ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 151 



The grand jury of Winnebago county is in session this week 

 and they are very anxious that I should be in attendance and as- 

 sist in prosecuting some of the violaters of the state law. There 

 are 14 government licenses in Rockford alone, and we hope to 

 make an example of one or more this week. 



I find, however, that Kane county leads them in this iniquity 

 as Aurora has 16 licenses, and our good people in Elgin only 

 have one, but I believe the hotels and restaurants there buy of 

 the wholesale dealers direct. 



My especial purpose in writing this is to ask you to give the 

 subject of amending and enforcing the law some prominence in 

 the meeting, and let our friends in central and southern Illinois 

 fully understand that the subject must not be lost sight of for 

 some time to come. We must have an amendment that will 

 give us an appropriation, and a dairy commissioner who can go 

 out with the authority of the state at his back. 



In order to secure this the dairymen must keep up the agita- 

 tion and give the senators and representatives to understand that 

 the work demanded of them is not yet done. 



Our only hope in securing this is through the country sen- 

 ators and representatives, the same as we did with the work last 

 spring. 



We are promised a decision here this week in the cases which 

 have been tied up so long, but we feel but little confidence in 

 their promises. 



Politics permeates every action here and while I do not believe 

 the judges will stoop to do a corrupt thing in rendering judgment, 

 they realize that they have some powerful friends in the butter- 

 ine interests whose influence may be felt in a renomination, and 

 that every week's delay is a great deal of money to those people. 



I trust that you will have a very successful meeting at Red 

 Bud. My experience teaches me that there are in no part of 

 the state more loyal or earnest dairymen than in central and 

 southern Illinois and I regret very deeply my inability to meet 

 with them at this time. 



Yours very truly, Geo.W. Linn. 



President Illinois Dairy Union. 



