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tific manner, and as a result we have the Standard Oil 

 l'oni})any and 21 years ago Mr. Rockefeller was worth a 

 hundred million dollars and since that time he has made 

 ( nongh, riding on the car between Cleveland and New York 

 CAty and playing golf, to be worth over a billion dollars. 

 Very few of us think he has earned that amount in the last 

 21 years, but we would have taken it too if we had had the 

 opportunity, but we lacked the opportunity and foresight. 



But we do not want to keep on making Vanderbilts and 

 Kockefellers at the expense of the common people. If they 

 have set us a splendid example how to make money, how to 

 work together, liow to co-operate, how to organize, how to 

 have our corporation, how to do things on an absolutely 

 economical basis, then it is better for us to imitate them 

 before it is too late, it is better for us to get in line with 

 ]nodern methods. 



It is only a few short years ago since Massachusetts 

 sent to that western city in which I w^as born, a Wonderful 

 man, a magnificent character, a man who entered at once 

 iiito the food distributing Inisiness. I refer to ]Mr. Swift. 

 He did a great work for the people of that country out 

 there, established and opened markets, bought their goods, 

 <!id a great deal for the consumers throughout this country, 

 gave them the very best products that could be produced 

 from the hogs and cattle and sheep that he bought in the 

 west. He accumulated a great fortune and left a splendid 

 family of sons and a splendid daughter, who are still carry- 

 ing on that magnificent business. It is highly co-operative, 

 a splendid example of what can be done ; but in this food 

 I'usiness that we are in we have no great master minds 

 that were working for the common people. The examples 

 you have seen are of men who were out for personal gain, 

 for the gain of the corporation of which they happened to 

 l-e the head. 



Though this agitation has been going on for the last 25 

 > ears/ about four years ago in New York State we reached 

 XI point where the Grangers, the New York State agricultural 



