206 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



Mr. J. G. Murtaugh, of Waterloo. 



Mr. President, Members of the Iowa State Dairy Association and 

 Visiting Friends: It is indeed with genuine pleasure that I stand be- 

 lore you tonight and welcome you to our city, welcome you to Waterloo, 

 which is known all over the length and breadth of this land as the city 

 of progress; welcome you to Waterloo, the public spirit of whose citizens 

 is known throughout the whole country; welcome you to Waterloo, a 

 lypical city of the twentieth century; and one which has elicited the 

 most favorable commendation of any in the whole United States, the 

 people of whose community are also mindful of the great advantages to 

 be derived from a convention of this character. We also know the good 

 influence that is brought to bear by the Iowa State Dairy Association, 

 and we believe that your deliberations here will have a tendency to ad- 

 vance the industrial interests of Waterloo and of the State. 



We also recognize the fact that in all these United States there is 

 no place in the Union that produces better dairy products than the grand 

 old Hawkeye State. I want to say to you tonight that your welcome 

 is sincere and that it is cordial. We give you the freedom of the city 

 and ask you to partake of the best that we have. 



I now extend to you the welcome of Waterloo on behalf of our 

 mayor and on behalf of our citizens, and in the name of Waterloo, the 

 most thriving and the most beautiful little city in the most magnificent 

 State in the Union. Thank you. 



RESPONSE TO ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



Hon. H. J. Neitert. 



Mr. President. Ladies and Gentlemen: It is with some reluctance 

 that I appear before you again this evening. I fear that I am becoming 

 something of a "chestnut" in connection with the Iowa State Dairy Asso- 

 ciation, but I presume there was no one else they could tickle with the 

 privilege of appearing before this august assembly excepting this weak 

 mind, and that is my excuse for appearing before you. 



We have certainly received a most cordial welcome from the citizens 

 of Waterloo. We appreciate this welcome from a city — as has been truly 

 said — that is known from all parts and all points of the compass of this 

 land, and yea even further, for I have learned in my sojourn in the city 

 this afternoon, in visiting a manufacturing plant, that they are sending 

 their manufactured product not only into all the markets of the United 

 States of any importance, but also to Glasgow in Scotland, London in 

 England, the Hawaii Islands, the Philippine Islands and other points 

 in Europe which I can not now recall. This certainly speaks wonders 



