The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-10

follows:
Expressers and heavy Drafters. ........ s7O0l10
$50 to HOO Chunks. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 45g %
Coachers and good ROadsters .......... 109G275
Ordinary drivers. .......-.---...---- oOS up
The market is steadily improving
and the end of 1896 will show a much
greater demand and better prices for
the light harness horse than ever be-
fore. Chunks are no longer profitable
and while heavy draft horses are in
fair demand, nothing will pay the
farmer better than to produce the
kind classed as rOadsters. With the
indulgence of those who read my
feeble attempts for the Announcements
of the light harness horse and the
promise not to transgress in like
manner again, / would like to say
a few words to those who affect to be.
Iieve that the raising of such animals
has a demoralizing effect upon the
public generally. 1 have lately been
made acquainted with the fact that
two very ardent church members and
hog fanciers have been declaiming
against the breeding of horses for
speed and the development of it after
wards on the grounds that it was
unworthy, sinful and immoral and as
these gentlemen hail from the res
pective states of Tennessee and Ken
lucky it is difficult to understand
their animOsity to speed in horses un-
less indeed it be the low price of hogs
and the groundwork of their COM
plant little petty palousy at the
good prices obtained by the horse fam
ciers. Consistency is a jewel and
because a man raises and develops a
good horse without racing him and
sells him to a man who may do so. |
cannot see wherein he is one whit
worse than he who fattens hog and
sells him to butcher. The hog man
says horse racing is attended with
gambling which is an evil and the
development Of speed encourages 1T.
Just so with raising hog he puts the
means into the hands of a butcher,
who may be dishonest enough to give
short weight to his customers. Which
is the worst? Yet horses and hogs
are demanded by the public, and the
cultivation of each is honorable
enough in itself What the public may
do with them afterwards will lend no
shadow of dishonor upon the breeder.
Every body recognizes in Talmage
the emminent divine, a great mind
and on several occasions he has been
pleased to commend the light harness
horse from his pulpit saying that it
was a great pleasure t. him to ride
behind a fast trotter or PAGER and 60
ing so far as to say that he saw no
harm in trials of speed and endur-
ance between horses but he did not
like the attendant evils of gambling
and to the gentleman's credit be it
said that he has been one of the prom
inent road riders of New York and
was ready at any time to brush with
all corners. With such men 10 drive
the horses that we breed and develop
there could of course be no wrong.
But unfortunately there is but one
of his kind though at least it should
be teaching and example enough to
those who profess to follow the doc
trine that he breaches. The innate
love of horse that is born in every
Tennesseean or Kentuckyan will
assert itself after awhile and expect
to see these gentlemen abandon the
hogs and engage in what eventually
must prove to be the leading indus
try of Kansas, i. e, the production
and development of the light harness
horse.
NOTES.
1Trotting bred horses fill the bill as
park horses judging from the prices
paid for chunks in eastern cities.
Nancy Hanks 2:04 the ex-queen of
the turf is reported to be in foal. This
report has been given to the public
regularly about this time each year
since her retirement, but so far Nancy
has failed to do duty as matron.
Lord Lamington the last survivor
of the gaming committee of the Brit
ish House of Commons whose report
suppressed public gambling in London
stated in BlackwOod's Magazine short
Iy before his death that chad they
been aware of the dimensions which
private gambling was destined to Jas
sumo they would never have recon-
mended the abolition of public gam
bling which Of the two is by far the
less injurious and liable to abuse"
Two yearlings by MOquette 2:lO,
sold lately for $1,000 and went to Chi
cago. where "chunks" sell for S45
each. Score one more for the light
harness horse.
$1,000, L. na(T,yto The CIOfbierS