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less it be the producer and consumer. The State does not 

 object to that bargain and if the consumer and producer will 

 stand for it, it will probably be legal for some time to come; 

 but what was the result? 



What w^as the working of the other law, the Commis- 

 sioner law. Governor Glynn selected a newspaperman, the 

 publisher of a farm journal as the Commissioner. He had 

 known him for years ; he had a general reputation of being 

 honest and if you will remember that, you older men, that 

 was the principal asset Abraham Lincoln had, yet he made a 

 reasonably satisfactory President to everybody. 



Now Mr. Dillon Avas appointed and he began in his 

 quiet unassuming manner to look the situation over. He 

 appointed as his chief deputy Mr. Tuttle, a man who had 

 been attorney for the street railway in New York, and a 

 man who owned a farm on Long Lsland, a man who was 

 earnest, who had his dreams and hoped to see them worked 

 out, and possibly he will, but ]Mr. Dillon, being a Democrat 

 and appointed under a Democratic Administration, was up 

 against a Republican Governor and a Republican Legisla- 

 ture, and this was a brand new business and people hesitate 

 to pioneer; that is why many of you are here instead of be- 

 ing out west; you wanted to stay with your old friends and 

 remain in the eastern country, while your sons and daugh- 

 ters, your brothers and sisters went west as my father did. 



They gave ^Ir. Dillon in the supply bill .$15,000 to carry 

 on a great state department for a year. It did not seem 

 very much. i\Ir. Dillon was very much disposed to quit, 

 but his friends urged him to sit still in the boat and wait 

 and see just what might happen. 



After a few months Mr. Dillon discovered that the 

 Bread Trust in New York had raised the price of bread, 

 claiming that on account of the elevation of flour prices it 

 was necessary, and they also curtailed or de-horned the loaf 

 of bread, as you farmers would say, that is cut something off 

 it. Well, with a smaller loaf of bread at a higher price the 

 poor people were not overly well satisfied and we have many 



