FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION 89 



becomes necessary; and more than that, we want your active in- 

 terest. When matters of this kind come up before Congress, one 

 of the most effective ways to get results is to get it before the 

 Congressman by his constituents. If a congressman gets 

 a whole lot of letters and telegrams from his constituents, he is 

 going to give the matter pretty serious consideration, and it is 

 quite likely he will not take a stand, at least, against you. We 

 hope to have the State Dairymen's Association and all other as- 

 sociations in the dairy interests in the State of Illinois get to- 

 gether and back the National Dairy Union. We want to work 

 up an organization, so that if our Secretary calls on these differ- 

 ent organizations to send letters or telegrams to their congress- 

 men and senators in Washington, so that in case of a bill being 

 before Congress, we can get immediate action and a flood of let- 

 ters and telegrams that cannot fail to impress them. The fact 

 is the dairy interests are active and watching this proposition. 

 It is one of the hardest things the oleomargarine interests have 

 to contend with to get the oleomargarine legislation before Con- 

 gress, because the dairy interests have watched this, and it has 

 always been killed in committees by a flood of letters and tele- 

 grams that show Congress it will not do to bring this matter 

 up. That kind of help is worth more even than the funds. It 

 has been the smallest part of the Dairy Union's work to get 

 funds. The hardest part of the work is to get the interests be- 

 hind them to take active interest in the work and send in letters 

 and telegrams at the proper time to produce the effect. 



I want to ask the State Dairymen's Association and all the 

 other interests of the state to give this matter serious considera- 

 tion and try to get their members to agree to send in letters and 

 telegrams whenever they are called upon to do so. 



It does not appear that there will be any action taken on the 

 oleomargarine matters at this present session of Congress. I 

 understand that some Southern congressman has introduced a 

 bill to remove the color clause, but as near as we can find out 

 from the situation at Washington, there is no disposition on the 

 part of the present administration to take up the oleomargarine 

 matter, so it will probably not be taken up this winter. But it un- 

 doubtedly will in the very near future. 



