14 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



There is no longer found the industry in the political and 

 social world for either the son or daughter of the nation. A 

 man or woman who does not throw aside the selfish life, that of 

 living for herself or himself alone, who does not live for the 

 greater good and benefit of the people at large in all that pertains 

 to a wholesome existence is not worthy of the patriarchs of our 

 country. I don't believe, in the days of the Revolution or of 

 the Civil War, that these were years of greater service and con- 

 sequence than those that present themselves to us today. Our 

 young nation has pushed ahead with such strides that our peo- 

 ple are apt to become satisfied. Our greatest need rests in the 

 one word "honesty." It is no longer the Republican or the 

 Democrat, the Catholic or the Protestant, the black or the white, 

 it is the honest man against the dishonest man, fair methods 

 agninst unfair methods, frauds against justice in competition. 

 It is arousing the conscience of our whole people to such an 

 extent that politics may be purged of its corruption and society 

 of its impurities, that the least among them may be protected. 

 It is the duty of those, who, through experience or fortunes have 

 learned a better way to impart that better way to those who need 

 the knowledge, and it was with such thoughts that I strove to 

 produce clean and pure milk. 



Constantly, for years, before me were the unkept dairy cows 

 covered with filth. Out of the large number a great percentage 

 are merely boarders; then the picture of the average cow stable 

 with dirty milk utensils, the ignorance in feeding the dairy cow 

 and sometimes the harsh treatment they receive at the hands of 

 the help, the uninviting condition of the surroundings, the badly 

 washed utensils and careless handling of the same, and lastly 

 the importance of a proper price. 



Now as to the matter of the City Milk Supply. I am going 

 co give you, after six years of dairy farming — first let me say 

 that for the first time in those six years I do not own a dairy 

 cow. My barns burned down and I am taking three or four 

 months while I am rebuilding, and I can look back on these six 



