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hope that they will be general and not partial. It will not 

 be quite enough to produce in improved character and 

 greater quantities the sort of horses Ave now lack, if we do 

 not endeavour to render trade relations concerning them 

 purer, more popular and feasible. To do so we have only 

 to pay the same amount of respect and attention to the 

 principles which direct and the laws that govern horse- 

 trading that we do to some other commercial pursuits. 



Before any one can be capable of guarding others against 

 errors and impositions, he must first make himself master 

 perfectly of in what the evils consist, and how fraud and 

 injustice is practised. To shield others, experience in the 

 cases from which danger may result will suffice ; but to 

 <letect the means by which objectionable practices are put 

 into operation, it becomes imperative to have been brought 

 much into contact with circumstances that give rise to 

 their oi^eration, and to have from actual experience derived 

 an intimate knowledge of the system and machinery that 

 operate to foster and support the dishonest man at the 

 expense of his upright and comparatively helpless neigh- 

 bour. Then, and not till then, is any person or body 

 qualified to give beneficial hints, or make salutary' laws 

 conducive to the protection of the unwary or inexperienced, 

 and to the general credit of the horse-trade when in the 

 hands of dangerous persons. 



I now approach a portion of my subject that I cannot, 

 like the druggist's pills, wrap in silver leaf, for the i:)urpose 

 of permitting the cathartic and invigorating principle of 

 the compound to come into active and salutary operation 

 without imparting (to a certain class) a taste of the bitter. 

 But as classes, as Avell as individuals, are but units to be 

 sacrificed to the great total of public weal ; though, as a 

 man, I may deplore the necessity that inflicts pain upon 

 others, no matter how unworthy ; yet, as a public servant, 



