JOINT SESSION 



OF 



STATE FARMERS' INSTITUTE 



AND 

 Corn Belt Meat Producers' Association 



Y. M. C. A. AUDITORIUM 



8 O'CLOCK, Tuesday Evening, Dj^cember 11, 1906 



The joint meeting was called to order by President Morrow of 

 the State Board of Agriculture, who introduced Vice-President 

 Maher of the Corn Belt Meat Producers' Association as chairman 

 of the evening. 



In introducing Hon. A. B. Stickney, president of the Chicago 

 Great Western Railway, as the speaker of the evening, Mr. ]\laher 

 said: 



"I am now introducing to you President Stickney of the Great 

 Western Railway. He has been the farmer's friend as long as I 

 can remember, so far as a railroad president can be the farmer's 

 friend. Mr. Stickney 's road is never represented at the legislature 

 here by lobbyists. He was our friend when we made the fight to 

 get back the return pass. He is a man of wide experience, and I 

 am sure that we will all be benefited by what he has to say to us 

 this evening." 



RAILWAY FREIGHT RATES. 



A. B. STICKXEY, PRESIDENT CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN EATLWAY COMPANY. 



The subject which I am to discuss this evening is the importance of a 

 simplified schedule of rates under the interstate commerce law. 



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