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went to the depot in Des Moines this morning, under the impres- 

 sion that he could come here and speak this afternoon, return- 

 ing- to his home this evening. We liad no session this afternoon 

 and in order to come and address you this evening, it would have 

 been necessary for him to lose two days' time, which he did not 

 feel he could afford to do just now. Fortunately he was met in 

 Des Moines by Mr. AA^entworth, \\ho assured him that he would 

 tr}' and arrange for him t(^ appear tomorrow afternoon, and we 

 believe the arrangement will l)e entirely to our benefit, and if we 

 had to make the program again we certainly would have had 

 Governor Cummins in the afternoon. He will therefore address 

 you tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. 



We have a man who is ready and willing tc take the Gov- 

 ernor's place on the program. That man we can always call on 

 in times of emergency, and can put him backward or forward 

 on the program. AVe have put him forward tonight and Hon. 

 H. R. Wright will now address you in place of the Governor. 



ADDRESS. 



Hon. H. R. Wright, State Dairy Commissioner, Des Moines. 



Mr. President. Ladies and Gentlemen: I am reminded by a few 

 familiar faces that this is not my initial appearance on this platform. 

 The other occasion, as I remember it, was somewhat embarrassing; it 

 was a long time ago and almost everybody has forgotten' it, but I remem- 

 ber it quite well. I think it was seventeen years ago I appeared here 

 last, as a graduate of the West Side school, and I remember that liter- 

 ally my hair stood right up straight, partly because that was the fashion 

 then, but largely for other reasons which will suggest themselves to 

 you. And I remember another thing al)Out that; that is the bouquets 

 came at the other end of the speech; this time the bouquets seem to 

 have come first. 



You will oe surprised to learn that the dairy business is a new 

 thing. I suppose some of you (not these fellows in front, but some of 

 you) are familiar enough with the Bible to know that butter-making 

 and that sort of thing is spoken of in that good book; but what I mean 

 is that dairying in any modern commercial sense is comparatively new. 

 I think that has developed during the lifetime of most of us and has 

 advanced very largely during the last thirty or forty years. 



