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questions are up Ihat affect them. It costs thousands to do it, but it 

 pays to do it. And if we do not look after our business with the same 

 diligence and pay the men that spend their time and money and leave 

 their own business to suffer, then we should not have any laws in our 

 interest. 



•Now then, I do not want to discourage anyone, but I want you to 

 say that I am not a quitter on this subject. I want to stand by it and 

 desire that every creameryman and every dairyman in the country shall 

 stand by it. You have the law enacted, but you place laws upon the 

 statute books and they will never enforce themselves. It is simply by 

 the acts of the people that are in favor of the laws that they will be 

 enforced. 



As has been said here this evening, some of the employes of the 

 State, or some food commissioner, it appears too awful to be true, were 

 drawing pay from some of the opponents and still drawing their monthly 

 pay from the State that had them employed. But this is an isolated case 

 these men are astonishing. I have wondered in my own mind, when I 

 have thought about this, how they ever accomplished as much as they 

 did with the little aid they have had. I believe it to be (I would not 

 make the assertion if I did not believe it, its of the mind and not of the 

 heart) that if it were not for the legislation, for the law that was passed, 

 enacted, through the efforts of these men we would be suffering greatly 

 today, we would receive much lower prices for butter than we are receiv- 

 ing at the present time, because it is true that the consumption has been 

 enormous by our people and that has created the markets for butter to a 

 great extent. Still there are thousands of pounds and millions of pounds 

 in the cold storages ready to supply demand as soon as the fresh make 

 is less. We have not been able to export butter and compete with other 

 markets because our people could pay higher prices. 



Now as a clear business proposition, if they had supplied them with 

 oleomargarine as in years past (as has been told you this evening of the 

 great reduction in the make since the law was passed) if they had con- 

 tinued to increase their make, reason teaches me, business* thought 

 teaches me that it would have cut off the consumption of butter so great 

 'that you would have shrunk at least from three to five cents per pound 

 in the price of your butter for the last eight or ten months. 



You may think I am strong; this is strong, but it can not be stated 

 cOO strong because it is truth, and if we do not heed the warnings that 

 are given us in time we will have to suffer the consequence, and natur- 

 ally we will. 



Now then, we have had the report of the secretary. We know how 

 much they have received and what they have expended, and I am aston- 

 ished at the small showing that has been contributed from the good re- 

 sults that the dairymen and creamerymen have received from this. Now 

 what are wC to do? Are we to stand by and let this g'o by defeault. or 

 are we to continue the good work and help it along? 



I. for one, am in favor of urging every one to take an interest in this 

 matter. As said before, we must have an organization. We must not 



