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ducers out or you are not doing your full duty. And we want the butter- 

 makers. I tell you it's a good deal to me; how I enjoy meeting butter- 

 makers at meetings of this kind. I had the honor of founding the dairy 

 school in Minnesota; I also had the honor of founding the dairy school in 

 Michigan, and I am proud of it. I am getting to be an old man, and child- 

 ish, but I am leaving this monument on earth, and I am proud of it. 



I believe this, that so far as the quality of butter sent out by Minnesota, 

 Iowa and Michigan is concerned, we have laid relatively too much emphasis 

 on instructions to buttermakers. We have not taught them too much; that 

 is what we should have done, but not left the other undone; we should also 

 have instructed the milk producers. 



We are glad to see the buttermakers here and we want the commission 

 men here. We want to keep in close touch from the milk producer to the 

 consumer, and we want the commission men, the machinery men and the 

 supply men, but there is a certain class of people we do not want here. 

 Now God give me strength to say what I mean. There are people that come 

 to these conventions, not hoboes, not criminals; people of good intentions 

 that come to your convention, come to ours. We welcome them as men but 

 unfortunately they come to have a good time. I believe in having a good 

 time, but I pray God to forever keep from us men who come here primarily 

 to have a good time. They will not set the proper limit to that good time. 

 When cold reason is banished by red wine the man ceases to be a soul and 

 becomes a devil, and may God forefend us from the diabolical things that 

 happened last night. If we could, we would banish the whisky element 

 from meetings of this kind. We want to welcome all classes of men to these 

 conventions that are interested in the conversion of corn into butter and 

 cheese, in the making of the products of our farm into things for the com- 

 munity to eat, and we only want to draw the line on people that abuse our 

 confidence, the men that come here not for any legitimate business but to 

 have a good time. That much I have felt, Mr. Chairman, constrained to 

 say, and I thank you for your kind attention this afternoon. 



The President : I want to say I am pleased the professor 

 spoke as he did, especially the last part of his remarks, and I 

 am more glad that it met with the sentiment it did from the 

 people here, because I believe that he expressed the sentiment 

 of the dairymen and buttermakers of the State Dairy Association 

 of Iowa. 



Mr. Moore: I heartily second Mr. Smith's remarks in 

 regard to this unfortunate business and, as president of the 

 Wisconsin Buttermakers Association, which holds its convention 

 the second week in this month, I hope there will be no repetition 

 of the disgraceful scenes which happened last night. I spoke 

 to some of the parties that were responsible for it, and warned 



