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charge twenty-five cents per hour, or two dollars and a half per 

 day." 



But coming back to the live stock industry, you are bound to 

 admit that it has been a most potent factor in placing you in the 

 honored position you occupy today. Why, my friends, let Miss 

 Long, Colonel Brown, Lee Brothers, Hook & Woods, 0. J. Mooers, 

 Rufus Jackson, E. D. Moore, Houchin & Anderson, and others of 

 equal note, cease their operations and you would see the fine horse 

 business in Missouri as dead as prohibition in Tennessee. 



But laying aside all humor, I am glad to be with you, and when 

 I look upon the magnificent buildings of this wonderful institution, 

 and see in, every nook and in every corner the valuation and ap- 

 preciation you have bestowed upon this younger generation, giv- 

 ing to them the benefits of the environments of honest, capable, 

 trained minds, ignoring expenses and looking only to future possi- 

 bilities, I no longer marvel at your magnificent progress, nor can I 

 estimate or prophecy your future achievements. Your college 

 stands out pre-eminently head and shoulders above all other insti- 

 tutions of its character, and the monument you have constructed 

 here is the grandest, most sacred heritage that mankind can be- 

 queath to his children. The atmosphere, the determination, and 

 the exalted plane upon which you have placed your teachings 

 demonstrate that you have ordained your sons to be leaders of men 

 and not followers. Honestly, as proud as we Kentuckians are, I 

 can not but feel the bitter pangs of regret, and wish my parents 

 had have lived in Missouri during August, '71. 



Yes, I'll testify that you Missourians are hard to beat in any 

 kind of competition, I don't care what it is. There are others, 

 too. 



I have a friend in Kentucky who shows mules. Several years 

 ago he shipped out to Missouri, tackled the Missouri mule and went 

 down in defeat. Shortly after his return I met him, and said to 

 him, "Well, Tuck, what luck?" He said, ''Mattie, don't you know 

 they beat my pair of jacks." I said, "That's nothing; they beat 

 Star McDonald, Edna May, Red McDonald and Kentucky Choice — 

 four of a kind — for me." 



My mule friend has never been, back to see you, but the lick- 

 ings you gave me have not hampered my desire or daunted my 

 courage to tackle you again. Right now I serve notice upon you 

 that I'm going to be troublesome this year. You know we never really 

 respect a fellow until he has licked us, and that being very true, I 



