THE HINDOO AND THE PIG.
• Tho London Olobo says : — lt ia gratifying to sco tbnt llio oducftt.oil Hindoo is awakening to tbo fact that cruelty lo animula does not consort with tho precepts of his fuitli. Tho old Hindoo novcr rcquirod to liavohia memory joggb'd m that reaped ; ho had his fauita, but ho was. moat morciful, ut nil events, to I. ho dumb creation. Horror would lmvo filled his soul lind ho beheld tho eights, now of tho commonest occurrence, nt tho Prcuidoncy capitals, and whercvor plso the nuliros lmvo bcooino moro or Icsa Kurojioaniscd. Tlicro aro far moro prosecutions and convictions for cruelty tv animals at Oulcuttu limn m London j and gouurnlly tlio ciibcs aro of ii purlicularly rovoli ing sort. Wn gladly welcmno it, tlioreforo, na v sign of betlor things to como, that tho corrrspondonao columna of tiio nativo papers at last cor.tain irmny indignant romonßtranco9 From tbf younger generation of Hindoos. But it ,11 curious, to say tho lonst of it, thnt their fity is almoßt eicliißivoly oxcitod bj Mia Biifforirga of llio pig. bettor aftor letter portrayj his woca /■« rontr lo market. Tlis agoivsing ftjucals aio dwolt upon junt au if if were not m his nnliira lo squeal on tho sliglitcst piovocnlion, nnd ono writer oven dilnton upon tho wicl.nctncsa or sopafatihg pigs from their fumilion for iho Brntiflcation of human appetites. Hut, not a oyllnblo m pnid abou'. tho fooliii/;n of fowls wlirn loing conro}ort by railway to Calcutta 'J'l:oy nro urclean i)irdn (o tlio Hindoo, mid pcrhnpo ha nm.y eoniiidor Ihul, llio cruahini: they ntiderßO ia a flttini! pimiuliuimil for their original tin. JJIIL tho piy, Ih-iiik nbliorrcd by his MnJiormriodun relinw-nli-zons, natuniily appoalH to his synipnthicp. For aro they not on Iho same eido m anl.ir;oriism to Isl.un and nil its Icnotn V it would not do, of CDUi»o, for Iho educated Hindoo to own lo t!ii» alliance, and lin (Inrcloro <lis(Jiiisi'o it urirltT tlio flowing niimtlo of hiiniiiiitly.
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Timaru Herald, Volume L, Issue 4798, 21 March 1890, Page 3
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330THE HINDOO AND THE PIG. Timaru Herald, Volume L, Issue 4798, 21 March 1890, Page 3
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