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to-day can be bought for $75. In Ohio and Indiana the 

 same course is being followed, and, gentlemen, the 

 same course is right here in Illinois, and Henry 

 county, too. Your land to-day is not worth as much 

 for agricultural purposes as it was when you com- 

 menced on it, not by a long shot. The statistics show 

 that. Now, if you continue on your constant grab, 

 grab, shipping your grain to market without giving 

 your soil any hel^, history will repeat itself. What has 

 overtaken them in New England and Pennsylvania and 

 parts of Ohio is bound to come here to Illinois. In that 

 damp little country of Holland, where I traveled two or 

 three years ago, I saw land being dug up from the sea 

 and the water kept out by immense dykes. Thousands 

 of windmills keep them from being submerged, and I 

 thought of the immense amount of labor and money 

 that has kept them where they are. It has cost heaps 

 of money, and yet when I saw thousands of handsome 

 dairy cattle that were hardly above the water, and I 

 learned that, in three hundred years, that country 

 had not exported a dollar's worth of product, except 

 butter and cheese, and yet, to-day, she has more wealth 

 per capita than the people of any country in Europe, it 

 set me to thinking. These are facts. I also understand 

 that in a country that was originally poor and cold, 

 in Iceland, the land is not by nature what the land is 

 here, but they got into the dairy business many years 

 ago, and they have built up their country. You will 

 find by the statistics, that in the dairy districts land is 

 getting richer every day, while ours is growing poorer. 

 The question comes up, What kind of legacy are we 

 going to leave to our children ? Shall not we change ? 

 Shall we not join hands with these dairy people who 

 come amongst us to keep off this threatened mis- 



