FOURTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART V. 269 



So far as the combination in opposition is concerned, I want 

 to say to you that it is an organization with millions of money 

 behind it and a willingness to spend it; and so far (although I 

 have no desire in any way to fin.d fault with what has l)een done, 

 because there is a host of dairymen and creameries of the United 

 States that have come to our rescue and contributed to the sup- 

 port of this movement) we have not had the mone}^ to nght our 

 cause that the oleomargarine people have. T will make this 

 assertion, and I beheve I make no mistake, that if we had one 

 dollar to their hundred we could follow them through the courts 

 of the United States ; we could meet every move they would 

 make. 



It has been the cry with us from the start, we have had to 

 keep after you to get money. I am glad the meeting has been 

 called in connection with this association, for the fact is had it 

 been impossible for us to have had a meeting this year I fear the 

 organization would have been forced to disband before another 

 year. 



T wish to give you freely the situation as it is at the present 

 time and then the question will be up to you. W^e want an 

 expression from you. I am sure of this fact, and that is that 

 the officers of this association have no desire, unless it is the 

 earnest wish (and even then I do not know whether we will be 

 able to carry on the work or not) of the dairymen of this coun- 

 try, to continue the work in their behalf. 



The conditions are these: A suit comes up for trial the 30tli 

 of this month, the first before the Supreme Court of the 

 United States, in which the constitutionality of the oleomar- 

 garine law is attacked. And I want to say so far as the oleo- 

 margarine people are concerned, they are represented by the best 

 lawyer in the United States, one acknowledged as such. He is the 

 man who attacked the inheritance tax law^ and brought it to a 

 successful issue. They have him employed and I want to place 

 the question before you, while they have an enormous amount 

 of money, yet if they do not hope ultimately to win, why do they 

 employ a man like Mr. Guthrie to plead their case before the 

 Supreme Court of the United States? That case comes up the 

 .-^oth of this month. 



