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good horses will be greatly increased. In short, a study of the 

 laws of breeding and an inauguration of a good systematic effort 

 will make Missouri even more important than it is now in the pro- 

 duction of both draft and light horses of the highest type and ex- 

 cellence. 



The President (Hon. T. J. Wornall)— Gentlemen of the Con- 

 vention : As another token of Missouri's greatness and of her recog- 

 nized greatness among the states of the Union, we have on our 

 program tonight a brainy Kansan, who has chosen this for his 

 home — a man that needs no introduction, I am proud to say, to 

 the people of Missouri, nor do I think to the people of this country 

 at all, for he has tracked to his lair and brought to bay that artful 

 dodger, John D. Rockefeller himself. And it gives me great pleas- 

 ure to introduce to you, if you can take it as an introduction, know- 

 ing him as you do, General Hadley, Attorney-General of Missouri, 

 who will talk on "Combinations." (Applause — continued ap- 

 plause.) 



COMBINATIONS. 



(Hon. Herbert S. Hadley, Attorney- Geiit-ral of Missouri.) 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is not often that 

 I have occasion to entertain a difference of opinion with my good 

 friend. Senator Wornall. He is a very agreeable gentleman, al- 

 though I have sometimes thought he was a little bit off on the 

 tariff question. (Applause.) But when I realize the fact that 

 I enjoy tonight the distinction of being a Missourian, as a matter 

 of choice and not as a matter of accident, I have to express just a 

 slight difference of opinion as to the correctness of the Senator's 

 introduction. I concede to the Missourian who is born in this great 

 State the sense of satisfaction he may feel in being a native citizen 

 of Missouri; but when I contemplate that I am a Missourian by 

 choice, and that I came to Missouri with my clothes on, I yield to 

 no man in my gratification at being a citizen of this imperial com- 

 monwealth. 



I do not know exactly the purpose of my presence here to- 

 night. Something like a month ago I received an invitation from 

 the President of the Missouri State University to come here upon 

 this occasion and just talk with my hands in my pockets, and that 

 I am prepared to do. I have no difficulty in performing the latter 

 part of that request, at any rate, as you will observe. That is a 



