290 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



have given liberally of their time without pay. It is no wonder they feel 

 somewhat pessimistic, and have perhaps themselves cast a little gloom 

 over this meeting — not with the intention of surrendering, I know them 

 too well for that. 



I wish to state before I go further that the paper we have just lis- 

 tened to is full of meat, full of strong and stubborn truths that have 

 been nicely treated. I only regret that more did not stay to hear the 

 rest of it. 



Now the fact is that it is up to the dairymen and creamerymen of 

 this country to say whether they will stand by this warfare for right and 

 honesty and for their interests, or whether they will surrender in dis- 

 grace. It is too bad that we have to stand in this hall and plead for aid 

 and support, and urge it year after year whenever we meet; but it is 

 true, it is necepsarj-. It is right that we should all put our shoulder to 

 the wheel. I am not discouraged. I feel that the dairym.en are not dis- 

 couraged, and I feel that if the cause is pushed as honesty and rigiit and 

 equity demands, they will all put on the harness, press hard against the 

 collar and push forward for broader and more close victories. 



As has been so clearly stated, you have no common trick or game to 

 deal with. Such men as Moxley, Avho have the best legal minds that are 

 in the lard in their employ. They never sleep when this question Is up 

 or when their unlawful business is attacked. Now then, are we to sit 

 still and look on, as it were listless and lifeless, and allow them to place 

 their hands in our pockets and take out the last shilling that is there and 

 ruin the business? As has been stated and as was mentioned in chis 

 valuable address thai: the gentleman just read, it is well that the price of 

 butter did not advance to enormous figures for the interest of the dairy 

 and the best interest of the law that has been enacted, because a howl 

 would have gone up over the country that we were selfish, it was special 

 legislature in the interest of a fev/. Now the fact is there are millions of 

 dairymen in this country who are interested in this cause. I can not 

 understand why we cannot raise suflicient funds for the good that has 

 been accomplished and through the efforts of our worthy secretary, our 

 president, Ex-Governor Hoard, and others of equal strength and standing 

 in our midst. 



We would not have had the law as it is today, which no doubt has 

 put millions of dollars into the pockets of the dairymen of the United 

 States, and I stand here ready to say that it is a wonderful feat to accom- 

 plish. — to go in single-handed, almost, as they did, into the halls of Con- 

 gress of the United States and secure the passage of this law with the 

 great opposition they had to contend with. (Applause.) 



It is not an easy matter. This is an age of organization and combin- 

 ation. It is necessary for us to combine, but there does not seem to be 

 much of a combination. There only seems to be a few. It is true that 

 every interest in the land appears at the halls of legislation. Whether 

 at State or National halls, that interest has a paid and talented lobbyist, 

 paid attorneys and men that are ever looking after their interests. They 

 never sleep; night or day there is some one on board all the time when 



