People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1897 — Horses Will Remain. [ARTICLE]

Horses Will Remain.

The horseless age is a long way off. It is out of sight, and is likely to remain so, notwithstanding the arrival of the bicycle and the motor wagon. When the reaper was invented pessimists foretold the starvation of the agricultural laborer. The sewing machine was bitterly fought by people who saw nothing in store for the seamstress. The world to-day knows the results. It is true that electric street railways have dispensed with the service of many thousand horses and that the bicycle has decidedly injured the livery business, and yet it is a fact that the export trade in American horses is making giant strides forward. The exports for 1895, just compiled, are ' $3,000,000 in value—about twice that of 1894. Europe will keep on buying American horses, and the equine which at home has survived the competition of the steam railroad and the trolley line will hold its own with the “bike” and the horseless wagon. Horses will he cheaper, just as watches are cheaper now than formerly, that is all.—New York Journal.