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I want to say to you gentlemen just remember that little 

 message from the men of the North — too many of you fellows are 

 spending your lives growing that cow that is in the third class. 

 She should be got rid of. You are keeping too many cows that 

 came too near to being born steers. (Laughter.) 



I promised I wouldn't talk over ten minutes ; I have two 

 minutes more. As I said, I am President of the National Dairy 

 Union. It was organized especially to protect the good cow and 

 the product of that cow from vicious and unfair competition of 

 the socalled substitute, oleomargarine. I just want to drop 

 this little word to you before I leave. In our work in Washing- 

 ton we found that the Congressmen and Senators from the South 

 are usually against us and with the oleomargarine fellows. I 

 just want to say this to you : I want to ask why your represen- 

 tatives are against the dairy cow and honest dairy products ; why 

 your men say that the man who manufactures oleomargarine is Oleomargar- 

 just as good and has just as good a right as we have. Let me '^^ o Menace 

 ask you why it is that a man colors butter? To make it look dairying 

 exactly like what it is. Why does a man color oleomargarine? 

 To make it look like what it is not, and so that he may sell it at 

 the price of butter, which it is not. You are getting swindled both 

 ways. I want you to think about that, and stand with us of the North 

 to protect the cow. Probably you have several million dollars that 

 you want to buy oleomargarine with. Instead of doing that, go into 

 the dairy business ; feed out your own cottonseed meal, and your 

 velvet bean and other products that you grow; return the ferti- 

 lizer to your farm, which will enable you to have better farms 

 as the years go by. You will find that that good old cow will do 

 more for you than any other animal that ever walked on four 

 legs. I thank you. (Applause.) 



