ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. L9J 



we do it now or in the future is simply a matter of time. We are 

 up against a proposition. They are determined to make an 

 effort to secure the repeal of this law and their success or failure 

 will depend upon the amount of backing the National Dairy 

 Union gets at the hands of you dairymen. The whole thing lies 

 with you ; we are instruments in the hands of the people. If you 

 furnish the backing as well as you have been doing we feel we 

 are justified in giving to you this assurance, that it will be years 

 before they can do anything; but if we cannot have your finan- 

 cial and moral support, because one is worthless without the 

 other, we cannot do anything. If we have that we are perfectly 

 easy and feel that we can combat anything they may undertake. 



I shall not undertake to tell you the amount of money that 

 has been expended in this work, but it has run into the thousands 

 and tens of thousands. This money has been furnished by the 

 dairymen. I am glad to say that of late we have received liberal 

 contributions from Illinois, but at the same time I must say that 

 the great bulk of our support today is coming from Iowa and 

 Minnesota, but do not think it is in a spirit of fault-finding I am 

 telling you this. It is due to the fact that in those two states 

 we have organizations. I don't know how many in the state of 

 Minnesota, but in Iowa we are well organized, and so far as 

 dairying in our state is concerned, the grandest and best work 

 we have ever undertaken is in these" organizations. They are 

 doing more for Iowa than anything we have undertaken. 



You cannot get the average farmers of the country to 

 attend the state dairy association meetings, If you expect that 

 in Illinois you will find you are going to be mistaken, just as 

 we have been in Iowa, and we have to take the doctrine of good 

 dairying to the farmers. In the first place, a man who will 

 come clear across the state to attend a dairy convention does 

 not need the instructions. It is the man on the farm we have 

 to go after, and you can only get after him by going straight 

 to his home. But I am getting away from my subject, and I am 

 going to quit that. 



