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break clown the color line so they can sell their cheap substitute for but- 

 ter. No dairyman should think for a moment that his business is not 

 threatened. Oleomargarine can be produced at from eight to eleven 

 cents per pound, hence if these fellows can sell their goods as butter, 

 they can afford to spend money for campaign purposes and fight the 

 dairjmen. 



Every indication points that the coming battle on this question will 

 be a fight to the finish between the manufacturer of bogus butter and the 

 dairymen of the country. 



In Illinois they have elected w^hat might be termed the champion of 

 bogus butter to the United States Senate. We have the spectacle now of 

 a man running for Congress in the Sixth District of Chicago whose fac- 

 tory has been fined a number of times by the U. S. court for the fraudu- 

 lent sale of bogus butter or oleomargarine. This gentleman has been 

 termed through the press "Bogus Butterine Bill Moxley." Such a com- 

 bination in the House and Senate should be a warning to the dairymen 

 that they must organize and be prepared for any emergency. I thank 

 you. 



President: There are many in this audience that know how 

 hard and long this association has worked for some state aid or 

 state appropriation. Now when your Legislative Committee visited 

 Des IMoines last winter we found at the head of ther Appropriation 

 Committee Mr. E. R. Moore of this city, and I am glad to intro- 

 duce this gentleman to you tonight. He will tell you something 

 about the appropriation and anything else that comes to his mind. 



ADDRESS. 



HON. K. R. MOORK, CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA. 



After accepting your secretary's kind invitation to address you I felt 

 some misgivings as to the propriety of appearing before you, for it seem- 

 ed improbable that a mere business man could have anything of value 

 to offer to the representatives of one of the greatest and most important 

 industries in the state. On pondering the matter, however, I recollected 

 that some six weeks ago I bought two Jersey cows. So now, when I shunt 

 the banking part of me into the background and keep only those two 

 dairy cows in the forefront I can truthfully insist that I am in the dairy 

 business and that our interests are in common. 



There is another reason why I should feel just a little afraid of dairy 

 and creamerymen. The creamery interests, about 18 months ago, came 

 near proving my ruin, at least my political ruin. After I was renomi- 

 nated for the legislature, the Democrats in this district met in conven- 

 tion and named as my opponent a creameryman. He was one of the 

 brightest, cleanest, ablest and most popular men in the county, and only 

 for the fact that he providentially withdrew and his place on the ticket 

 was filled by just an ordinary man, whom I easily defeated, I might last 

 winter have remained at home chewing the cud of sweet and bitter fancy, 

 while he would have been showing stubborn legislators how to make a 



