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v,ho sat in that conventien, if not every one, AA'as dead before 

 .s'.avery was done away with, yet those people who met there 

 m 1821 were right in their conclusions, but the time was 

 not ripe and they were obliged to wait for years and years 

 for the change; but now-a-days we change more rapidly, 

 quite more rapidly than w^e did in those earliest days, and if 

 this marketing system is to ])e changed, it will be changed 

 jtromptly. The American people, while they are not all 

 fj'om Missouri, yet they have the habit of the IMissourian of 

 wanting to be shown and Avhen they are shown they do not 

 hesitate and do not wait. 



In that early day when those people met in Baltimore, 

 most of our forefathers were riding about here in ]\Iassachu- 

 setts in ox-carts, and now our sons are not very Avell satis- 

 fled unless they have a twin six Packard or a machine of 

 equal power. (Laughter). 



Is there an ox-cart system at Avork in the marketing of 

 food-stuffs? Is that the reason some people claim that the 

 producer is getting about 35 cents of a dollar, that the con- 

 sumer pays for Avhat he produces? We all knoAV the st(n'y 

 of the 17 year old market-garden ])oy doAvn in Staten Island 

 that quarrelled Avith his father Avho Avas bringing the vege- 

 tables OA^er from Staten Island to Ncav York City; Ave knoAV 

 his record; he dreamed his dream and then he went about 

 in his systematic, methodical way, as he pleased, to Avork 

 out those dreams that he had dreamed, and that is hoAv Ave 

 came to get the Ncav York Central Railroad and that is 

 \A'here the foundation of the Yanderbilt family Avas laid. 

 but had he been absolutely satisfied with his market garden 

 business he Avould ncA^er have developed the NeAV York 

 Central Kailroad nor the millions upon millions of dollars 

 that he earned for liimself and his heirs. 



Out in Cleveland Ave had a man engaged in this food 

 business. He Avas energetic, deeply interested in handling 

 apples and cal)bages and turnips just as many of you are and 

 just as I have been and as I am, in Ncav York City, but he 

 dreamed his di'cams and AA'ent to Avork them out in a scien- 



