No, he cannot, and I write from experience. The figures given by the Cape Cod doctor put him in the Ananias club as the biggest liar of them all. Auto owners, please copy. But you can keep a horse and buggy for that amount and go on all kinds of streets and roads at all seasons of the year, and your horse holds his value, while your new machine is a secondhand thing in a week's time and you cannot get one-third what you paid for it were you to offer it for sale. The automobile press bureau is making desperate efforts to hold the attention of the public to the auto.
Horse breeders have no press bureau, but they are smiling and growing rich.
The great demand for the American light harness horse, both foreign and domestic, for the last 15 years, not to mention the draft horse, has put them in clover and there seems to be no prospect of any diminution for many years to come. Anyone doubting this statement let him inquire about the demand for such animals and then see what they sell for on the market, especially if he thinks of buying an auto to save expenses or as a good investment. E.V. Coe Lewiston, Idaho Historic letters to the editor from early editions of The Spokesman-Review and Spokane Chronicle will appear on the Opinion page on Tuesdays. Perhaps your family scrapbooks contain a letter from one of these papers. If you have a comment or reply to this story that you'd like to share, fill in the form and click submit.