The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-07-01
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Spring Horse Fairs.


~ Certain agricultural Societies. S,
rallied, are holding >, Horse Fairs titi
t~rfthg. Horse Fairs are legitima q -
They should include In their objects tn,
development Of the best qualities of til.
'&fnpYl adapted to the varied uses fol
which man employs him. These qua .
lilies are well known to every agricul
.G4tIet, Aini need not he enumerated
Unfortunately a large proportion OF
Horse fairs" are hunlbu gs-are devi
soes f0r.obtainiDg money under false p.
stsHces. They ure nothing but hors,
races. Their object is not horse i'm
provement, but jockey profits; not to
benefit husbandmen and breeders, but
to swindie them aud their sons out of
their money by obtaining it by such
disguises. For 1t IL true that scores of
men attend these fairs, aud see the
oil the wrhnglings incident to scrub
racing, who would not he caught at
such place ii the wolf had not but on
eheeps ciothiy-if the real character of
the fair had been indicated in its an
OoeOJcement.v
NOW wslike to sec q horse 90! We
like to ride after one which can go! We
don't like 10 ride after one which cannot
go: and We will not If we can help it,
We are still more liberal. We like to
see good square matched trot between
two animals and even . good, lively
ciipity clip ola race between two to u
dozen blood horses. Per sc there is
nothing TO which we can object in such
.teiSls df relative speed, more than there
Is IN 4 trial Of draught horses, game of
base ball, a rowing match, or a wrest- |
ling bout. But we do not like decep- |
tio,.. We want things called by their
right ha,llcs. We want to know just
what we are going to buy, so far as adj
v<rtenlents can tell. Ii our boy John
co1les 10 us with the light in his rSes,
'ce here, father, there j. to be horse
fair Oh the fair grounds oi the Blank
AGRICULTURAL Society the 18th day of
June-mayh't go'' aud ifin our I'M
Sophisticated Innocence we let him 90,
We don't want him to come back aud
tell US that it was only racing bout
that pools were sold. races were
".thnwn." greenhorns were swindled,
heads were broken, packets picked aud
9pau.sem''nium let loose generally.
We protest against such ''horse fairs
we denounce them. They accomplish
no lood. They do much harm. They
are rot half rs safe and respectable rs
. thoroughly organized Jockey Clubs
race course. For there rigid rules are
impartialiy and surely enforced. But
at these "lorse fairs racing rules are
rarely enforced. aud they are the fields
O! paradise to every b oxen down, dead.
beat is.ckey AMI gambler i.kpncket
anti suntitlence operator who can scrape
together money enough to pay ior an
admission ticket, or who il agile enough
to scale the fair ground fence and get at
IltIf n 81 Nil
in.
Horse fairs, forsoaih! We should like
to See n single announcement of one
that is not in its premium list II libel on
SeG TkSne. We should hike to advertise
y hight down honest horse fair. The .
1ar1 II, we have not 4st.en ,ingie one
advertised that does not mean il horse |
race. purely and abstractly, Us much us
sample room" means IL drinking sa-
kon.
Let Us have horse fairs. Let them be
places for the exhibition, examination,
comparative test of qualities and ex-
change of the best sock in the country
try speed. bottom, draught power,
show tile stock of stations and mares .
and compare them. and let every breed
~ az horses be pIofied thereby.
Gentlemen managers of Agricultural
1oeSties' a''' s"ilihie honest men ny
announcements of "hnr>e fairs" that
are nothing in the world, and hv their
nature aud associate ions can be nothing
in the world but the most favorable OBJ
portunltles for gamblers and vicious
men generally to prey upon and demon
a'iZe the innocent and unstlspeeting.-
and we give warning that we are going
10 denounee by name every such fair
mat comes within our notice no mat
ter how "respecahle" the names of the
officers controlling it. We know
elfOugh about such "fairs'' 70 be able to
show them up ;sn,s we are going to do
It. So stand from under,-Rurm New
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