THE FUR CRUSADE
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—The letter sent by Major Van der Byl's correspondent in Canada, which appeared in your issue of September 20th, is terrible reading, and unfortunately every word of it is true.
Yet the cruelty of the fur trade goes on, and most newspapers and journals hit, to advertise magnificent coats, etc., made from skins acgoired in this ghastly manner.
It is suggested, by a contemporary journal, that "the opponents of fox-hunting should turn their attention to this matter "—a suggestion which completely ignores the fact that they do (as enquiry would prove, for a wider sympathy in one direction does not make for a narrower in another).
Whereas I have found that while the majority of hunting people are devoted to horses and dogs, the suffering of a wild creature leaves thent quite unmoved. And—if it were a question of relinquishing her beautiful and becoming furs— one could hardly expect a woman who could hunt a fox for five hours and then see the exhausted creature dug out of a drain to be "broken up" by hounds to be less callous than the Canadian trappers themselves !—I am, Sir, &e., (Mits.) M. A. BUISTEAD.
Netherwood, Tupsley, Hereford.
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