FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 121 



and the President of this Association, that I was enabled to 

 put it over. I had the hearty co-operation of your entire 

 body, and I want to express my appreciation for it. 



Just to show you that it is worth while I want to say 

 that I made the same sort of an effort in Indiana. We 

 didn't get by the ftrst year and last year we got busy again. 

 The law was passed in Indiana. It was signed by the 

 house, the speaker of the house, and it was signed by the 

 president of the senate, and it was sent on over to the gov- 

 ernor, and it disappeared. Now, you can't make me be-, 

 lieve that any of the Germans stole it, but I do think I 

 know where it went. It disappeared. Why did they put 

 forth such extraordinary efforts if it wasn't a good law? 

 They go on and advertise the products just as they used to 

 in Illinois. I know they evade the law sometimes, but that 

 is true of all laws. 



Out in Idaho — I was out there last winter, and this 

 law was enacted in Idaho. It passed the house by a good 

 big majority. It went through the senate with only one 

 vote to spare. What happened? They got busy overnight, 

 worked in the dark, and next day it failed of passage be- 

 cause it was reconsidered, and failed of passage because 

 they put the matter up to the senator from Idaho at Wash- 

 ington, and advised him that he should do something to 

 see that that act didn't become a law in Idaho, and they 

 telegraphed him from Washington, and he got busy for the 

 reason that he had a loan-shark bill he wanted to get 

 through. He called them down in Idaho on the assump- 

 tion that it was going to injure the industry of Idaho, be- 

 cause it will make enemies of the people in the south who 

 were selling cottonseed oil for the manufacture of oleo. 



What are the real facts in the matter? There are 

 about three hundred million pounds of various oils used in 

 the manufacture of oleo a year. Only about ten per cent 

 of that at this time is used in the manufacture of oleo. 

 Most of the oil used at this time is cocoanut oil. I have 

 been in the south and have been warning these fellows 

 against that sort of propaganda. I was in Tennessee week 

 before last. You have got to create a sentiment for these 



