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shall be very glad to show them to anybody 

 who will take the trouble to call on me. So 

 much for Shorthorn dams and grandams. 



"I shall most cheerfully submit four of my 

 two-year-old steers to the examination of an 

 impartial committee in comparison with other 

 two-year-old steers of Shorthorn breed ex- 

 hibited at Fat Stock Show of 1880, to deter- 

 mine the age from the mouth of the several 

 animals. 



"As to Mr. Anderson's denial of any con- 

 spiracy; the circumstances at Minneapolis, 

 Chicago, etc., interviews with Watson, the 

 statements they got from Watson, and the 

 continued correspondence Anderson holds with 

 Watson, are against him. When Mr. Watson 

 left my employ, he immediately writes Ander- 

 son that he can use his name for authority ; Mr. 

 Anderson writes Watson to come to Side View; 

 Mr. Watson goes. The circumstances certainly 

 favor the conclusion that there was a con- 

 spiracy, and Mr. Anderson is the victim of an 

 unfortunate set of circumstances if the charge 

 is not true. 



"The time has come when the Shorthorn ad- 

 vocates must meet the issues on their merits, 

 and not by suborning witnesses or forming 

 rings by which to secure partial and partisan 

 judges. Browbeating and bulldozing will not- 

 answer. Yours truly, 



"T. L. MILLER." 



We had taken up the past history of the 

 Hereford and Shorthorn progress and followed 

 it from 1742 when Mr. Tomkins commenced 

 flic improvement of Herefords, and Mr. 

 Charles Colling the improvement of Short- 

 horns, in about the year 1775, or a little earlier, 

 to 1834, when Mr. Henry Berry and his asso- 

 ciate breeders of Shorthorns, took the machin- 

 ery of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful 

 Knowledge, using Prof. Youatt as the author 

 to write up the Shorthorns and write down the 

 Herefords. Anyone that will follow the case 

 cannot come to any other conclusion than that 

 Shorthorn ascendency was secured and main- 

 tained by a conspiracy of the Shorthorn breed- 

 ers to advance their interest. 



We had proposed at first to continue and 

 bring down this history another decade from 

 1834 to 1851, but a personal and persistent 

 fight was forced upon us and we were obliged 

 to take it up and leave our purpose of bringing 

 up the past and take the present not that we 

 proposed to relinquish our plans, but simply 

 to lay them aside temporarily. It was our pur- 

 pose to show the course that Shorthorn men 

 have pursued to give their breed a prominence, 

 that they never were entitled to; and no 



amount of abuse, or any number of conspira- 

 tors or conspiracies could deter us from this 

 object or change our purpose. 



It was said in some leading journal about 

 this time, that if President Garfield should 

 disturb the Star Route conspirators or con- 

 tractors, there would be a war waged on him 

 and lies told about him that would surprise 

 the public. We were prepared for something 

 similar upon ourselves. We may have had men 

 about us that could be bought; we may have 

 had such men sent to us that we might take 

 them into our employ, and they from that 

 vantage point declare the lies that were used, 

 but we proposed to weed out this class and 

 employ men wholly in our interest, for we did 

 not propose to employ men working wholly in 

 the Shorthorn interest. At this time Mr. Wm. 

 H. Sotham was writing and publishing in the 

 "Drovers' Journal" his experience with Short- 

 horn men and their plans, and the means they 

 used against him and the Herefords, and we 

 called the attention of cattle breeders, stock- 

 men and farmers to 'this series of articles, 

 which we have preserved in this book, and to 

 the fact that the "Drovers' Journal," beside 

 these articles, was well worth the attention of 

 every man interested in live stock matters for 

 the general information on these subjects. 



With these statements, we gave our atten- 

 tion to the issues forced upon us by the advo- 



DE COTE (3060) 2243. 

 Bred by T. Edwards. (From a painting by Gauci.) 



cates of the Shorthorn interest; we quote again 

 from the Anderson letter of November 1, 1880: 

 "So far as his (Miller's) assertions are con- 

 cerned, about the control of agricultural soci- 

 eties and the use of the press of both this coun- 

 try and England and being engaged in dis- 

 honorable practices to keep the Hereford down 

 and the Shorthorn up. * * * There is an 

 old saying that right will finally assert itself 



