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as a consumer, bogus butter, bogus cheese, bogus 

 money, in fact any thing bogus, should be an enemy of 

 mankind. Talk as we may, hope as we may, the bare 

 fact that the manufacture of the stuff has increased 

 from twenty-one million pounds in 1887 to forty-four 

 million in 1891 stares us in the face. Our national law 

 is all right as far as it goes, but it does not go far 

 enough. It should be made to protect the consumer 

 who sits at the table of the hotel or boarding house. 

 It should be supplemented by State legislation. 



There seems to be a kind of paralysis among our 

 dairy farmers. They annually and semi-annually 

 resolve, but do little else. Our representative from 

 Boone, an honored director of this Association, intro- 

 duced a bill last winter at Springfield correct in prin- 

 ciple. It required the manufacturer of ox butter to 

 have a color of their own, but he got but little support 

 from those most interested. 



Brethren, why not try a new track. When you go 

 to your caucuses this summer get a pledge from your 

 candidate upon this question. Don't support a man, 

 be he ever so strong a Republican, Democrat or Pro- 

 hibitionist, unless he is willing to take a stand on the 

 right side of this question so vital to your prosperity 

 and health. 



Possibly in the beginning of this contest we asked 

 too much, a law to forbid the manufacture of butterine. 

 This raised the cry, and very naturally, of class legis- 

 lation. 



If Mr. Armour or Swift has discovered a substitute 

 for butter, or if Mr. Burrell has secured a patent for 

 making a substitute for cheese, these parties should, if 

 their product is healthy, be protected in their manu- 

 facture. 



