It is a fact that all of man’s creations from any primitive life, either animal or vegetable, will degenerate and cease to be, while of God’s perfect creations, all continue the same.

We will condense on the horse.  The Arabian is the most pliable in its blood of any other known to man.  From it, any other type can be created.  Once a type has been created, it must be sustained in itself by close breeding, which can be continued for quite a number of years without degeneracy.  For invigoration or revitalizing, resort must be made to its primitive blood cause.  To go out of the family to colder or even warmer creations of man means greater mongrelization of both blood and instinct, also to invite new diseases.

Nothing is more infatuating than the breeding of horses.  A gifted practical student in the laws of animal life may create a new and fixed type of horse, but it can be as quickly destroyed by the multitude, through ignorant mongrelization.

In the breeding of horses, our people are wild; and in no industry can our government do more good than in making laws relating to their breeding.  It can father the production of a national horse without owning a breeding farm.  It can make blood and breeding a standard for different types, and see to it that its laws are obeyed, thus benefiting all the agriculturists, and have breeding farms in America; and also itself as a government, financially.  We must not however begin upon the creation of other nations, but independently upon God’s gift to man, as did England, France, and Russia.  That a government should interfere in the breeding of horses is no new thing.  The Arabs of the desert boast to this day of King Solomon’s stud of horses; but in each and every instance where a nation has regulated and encouraged the breeding of the horse to a high standard of excellence, they have all begun at the primitive, or Arabian.  Thus England in boasting of her thoroughbred race horse admits it to be of Arabian origin.  Russia in boasting of her Orloff trotting and saddle horse tells you it is of Arabian origin.  France boldly informs you that her Percheron is but an enlarged Arabian, and offers annual special premiums to such as revitalize it with fresh Arabian blood.

After the war of 1812 our forefathers imported many Arabian stallions to recuperate the blood of their remnants in horses.  From 1830 such prominent men as Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay said all they could by private letter and public speech to encourage the importation of and breeding freely to the Arabian horse, and specially did the State of Kentucky follow the advice of Henry Clay, so that from 1830 up to 1857 Kentucky had more Arabian stallions in her little district than the combined States of the Union.  Kentucky has had a prestige in her mares since the war, and it comes in the larger amount of Arabian blood influence she has had in them, than could be found elsewhere.  Kentucky is shut in, as it were, and retaining her