1^^ Illinois State Dairymen's Association. 



all we can to put a stop to that sort of thing. I was raised in 

 the dairy business, my heart is with the dairymen and it hurts 

 me to see a dairyman come in and admit that he did those things, 

 did them for fraud, that they were not all accidents. I have 

 been very lenient in my recommendations as to the dealing with 

 those men but I have given them to understand invariably that 

 the time is coming and very soon when those acts can only be 

 settled in the office of the Justice of the Peace with hard cold 

 money. 



I have every sympathy in the world with the man who milks 

 the cow and trys to get all he can out of her. I was milking 

 cows myself before I was big enough to carry the mess away 

 from the cow when I got through milking and I know exactly 

 what it means, and I tell you gentlemen that as long as I am 

 public officer I will not tolerate any of those things any longer 

 than I have to, and the man that practices those must be pretty 

 careful that he does not cross swords with our office too hard, 

 because he will get hurt. 



. There are some of the things, gentlemen, which we have 

 been trying to do in the way of helping you who are trying to do 

 an honest business w^ith the honest cow. They are only part of 

 them. Perhaps the greatest progress, aside from weeding out 

 the poisonous preservatives as a protection to our little ones, who 

 are depending on the greatest food of all, pure milk, for a living, 

 our greatest progress has been in trying to do away with a com- 

 petitor of yours, viz., the product that masquerades under the 

 name of butter but which is not butter, — oleomargarine. 



It is my business in the office to have charge of all the work 

 done in the department relating to dairy products or any other 

 class of foods, and I know whereof I speak when I say that all 

 of the other elements of fraud with which we come in contact 

 in the office will not amount to more than 10 per cent of the fraud 

 taking place in the sale of oleomargarine as and for butter in the 

 state of Illinois alone. Ten years ago there was enacted in this 

 state a law known as the Oleomargarine law, a law preventing 

 the coloring of oleomargarine so as to resemble yellow, June 

 butter. Political conditions at that time were such that the 

 manufacturers of the fraud were stronger politically than they 

 are now. Times have changed and are still changing and are 



