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that the manufacturer should have the option of marking it "process 

 butter" if he so desires. 



We expect to go before congress next session to ask for amendments 

 to the law of 1902 covering all the weak points. A law is like a boat; 

 you can never tell where the leaks are until you put it in the water. 

 We will have had two years' trial by the time the next congress comes 

 around and we expect to go before them then with the perfected bill. I 

 thank you. 



President : We have with us Mr. Brig-ham, state labor com- 

 missioner, who will address you. 



ADDRESS. 



E. D. Brigham, Des Moines, Iowa. 

 Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Convention: When your 

 secretary extended an invitation to me to be present here to say some- 

 thing to you, I assure you I accepted with pleasure, and while it fcay not be 

 clear to you where any affinity exists between the bureau I have the honor 

 to represent and the dairy interests of this great state, I believe you will 

 all agree with me that labor is an essential element to the conduct of 

 the dairy industry. The able speakers who have preceded me have called 

 your attention to the necessity of a proper exhibit at the St. Louis Ex- 

 position, and have covered the ground quite thoroughly I believe, and yet 

 I have something to add, which I believe will be of interest to you. Iowa 

 land at $100 per acre and going up, to be successfully tilled, needs the 

 assistance of the dairy industry. The dairy industry in Iowa we know to 

 be in ttys front ranks as compared with other states. It seems to me that 

 it is neccessary in order to maintain our position in the front ranks to 

 put up at St. Louis a splendid exhibit of the dairy products of Iowa, 

 and in connection with that it seems to me that the dairy appliances and 

 dairy machinery that is manufactured in Iowa ought also to be represented 

 in the best possible manner. By getting together and getting a close 

 interchange of ideas it will be an easy matter to accomplish a result I 

 have started out to accomplish, namely the establishing of a Reciprocal 

 League among the manufacturers of Iowa to patronize each other; and all 

 of this means of course added employment for our labor. Now you can 

 begin to see where I am at. If our labor is all well employed we will have 

 a good home market. If we have a good home market you get the largest 

 possible price for the product you make. I am endeavoring to furnish 

 every manufacturer, every person who uses a manufactured article in 

 Iowa, the names of the firms who manfacture any line of goods they want. 

 In a few days I will have the names of all the manufacturers who employ 

 over five men. I believe it is an important thing and that this work will 

 be very beneficial to the people of Iowa, and especially to the labor they 

 employ, to put them in close touch with each other. And while labor is 

 fully employed, as it is at the present time, under very satisfactory con- 

 ditions, we are giving much attention to it. The principal object of my 



