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dairyman's business and the dairyman himself has not had the 

 recognition that the volume and character of the business he 

 did was entitled to. The man who kept a few cows from which 

 he was getting sufficient revenue to pay all of the expenses of 

 the farm considered it a side issue ; he never mentioned it, he 

 was ashamed to tell it. He never attended a Dairy Convention 

 and the man who made a specialty of dairying was, in the esti- 

 mation of the public, "only a dairyman." The cattle man and 

 the horse man have been courted and catered to, while the finan- 

 cial and social world has given little recognition to the dairy- 

 man. The politician has cultivated the dispenser of whiskey 

 and beer, and at the same time utterly oblivious to the existence 

 of the man who deals in milk. Laws have been enacted for the 

 protection of dogs, while bills in the dairyman's interest have 

 been laid on the table; the manufacturers of machinery have 

 been protected by patents, organized trusts to govern prices. 

 They have traveled on passes and have been permitted to sit in 

 the councils of Railroad and Trust Magnates, while the dairy- 

 man has entered the markets that were open to him, unprotected 

 and without attempted organization on prices. He paid his own 

 fare, kept his own counsel, fought his own battles, and his high- 

 est ambition, a clear conscience and prominent seat in the coun- 

 cils of his own family. 



The bank teller cleans the counter, and asks the crowd to 

 stand aside when the tobacco raiser comes in once a year to 

 make a deposit, and with his face one radiant smile, says : "The 

 president would like to see you in the office for a little visit," 

 while the patient, honest dairyman who deposits his mite daily 

 waits his turn and is waited on by the Collection Clerk and does 

 his visiting with the janitor, all because he is "only a dairyman." 



The stockman who markets his product once a year, when 

 he goes into a mercantile establishment is waited on by the 

 proprietor and gets a discount on what he buys, while the dairy- 

 man who markets his product every day, transacts his business 

 with the cash boy and pays the regular price for what he gets. 



