96 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



This much for my own community. I do not know 

 where my future may be spent, I may have some notion 

 about it but if I happen to get up to the gate and the gate- 

 keeper of that gate said, *'Go over in that direction, I do 

 not know you, sir," and they send me over where they 

 have this fire and brimstone, and I come to Galesburg and 

 they say, ''Come in, put on a pair of asbestos hose;" I would 

 say, ''Come on in, fellows; it is the best fire and brimstone 

 I ever saw." (Laughter.) 



There are some Rotarians here that happen to know 

 how I became district governor, and I want to get that 

 clear in the minds of the rest of you. To do that I will 

 just tell you the story of how a nigger came to be made 

 the deacon of a Baptist church in my town, how he came 

 to be made the deacon in his church. This man was made 

 deacon in the church and Rastus was down at the store 

 where a crowd of people were gathered. A girl said, 

 "Hello, Rastus, I hear you was made a deacon in the church 

 last night." "Yes, ma'am, I sho' was." And another girl 

 said, "Rastus, is what I hear about you the truth?" "I 

 gues it is. What yo' heah?" "Why, I heard you was 

 made a deacon." "I sho' was." Finally, the oldest man 

 in the crowd said, "Rastus, I heard you was made a dea- 

 con in the church." "Yes, sah, I sho' was dat." And he 

 said, "Rastus, tell me, how did this happen?" And Rastus 

 said, "Yes, sah, I dis' tells you 'zackly how dat happen." 

 He said, "Dere is a low-down element in our chu'ch, dey 

 rise up and demand some representation, and I was de guy 

 dey picked." (Laughter.) 



I should like to say a good many things to you about 

 Egypt tonight. If there is anybody here that has never 

 been down in the heart of my beloved Egypt, travel 

 through it and see what we have got. Of course we have 

 Williamson County down there, but I say to you that the 

 Egyptian has raised himself and made himself equal to 

 the proposition; and the Williamson County of yesterday 

 is not the Williamson County of today, and in Herrin where 

 there has been blood shed, tonight, in my humble opinion, 

 there are more men bowed humbly in prayer meeting than 

 there is in any city of its size in my beloved state. 



