PART XII 



Papers on Live Stock, Agriculture and Miscella- 

 neous Topics— Papers Read Before County 

 Farmers Institutes, Etc. 



THE IOWA STALLION AND JACK LAW. 



SENATOR A. L. AMES. 



(Before the Iowa Draft Horse Breeders' Association.) 



Mr. Chairman, Gentlemen of the Horse Breeders' Association, and 

 Students of the Short Course of Iowa. — It is a great pleasure to me to be 

 with you at this time. I am glad of the opportunity of going over this 

 law and am also glad that you have in your hands not only a copy of the 

 law in this state hut other states as well, so as to give you some concep- 

 tion of the differences there is between the laws of other states and the 

 Iowa law. Iowa has the best horses, grains, soil, and people and it will 

 continue to be the best if we safeguard it. I have received letters from 

 farmers and breeders over the state calling my attention to this very 

 fact, which is the reason why I devoted my time two years ago to the 

 drafting of this law. I was not entirely alone in this work for I had the 

 assistance of all the men that I could get hold of who were working for 

 the same thing and were interested, as well as the help of associations in 

 other states. I had such men as Dean Curtiss of this school, and the 

 directors of the breeders association in Chicago. In fact we went into 

 this matter as fully and carefully as possible in drafting this law. And 

 any law, I do not care what it is, that is to protect the people of this or 

 any other state in a certain way will have some weak points and neces- 

 sarily work some hardships on certain individuals. Also I believe that 

 this law in the state of Iowa is one of the best of any of the laws in the 

 other states in the union. 



Now there are a good many points that have been criticised. They 

 say that the law is not constitutional. We went into that matter with 

 some of the best constitutional lawyers in the state and determined as far 

 as we could that the law is constitutional. The police department in this 

 state makes this law constitutional in my opinion. I have no more right 

 to bring a horse in this state that is affected with a contagious disease 

 and offer him for public service or to my neighbors than a man has to 

 open his door in case of diphtheria and distribute it to his neighbors. 

 The law is quite plain I believe in naming all of its holdings. 



