manager, it is the company's experience that the best is 

 the cheapest, and we mean to let live as well as live, but 

 said this solicitor, Louis don't work on Saturday afternoon. 

 I will shoe your horses any old time that you want them 

 shod. Yes, said the manager, Louis told us that when we 

 turned the horses over to him, that he was not working on 

 Saturday afternoons, and we always try and arrange ac- 

 cordingly, but when we get in a pinch he is always ready 

 and glad to help us, Saturday or no Saturday. And I am 

 still shoeing the Union Oil horses, in spite of their knowl- 

 edge of cheap shoeing. But this is not the only country 

 where horses' feet are ironed off just for the sake of doing 

 it, and to get some other shop on the standstill. 



As it happened in December, 1914, a stranger came in 

 my shop as I was working at the forge, he was looking on ; 

 I then asked him if he was working at this trade. He 

 answered in the negative, but, said he, I have lots of horses 

 shod in the East. I then asked him, What part of the East 

 are you from? He said, I am from Michigan. Just then 

 a coal dealer brought me a supply of coal. As it came in 

 sacks, he asked, What do you have to pay for coal here? 

 I told him $22.00 a ton. It surprised him, and, said he, 

 In Detroit they get coal delivered in the shops for $6.00, 

 or less. Yes, said I, but in this country they get $1.25 

 for shoeing a horse. Well, said he, that is what we have 

 to pay in Michigan. Then, said I, is this in the cities or the 

 country towns? Well, said he, right in Detroit. I really 

 thought in the East where all horseshoers had an oppor- 

 tunity to belong to the M. H. N. P. A., that they were all 

 getting no less than $2.00, as I had seen this many times 

 stated in the Journal and to me it always looked fair and an 

 encouragment for an organization, but I have come to think 

 it is like having some good laws that are not en- 

 forced. That's the way it often is with things. It isn't 

 all gold that shines. 



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