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city in the. country and I am confident we have the most 

 honest. I-helieve we have the best doctors in the world and 

 r am very sure Ave have the poorest. We have lawyers that 

 ■compare favorably with the doctors and We have egg and 

 butter and cheese dealers and dealers in fruit and vegetablny 

 that compare with the professions, they are good, bad and 

 indifferent. 



We are not here to try those people ; we are not here to 

 condemn them, we have courts to attend to that and they 

 have done well. There was an investigation of one of the 

 lines known as the commission business. The Attorney- 

 Oeneral's office has the reports on file now; I will not under- 

 take to quote them exactly, but the language was somewhat 

 to this effect. "If we do eliminate all these people in the 

 business, you have no relief at hand and ready." But after 

 investigating the books and going through them carefully it 

 was found that many, many accounts of sales wiere being- 

 sent out different from the actual sales. We accepted the 

 explanation that they Avere errors, but it did seem strange 

 that they were all made against the shipper, against the 

 {(reducer and in the interests of the commission man ; but 

 possibly he had a left-handed bookkeeper who could not 

 make any other kind of mistake. 



There are people who condemn Mr. Dillon, yet he has 

 collected tens of thousands of dollars for the farmer folk 

 who subscribe for his paper, from the commission men who 

 .'admitted they ^\iere cheating, when he asked lo examine 

 their books and they gave him. a check to send to that sub- 

 scriber. Don't you think it is good business, you hard- 

 headed New England people, to try out a system that is not 

 subject to error? Don't you think it is good business in this 

 day and age of progress to see if a better system cannot be 

 adopted ? 



Look about a^ou and see Avhat your friends and neigh- 

 bors are doing. Are the Avoolen mills here busy? If they 

 e.ve, does the man Avho runs the mill grab a bolt of cloth and 

 run out and sell it to somel)ody, or does he have a high-class 



