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tui'bing Imsiness. They say the yeast in the bread raises 

 the dough and Dillon in office raises the devil with busines ; 

 but from the consumer and producers' standpoint it is about 

 time somebody raised something, it is about time the con- 

 sumer and producer had a tribunal to go to and improve 

 this business from the standpoint of economy, efficiency and 

 lionesty. 



Now they ask what will become of these middle men, 

 these commission men? "Are you going to put them out of 

 business?" Why, no; we did not put them in business, we 

 do not expect to put them out of business. Their 's is not 

 such a great business that one need worry much about it 

 anyhow. 



The truth of the matter is that the dealers in Chicago 

 who have bought constantly at auction for 25 years have 

 always had goods just the kind they wanted for their cus- 

 tomers, have worked on a small margin, have never been 

 short at one time or over-stocked at another, have made 

 more money than the commission men who have served the 

 farmers and producers, a great deal more money. It has 

 been to their advantage, but there were only a few compar- 

 atively speaking in the business. It Avas a business that was 

 ♦not so easily gone into. 



Now these are some of the things that a Commission has 

 done in New York City and I have told you in the milk 

 industry what Ave hope to do. We hope to eliminate this 

 constant howl of tuberculosis in the milk and in the live- 

 stock ; we hate to hear that advertised ; if it is true, we don 't 

 want it here; Ave Avant to eliminate it if it is true. 



HoAV are you going to ask a farmer to constantly pro- 

 fiuce more milk, and you knoAV there are ncAV babies coming 

 doAvn to NcAv York every day, every hour, they must be fed 

 milk, it is the great food for them and our groAA^n up people 

 like it now, and in a short time beer Avill be eliminated from 

 our diet and then more of our people Avill want more and 

 better milk; (applause), and I hope to see a sanitary milk 

 station, a food store if you please, as clean and Avhite as 



