For our part we have very good reason for believing
in the entire good faith of Miss Cole, an old correspondent of the Spectator, who made the arrangements for the film. She is not a woman who lends herself to senti- mental exaggeration. But after all, the present concerns us much more than the past. We can believe that in many foreign abattoirs the inhumanity is no worse than here. The real objective should be to save the horses the cruelties of the last sad journey. The whole traffic should be stopped. The horses should be killed before exportation. It is so important, however, that the R.S.P.C.A. should be above all suspicion that we hope there will be the full inquiry which has been demanded. No one is likely to suffer more than the Society itself when there is a breath of suspicion that its statements on behalf of the animal world cannot be accepted as literally true.
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