ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 183 



You all know something of the struggle that we have had to 

 secure even the position that we have attained. We did not secure 

 the law that we wanted, but we have something that is of great 

 value. At any rate we demonstrated the fact that the legisla- 

 tors, and even the governor did not feel at liberty to go con- 

 trary to the wishes of the people in the country. The senators 

 and representatives from Chicago were almost unanimous in 

 their opposition to any legislation which favored the farmers, 

 but the country representatives, when they learned the wishes of 

 their people, were willing to be guided thereby and all that had 

 to be done was to convince them what was expected of them. 



The law covers the manufacture and sale of the goods, but 

 gives us no state officer to enforce the law and no appropri- 

 ation to assist in its work. 



In Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio and in all of the 

 eastern states, they have been provided with a dairy commis- 

 sioner and a special appropriation has been made to meet all 

 the expenses in the enforcement of the law. But we are deter- 

 mined to go on and to get the whole benefit of the little legisla- 

 tion we now have. We shall have to go before the next Legis- 

 lature and ask for an amendment to the law that will provide 

 for a dairy commissioner, and an appropriation to carry out the 

 work. 



You will realize that this will not be easy to do when you 

 understand that there have been thirty million pounds of this 

 product made in Chicago in one year. We have raised consid- 

 erable by private subscription to help in this work. We have 

 had three men indicted in the criminal court. The constitu- 

 tionality of this new law was attacked in an argument before 

 three judges of the superior court. Our lawyers had everything 

 in their favor, having favorable decisions from the supreme 

 courts of ten or twelve different states. 



The case was argued before these three judges and we are 

 expecting the decision this week. Of course, we cannot tell how 

 it is coming out but we hope for the best. There has been no 

 adverse decision in any state upon this point, which is the main 

 one depended upon. 



