The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28
THE HORSE rs STILL WITH US.


For the past TIVE years readers of the daily
press have been informed at frequent intrvals
that the world was approaching the horseless
age. That prediction made its first appearance
when the bicycle came so generally into use
thatfor time it was almost as common on the
roads and streets as the automobile is now.
But the bicycle came and waned and the horse
still retained his place in the world Of industry
and pleasure. Then came the application of
electric energy to city transportation. The
trolley cars were perfected and then, according
to the gazers whose eyes were seeking the
horseless age, they were cocksure that the doom
of the horse had been rung After time it
became apparent that except for relieving the
horse from drudgery that his lovers had ever
hoped he might be freed from, the oft-predicted
|horseless age was as far in the future as ever.
The automobile, the motor truck and tractor
have come, have justified their efulness under
certain conditions, and still the horseless age
has refused to make its appearance Horses,
good horses, of all kinds bring higher prices
than they did twenty years-ag and the demand
for them is greater.
The reason: The love that man has for a
servant and companion whose beauty, grace, In
tel1igence and faithfulness give the horse place
in the affections that no mechanical device can
possibly rout him from. The Unborn love for
the horse that marks every nor1nalmlnded
person Will not and cannot be obliterated
The horseless age! It is only Pigment of the
imagination of the exceptional person who is
in the same class with the one from whom the
little child instinctively turns or dog avoids;
or Of the man who writes the copy for the adj
vertisements Of motor vehicles. Long after
they make their exit from hfe's stage the horse
viii, as now, be found giving his honest serv-
ice wherever it is needed and contributing to
the pleasure and health Of the human race in
the home life, in the show ring, On the turf or
wherever his serviceability, his faithfulness, his
beauty or his swiftness contribute to that end
Apparently the department of agriculture at
Washington will be unable to give the farmers
and the consumers a fair deal next year with
out an appropriation of ten million dollars, by
the expenditure of which someone will devise
means for obtaining fair prices; that is to say,
fair prices for large and ornamental depart t
ment whose expenditures will add exactly ten
million dollars 1.-The cost Of things we have to
eat and drink. The situation as regards trans
portation of food from farmer to consumer I
leaving three-fourths of it in the hands !
Of middlernen is now almost hopeless. Let
government department bite into its POSSIBLE /
ties and all hope is lost
Looks like Mr.. Harding was going to be Civ
en- very nice present ON his fifty-ninth birth
happens to fall on November sec
ond by the way. 4..
General de la Huerta, having survived his /
term Of Office, the Mexican government is now
confronted with the stirring problem of "what I
to Do With Our Ex-Presidents
Prices viii drop, says authority. Prices
will remain high says another When wise /
men disagree, what can stupid folk thinki