FIFTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART IX. 613 



Mr. Fineli: Here is Iowa, over on one side of the house, with 

 a $4,000 man, and over on the other side are the railroad com- 

 panies, with ten or twelve $25,000 men. Let us raise money 

 enough so that Iowa will stand in the front. 



Mr. Drury: I am ready to second the motion that we create 

 this committee, with the exception that we add the secretary to 

 it. He has been a first-class lobbyist since he has been secretary 

 of the organization. 



Mr. Rittgers: It seems as though, from Mr. Thome's address, 

 there is just one man who blocked that business. Now, I don't 

 want to cast any reflections, but I am going to say right here 

 that that is just what you might expect. If you have watched 

 political conditions in the state of Iowa and in Dallas county 

 for the last five years, you must expect that very thing. You 

 men can say what you please about this organization pushing 

 something, but you can't push anything when you have the 

 newspapers against you and can't get a thing published to your 

 interests. Why can't you get the newspapers? You don't ad- 

 vertise your business; that is one reason. You don't need to try 

 to push anything in this legislature unless you can get power 

 enough to overcome the adverse pressure upon the press. You 

 have seen in the last two or three years how these things have 

 gone, and the same proposition is right up against us today. Just 

 as soon as you ask for an appropriation big enough to handle 

 this business, they will raise a great, big roar, and say in the 

 papers that you are trying to rob the state of Iowa to defend 

 this Meat Producers' Association. Do you suppose you will get 

 anything? I doubt it; not with the present man at the wheel. 

 "We will have to vote differently at another election before we 

 will ever get anything different. 



After some discussion with reference to the quarantine in 

 Greene county, in connection with the outbreak in the state of 

 the foot and mouth disease, which was participated in by Messrs. 

 Thompson and Doran, a recess was taken at 5 p. m. 



The President: The meeting will stand adjourned until the 

 banquet, which is called for 6:30 p. m. At 10 o'clock in the morn- 

 ing we will assemble in this room and continue our program. 



Folowing the banquet officers and directors from odd num- 

 bered districts were elected as follows: 



