of ihe lives of mu'! lions of ratsL Is not that enough to stir the wrath of ail the mushy-hearted people? If it is a crime to use guinea pigs to save human life, how much more wanton is it to slay helpless, defenseless rats on the suspicion that they may be carrying the fleas that propagate a plague! Here is work for the anti-vivisectionists! Save the rats! Let mere men and women die!—Puck.