THE TRAFFIC IN OLD HORSES.
[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."]
Sia,—The result of the 1914 campaign for stopping this traffic was a " stiffening up" of the inspection by which we were assured only horses fit for work would be passed. This a too trustful public understood to mean that horses for work only would be exported. But our old horses continue to be sent in thousands to France and Belgium for slaughter, and it cannot be too much emphasized that so long as we send our worn-out servants for butchery on the Continent, so long will they be subjected to cruelty, over which we have no control, and to a torturing death, and, in addition, to cruel faking by horse copers to enable them to pass veterinary inspection, to which horrible practices public attention is being most usefully directed by the Press. In view of the high prices obtained abroad, the proposed £20 tax on each horse is the most practical means of securing the ending of the hideous trade, and all voters should press this solution on their M.P.s.—I am, Sir, ttc., T. E. BRUCE. The Red House, Beaininster, TI'. Dorset.
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