OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 31 
Hoarv’s Dairyman has grown from a small four page paper 
to a thirty or forty page weekly edition, and has an international 
circulation of over seventy-five thousand. 
In 1888 he was elected Governor of Wisconsin. In this posi- 
tion he succeeded in establishing a law to create a Dairy and Food 
Commission. He championed honest food products, and thus 
came into violent conflict with the then fraudulent traffic in oleo- 
margarine, compelling it to sell on its own merits, and not under 
the name of butter. He sponsored the Bennett Law, requiring 
the teaching of English in all schools in Wisconsin. So violent 
an opposition was raised by the proponents of the German paro- 
chial school that he was defeated for re-election on this issue in 
1890. Governor Hoarp’s concept of American Citizenship was 
perhaps ahead of its time, but it contained the elements for 
which we have so recently fought. He was a delightful com- 
panion, and welcome to the friendship of the poorest workman, 
or the wealthiest capitalist; appreciated by both the ignorant and 
the most highly educated. He was intensely practical, and yet 
a voracious student of the rural sciences. He has been compared 
for his humor, his political honesty, his rugged character, and 
his many sided personality to ABRAHAM LiNcoLN (75). His 
recognition of the specialized dairy cow as the foster mother of 
the human race made him, if not the originator, at least the 
world’s greatest evangel, of the doctrine of specialized dairying. 
His favorite expression was “Treat the cow as a mother, and her 
calf as a baby.” In 1915 Governor Hoarp was officially honored 
by the state government as Wisconsin’s most distinguished citizen. 
