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Association, not simply because you represent the manufacture of pure 

 dairy products, but because you represent the manufacture of that higher 

 product, pure public opinion. I am glad also to be in Galesburg. As I 

 rode about your beautiful city and had a, delightful afternoon with some of 

 your choice citizens, I was reminded of a story. It is fifteen years old, 

 because I told it fifteen years ago, but it is so applicable that I will use it 

 once more. 



A school teacher was endeavoring to impress on the minds of the 

 children the greatness of the Creator. He said: "Children, God made the 

 heavens and the stars and the forests. He made the mountain and the 

 hills. And children God made me and he made a daisy." And I want to 

 say to you God made Galesburg and he made a daisy. 



I have been asked to speak tonight on the war with Spain, but before 

 doing so I want to say to you that I feel perfectly at home in a dairymen's 

 convention. That is a part of my history my friends don't know about. 

 The first money I earned in my life was driving cows to pasture, and the 

 first expenses that I ever made was the then country boy's highest ambi- 

 tion, a pair of low heeled, stub-toed, calf-skin boots. Before getting down 

 to the war, just to show you all I am not one of those ignorant city chaps 

 who imagines that a milk shake comes from a cow with the ague, I will give 

 you a piece to the memory of our old brindle cow. 



OUR OLD BRINDLED COW. 



Down in the south meadow, 

 In the bend of Plumb Creek, 

 With a white cloud for shadow, 

 All shining and sleek. 



Mid the short grass and clover, 

 I can still see her now; 

 With horn crumpled over, 

 Our old brindled cow. 



