The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-10
BLUE BLOOD.

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opinions thcre may be to the contrary. w
believe in the virtues of blood in men a
much as we do in horses and cattle an,
sheep and hogs. The loIg haired cavalier
Of England, the gentlemen of princely mien
proud bearing, elegant manners and chivsl
rous courage, were IS much superior 10 al
the qualities that 90 to make up a man, I,
the crop 'eared, whining round head o
Cromwell, the puri!snicsl. bigotsd zsslots o.
ianaticism, as the starlight is to the flicker o
ta'low dips. Every cavalier was the soul O.
honor, aud imbued with courage and gal
lantry that nothing could dsunt and sense
OF justice that brooked no invasion. They
we're the friends of the weak aud the Cd.
pressed, they ever loved liberty and virtue
and their purse strings were always open to
the needy. They loved their friends ms
taey did themselves, and they wor
shipped at the shrine Of WON an,
because OF her purity and her gentleness.
Brave men, like all true brave men, they
we're gentle and kind and generous. The
oIue'blood of true gentilty coursed in
The veins OF their defendants all over this
southern land of ours, for i! was the
cavaliers who settlel Virginia, Msry land
and North Carolina and Georgia and other
southern provinces. The round.heads, the
short haired Puritans who talked through
their noses, who insugursted all.msnner of
prosecutions for opinions sake, we're lust the
opposite ofthe cavaliers in all thinas, save,
perhaps that they did possess brute courage.
They had no idea of trus gentility; never
felta noble impulse, never rose above the
groveling idea of self, ard their blood still
courses in the veinsi Of their defendants, a
coarse sluggish tide that believes that might
10 night unless 1t is against them, and that
s'll in adgurative sense burns witches. Nor
asa rule can you thoroughly eradicate
strain OF either blue or coarse blood in man
Or beast. 1t will tell and speak out when
aver The trial comes. The object of this
Article is not to discuss, however, the question
d blood In man so much as in animals.
but few days ago we were reading
accounts of the sales of thoroughbred horses
md cattle in Kentucky, and we were then
truck more forcibly than ever we were
before of the value of blood. We have n
PAPER before us now that tells of tho sale Of
FLOODED cattle, bulls and cows bringing ss
much rs SIS. 900 and 5000 and $500 each
md of yearling thoroughbred colts that
'versge $1,000 each. Now there is sound
ense In raising such stock as this. There ia
money in it, pleasure in it and fame in T.
kentucky is justly noted for the quality of
Is caltl', and its thoroughbred horses and
is sheep and hogs are not behind. Texas
an produce just as fine stock as Ken.
ucky cam. We have, in fact
'e'ter climate, and in our prairie
esions just as good water, limestone.
give them bone and muscle, and our native
nesquite and other grasses are just as fine as
nose OF kentucky or of any other state.
'silas, we are glad to DO able to state, has a
1904 horse association under whose auspices
aces are being run now. This is the way to
neourage the raising of thoroughbred horses
nd IT Is pleasure to know that our peonle
re alive to that fact, We see on our west.
70 and northwestern prairies great herds of
''''e and droves of horses being raised on
inches. They arc common stock, ,be .
ng horned cattle and the plug horse. With t
10 capital that these cattle and horses will c
"lzs by sale, stock farms of thoroughbred
'rses and blooded cattle could be establish. .
that would pay twenty fold more than tho C
arse rancho stock. What is the use of ,ba Q
'sr and tear on mans existence and the p
pense OF hiring sc res of hands to attend b
loooo or 10000 head of cattle. or a
U or 1000 head of horses, when fl
'nt or ten head of blooded cattle, Ayrshires "a
derneys, Devons, or Durhams will bring s,
orc money. and be a titho of the trouble, te
when fifteen or twenty head of thor. o.
saored yearling colts raised every wear
u bring five times as much money as tho ia
II bred Spanish plues These are simply W
siness propositions that must commend m
to men Of practical business sense
csc immense herds of long horned cat.
and droves of Spanish plugs take up too C'
ch room. They require too much land
" must gro great while DO devoted TO
irultural purposes, on which to feed. oil
sas ia rapidly settling up and these biz B'
ches of 80 600 and 100000 acres of land q" as
st DO cut up into farms and farm bouses Ii
st takethe places of the COW boys csmp. pc
.. Let us get rid of the coarse strains IN
ugly head. crop haired stock and repacs HI,
nth that of blue blood. that which is fine
valuable and therefore trac.able, kind and se'
lligent. th