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text, to discuss the merits of the present national color law. I am 

 not allowed to say, that the oleogarchy will not submit, if strate"--. 

 audacity and millions of money will defeat the provisions of the law. 

 I am off the track of my theme if I state, what you all believe, that 

 our interest in this legislation does not cease on the signing- of the 

 bill by the President, that eternal vigilance is the price we must nay 

 for the execution of this law, that I know of my personal knowledge, 

 that in St. Louis little of the high colored oleo is being sold to-day, 

 but that people are buying in Union Market every day the ''uncolored 

 goods," believing it to be butter, that this belief is based on a "slio-ht 

 shade of yellow," which the natural oleo has assumed in place of the 

 old '"greenery" "yellery" tint. 



There is still one branch of the literature of dairying of which I 

 wish to speak, and it bears directly on the subject of legislation. 

 Whether the present law is to be effective or not remains for future 

 history to disclose. I have my own opinion. I believe it is not the 

 last which Congress will be called upon to pass, and when that bill 

 comes up you have in your hands a power that for the specific purpose 

 of influencing legislation is mightier than the ballot, and greater than 

 the most clever and high handed lobby, and that is the postal card. 

 This species of dairy literature, aimed at your representative, embody- 

 ing in a few, brief, plain words your desire, has more weight than 

 columns of phillippies by the press. It beats the initiative and ref- 

 erendum, and it will beat a paid lobby all to smash, if there are enough 

 of you who will act. 



Congressmen will truly represent their constituency on any meas- 

 ure, providing that constituency speak up in no uncertain terms and 

 tell them what they want. If you think your representative in Con- 

 gress of the Legislature is wavering, snow him under with postal 

 cards. 



I do not wish to unduly emphasize the importance of dairy liter- 

 ature. I wish to place it before you in its right relations to all the 

 other factors in the world of dairying. The pride, ambition and en- 

 terprise of the individual members of the grand army of dairymen is 

 the real force. The Babcocks of the profession are the men behind 

 the guns. The guns of the campaign for better and more profitable 

 methods are the dairy and agricultural papers ; these are the gatlin^-s 

 and the maxims, I may say the weekly maxims ; and the official 

 bulletins on hundreds of topics bearing upon Dairy Science are the 

 six pounders ; the comparatively few text books of real value consti- 

 tute the rifled cannon, the disappearing great guns of coast defense. 



