. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. HISTOEY OF HEKEFORD CATTLfc 355 that into consideration. A sentence of three months at hard labor is the lightest sentence I can pass upon you/' It is well to note here that the Birmingham Society did not sit tamely down and let the exhibitor of this bull come back to their show the next year and carry off the Sweepstake prize; but commenced an action against Mr. Hopkins, and put a stop to his further depre- dations. The "Century" for February, 1881, discusses the different methods now
. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. HISTOEY OF HEKEFORD CATTLfc 355 that into consideration. A sentence of three months at hard labor is the lightest sentence I can pass upon you/' It is well to note here that the Birmingham Society did not sit tamely down and let the exhibitor of this bull come back to their show the next year and carry off the Sweepstake prize; but commenced an action against Mr. Hopkins, and put a stop to his further depre- dations. The "Century" for February, 1881, discusses the different methods now in vogue, by which parties take that which does not belong to them. They say: "He who takes by stealth what belongs to another, is a thief. He who takes by violence is a robber, and a robber is properly supposed to disappear with other predatory animals before the progress of civilization. But this is a superficial judgment. The force that unlawfully dispossesses men of their prop- erty, passes through many transformations, but no force is more persistent. Men are plundered nowadays, plundered in America, more than in England in the days of Eobin Hood. There are men among us, beside whose robberies, those of the brigands of Italy and Greece, and the Bedouins of the desert are merely pleas- antries. Of all the triumphs of invention, none are more wonderful than that by which the hard earned gains of millions are forcibly con- veyed to the treasuries of the robber princes. Ko business is more highly organized, more stealthily pursued, more successfully managed than the business of robbery. Yet under all this elaboration of method, it is robbery; and nothing worse or better. The peculiarity of the modern method of robbery, is the employ- ment by robbers of the state, as their enforced agent and ; The "Century" here opens and develops meth- ods that are of interest to us in the discussion of the live stock interests of America. We have called attenti
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