2 JUNE 1928, Page 17

THE R.S.P.C.A.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As I know many who are admirers of your paper chiefly because of your consistent championship of the animal's cause, I deeply regret to note your desire for a tolerant attitude to " sportsmen " in your leading article on the R.S.P.C.A. case. I am confident it is not a theory but a fact that instead of weakening the Society, the ruling out of all blood sports lovers would be its strength.

There are many who will not support the Society because of such tolerance, and that is why societies such aithe Council of Justice, League for Prohibition of Cruel Sports, &c., have arisen, all of whose subscriptions and donations are lost to the parent society.

The legacies of many are left to the society with the faith that they are being given to the animal's cause, and how that faith is misplaced I Would the ability to have accepted the handsome Grove-Grady bequest have " weakened " their cause ?

If instead of our aristocrats breeding foxes and pheasants for mutilation and murder, our slum-dwellers were to breed cats for the pleasure of watching them drown, would there be any divided public opinion about that ?

Let us have those sanctuaries soon, and the superfluous wild life exterminated humanely by trustworthy officials.—

I am, Sir, &c., MAY ROWLAND. League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports. 95 Wacerlree Road, S.W . 2.