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eries than anything in the country. We do so because they have 

 made us more money than any other industry. I want to say to 

 you, you do not appreciate this yet. I am not paid for this. I 

 believe in it, but I want to say you do not half appreciate yet 

 what that interest means to you. You will do so some day. 

 Like myself, you will take the stand, that aside from our 

 churches, our schools and our homes, it is the best institution we 

 have. Judging from the character of the butter, it is not just 

 like what the woman sent her boy to the grocery to get, because 

 its better. He went to the grocery and had been told to tell the 

 grocer his mother wanted the same kind she got a week ago. 

 The boy goes a little further and said : "Mother wants the same 

 butter she got a week ago. Got a whole lot of relatives and she 

 wants to get rid of them." 



To start with, I am commanded by the management to shoot 

 any man who talks longer than two hours and a half. We have 

 ten speakers on the program. I don't know but what I might tell 

 another story. It has no particular application. I read it the 

 other day and will tell you about it. It is a political story. It is 

 the old negro's deductions of the political parties. He compared 

 them to the hickory nut. The hull is green and no one wants it ; 

 it is just kind of in the way, that's the Prohibition party. I don't 

 suppose I ought to tell this in Clinton. Then there's the shell, 

 that's dead, that represents the Democrats. When we get inside 

 we find the meat, the sum and substance, that's the Republicans, 

 but nine times out of ten its rotten. (Applause). 



The first man that I wish to introduce to you this evening 

 is a character in the dairy world. I say in the dairy world, al- 

 though I am not old; I am gray headed and bald which comes 

 from family troubles. Ever since I saw this man he has been a 

 light and entertainer in the dairy world. He has attended con- 

 ventions as long as I can remember. With only two exceptions 

 in the last 30 years he has been at these conventions, and that is 

 as long as I dare tell about. We feel in the dairy world that a 

 convention is not complete without Jules Lumbard, and he will 

 sing to us. 



Song, Encored. 



