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I am glad to stand before you and say that we are receiving 

 that recognition, and we appreciate it. I just handed Mr. 

 Knight a letter from Chicago, forwarded to him here, and when 

 he opened it he said "Sam, we can't get away from them any- 

 where." 



I hardly know what to say to you — the crowd is so small. You 

 appreciate us, we know. We have a representation of the people 

 left in the city. We are laboring under the difficulty of having 

 the worst weather we have had this year, and I want to say to 

 you that we do not take it as a lack of appreciation of our efforts 

 that our meeting is not better attended. 



I want to make one more point from a farmers' standpoint, 

 and engaged in the dairy business. I take this view of it, that 

 the dairy industry today of the United States is absolutely the 

 only product, the only industry of the farmer that is protected. 

 That may seem to you to be a strong statement; it may seem 

 arbitrary, but I am candid when I say that the only commodity 

 we are selling today off our farms that is absolutely protected to 

 us, where the price is regulated by supply and demand, is but- 

 ter. I am also happy to say that in the National Dairy Union 

 organization we have the only organization, I believe, today 

 that ever undertook to accomplish a purpose, and that purpose 

 the protection of an industry and has been successful in 

 achieving everything they started out to do, and has gone 

 through every legal phase of the question and never lost a suit. 



The officers of your association do not take credit for that. 

 We are o©ly the instruments in the hands of the dairymen; they 

 have been back of us, have expressed their wishes and we have 

 tried to carry them out. I want to say further that if the beef 

 product of the country, the hog product of the country, the grain 

 product of the country were protected by the same organization, 

 the same kind of an organization with the same object in view, 

 we today would be enjoying their product just as we are today 

 enjoying butter. 



I am not going to take any more of your time. Your secre- 

 tary is here and has everything well in hand. As I stated 

 before, it is my duty to raise the funds to carry on the work. 

 He has a statement and will tell you how this is carried on and 

 the position we are in at present time. 



