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tious personages these corporations these entities that have 

 no life except what we give them through our Legislature, 

 the Legislature that creates them can regulate their whole life 

 and actions after it has created them. If that is not the case, 

 it is undoubtedly true that the creature is greater than the 

 creator. 



What was the situation that developed last year with ref- 

 erence to the meat traffic? It appeared that the only remedy 

 that the people had against the exactions of the Meat Trust 

 was to deny themselves the meat that they needed in their 

 daily life. Isn't it a pitiable commentary on the state of our 

 law that the only remedy that we have against these corpora- 

 tions which we have created, is to stop using the articles which 

 they purvey, the necessities of life? In the case of milk, it is 

 impossible for us to stop. Children must have milk or they will 

 die. There are only two parties in the final analysis to this 

 question. One is your trust, your rapacious corporation, try- 

 ing to squeeze out of the public every cent that they can get 

 and the other is the child of the tenement, with its poor, weak, 

 tired little face, becoming weaker and more tired every day. I 

 have seen them in the summer time in the tenements. I have 

 seen my own child when he was sick in the summer, and I would 

 have gone crazy if I could not have given my child the milk 

 that I knew he needed. 



Now, when you come here and make it a purpose of your 

 meeting to compel all milk to be bottled in the city and pas- 

 teurized, and put up the price to nine or ten cents a quart, you 

 have these children in the tenements suffering for milk. That 

 is a situation that must be remedied by the Legislature, and I 

 say, before you gentlemen and ladies this evening, that if the 

 representatives of the people do not remedy the situation that 

 exists with reference to the selling and purveying of the neces- 

 sities of life, so as to stop these middlemen corporations from 

 squeezing the people, the people will take the thing into their 

 own hands, and they will act in no uncertain way. 



THE CHAIRMAN: It gives me pleasure to introduce to you Dr. 

 Charles E. North, Chairman of the Committee on Sanitation, Bac- 

 teriology and Public Health of the New York Milk Committee. 

 Dr. North will speak to you on "The Present System of Milk Con- 

 trol." 



