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you not decide the whole case upon the evidence, and charac- 

 terize the evidence produced by the other side in support of a 

 standard and a test fraudulent in its beginning, fraudulent in 

 its production, and fraudulent in itself, as one upon which they 

 cannot stand, upon which your righteous judgment will not 

 permit them to stand, as one which they shall take away with 

 themselves and go out of Court to the judgment, and to the fair 

 condemnation of every honest man, of every citizen who desires 

 to protect the innocent, the defenceless, and the poor children of 

 this city ? Gentlemen, will you approve the fraud of such testi- 

 mony as that of the defence, or will you condemn it ? Am I 

 using too strong language when I speak in harsh terms of this 

 sample of milk which you have had analyzed, and which the 

 learned counsel for the prisoner proposed to-day to withdraw? 

 He says, " Withdraw the samples that young Doremus brought 

 from the Mulford farm ! " It is too late to withdraw these. It 

 was on Friday only that we found out where they came from. 

 We had questioned the source ; we had admired the research 

 of this professor's family, and on Friday w r e found out where 

 they had been on the preceding Monday. We had the sample 

 back in Court on this last Wednesday and demonstrated to you 

 that it was unsound milk, that it was rotten, that it was not milk 

 at all. They cannot withdraw it, it is the best thing for justice 

 which they could have done. They have prepared for months 

 to try this case. The learned counsel for the prisoner is ex- 

 hausted with the research he has made, and he has been compli- 

 mented by the Court on the success which you have witnessed : 

 u His ingenuity and learning in complicating questions." They 

 have done their best, and it is the same thing we have had 

 before. If that is a fair average sample, if that is the best evi- 

 dence they can produce, if it is presented to you as a fair, aver- 

 age sample of milk, and you know it is not milk at all, that it is 

 rotten, disgusting stuff, then I say such is their case. You must 

 remember that this same Mulford herd of cows were fed on oat 

 straw, and yet every milker in the Mulford herd mind you, 

 " the Doremus cows " are not "milkers" but "strippers" every 

 milker in the Mulford herd gave milk above the standard. Yes, 



