■\2 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



If you wish any assistance in any of our departments, I will 

 be at the city hall mornings and can be easily reached. 



I thank you for the honor of being with you and having the 

 pleasure of addressing you and giving you the freedom of our 

 city, both day and night. Our homes and our factories are open 

 to you and we welcome you. May you go on with a good spirit, 

 and we wish you a hearty welcome from our citizens. 



RESPONSE TO ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



By Mr. E. Sudendorf, Clinton, III. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : — 



Quite a few of you people here are known to me, and a 

 great many are not. If any one expects a speechmaker to 

 answer His Honor's warm welcome, he will be mistaken and dis- 

 appointed. I suppose I could learn to make a speech, but I have 

 looked over your programs and see so many good things, that 

 for me to make an elaborate response, you would not have time 

 to hear all the good things coming. 



Therefore I will merely cut this short, the way I always do, 

 and on behalf of the Dairymen's Association of Illinois thank 

 His Honor for his cordial welcome. I hope the boys will take 

 advantage of his kind invitations to visit the penitentiary and the 

 brewery, but don't stay at the brewery too long. 



Again I thank your Honor on behalf of the Association. 



By the President: — The necessary president's address is 

 next in order I suppose. I have a few remarks here pertenant 

 to the business of the Association. 



