that the auto is used some in place of horses, and admitting 

 the auto, like the horse, is not only good, but necessary, 

 but to think that the auto is crowding the horse out, that is 

 only like an idle dream, because the auto is too expensive 

 and is much the cause of the cost of high living. You can 

 take it like this : A five-year-old horse is much younger 

 than a five-year-old auto. What a horse is lacking 

 in speed, he outclasses the auto for endurance. Be- 

 fore the auto was known forty years ago, there 

 were but four million horses in this coun- 

 try, and they were valued at an average of $52.00 a head. 

 In 1914 the number of horses registered 20,000,000, at an 

 average value of $110.00 a head. Manufacturers and 

 wholesale concerns have experimented with auto-trucks, but 

 they are now replacing them with horses because the horse is 

 more reliable, more economical, better for endurance, and 

 they are man's good companions. The advent of the auto 

 will never detract from the glory which the horse rightfully 

 deserves. If you would only allow one-fourth of the ex- 

 pense on a team that you are forced to spend on an auto, 

 it would make your team look most beautiful, you can be 

 sure of this, the horse is here and is here to stay, as the 

 horse outlasts three machines. We may admit in the last 

 few years, the auto has been in full sway and has checked 

 the shoeing business some, but don't you know also it is go- 

 ing to an extreme and when we go to an extreme in any- 

 thing, something is going to go wrong. The time is still 

 remembered when the Puritans in their religious way they 

 dared not kiss their wife on Sunday, or his neighbor's wife 

 on any other day of a week. But now we are rushing to an 

 extreme of the reverse, so the law must take a hand and 

 stop love-making in public. And so it is with the auto, 

 everybody is trying to rush to the front, and the law should 

 take a hand in it to safeguard the public, a change is bound 

 to come. In the next ten years there will be many horses 

 taking the place of autos and horseshoers should buckle in 



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