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take your calves from their very birth and develop them so as to keep 

 them growing and expanding and developing without any back-set, 

 without any loss of time, why? Simply because it is money in your 

 pocket to handle them in that way ; it is an absolute loss to handle them 

 in any other way. 



The only way that the live-stock breeders of America can down 

 the scrub is not in trying to down some other breed, but is in a reason- 

 able in a sensible in a manly fashion joining hands in this combat and 

 making a common issue against the scrub of the country, and by this 

 united effort driving him from the fields and from the pastures of the 

 American stockmen. 



We cannot hope all to admire the same breed. If I should take 

 this audience to a great picture gallery and there ask you to pass 

 through those rooms, the walls of which were adorned with the handi- 

 work of the best arlists of the age, and ask you to point out the picture 

 you thought the best, would you all select the same? Why, certainly 

 not. Some of you would select the landscape scene ; some of you would 

 select the mountain views, where the artist has drawn a range of hills, 

 the foothills covered with the rich verdure of the plains, and sur- 

 mounted by the great snow white peaks that lift their heads and dis- 

 appear in the clouds ; some of you would select that as the acme of 

 the artist's skill. Others would take the picture, probably, that repre- 

 sents the sea coast, wh.re the artist has portrayed the inrolling waves 

 that come driven by the tide and by the wind, and break into spray, 

 and are hurled again upon other incoming waves — and you would point 

 to that as the picture that attracted your attention most. Others per- 

 haps would select the human form or the human face — the picture that 

 represents the beautiful woman ; and I will say that a beautiful face — 

 a sweet face — and the form of a woman — a pure woman — is what would 

 appeal to many. And so perhaps you would not agree in the selection 

 of the picture that appealed to you most; and thus it ever will be 

 while we have our fancies, while we have our fads, while we have our 

 reasons for attaching ourselves to this or to that. But let us be united 

 and let us be fair to our opponents. I want to say I honor the suc- 

 cessful champions of our opponents, our competitors. I want to say 

 to you in conclusion — you may sing me the sweetest songs that were 

 ever written to commend the champions of these other breeds, and I will 

 respond to the sentiment, I will echo the sentiment ; but when you sing 

 those sonjjs I will insist that they be sung in crescendo to the praises 

 of the noble Shorthorn. Go and gather the flowers that have been 

 scattered in the pathway of all these champions of other breeds, and I 

 will take them and place them upon the altar that has been reared to 



