148 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



I have ever enjoyed at a meeting in the State of IlHnois, in my 

 opinion, and yet the personnel of the men on this program, many 

 of them have not been changed, but there is a* time in the tide of 

 affairs, etc., and if that is true with men individually, it is cer- 

 tainly true with this organization represented here. 



Mr. Aitken's reference to the Patron Saint of the State of 

 Wisconsin brings to my mind this fact, that it is a sacrilege to 

 mention the State of Wisconsin and the wonderful things they 

 have accomplished without every time giving credit to the man 

 who is directly responsible for the development of that state and 

 of this state and others, and I believe in strewing some flowers 

 in the pathway of men while they live and not save them all un^ 

 til they have passed beyond the reach of an expression that we 

 might give them of the appreciation we have of their wonderful 

 work. 



It seems to me that from the time of the appointment of 

 Moses as a leader to take the children of Israel out of the land 

 of bondage, there has never been a particular period that men 

 have not been raised up to occupy prominent positions to take 

 the lead in any great movement that was for the benefit of man- 

 kind, — whether it was in peace or in war. For centuries there 

 was a battle between brain and heart and heart won, and it was 

 back of the great hearts of the great men of those centuries and 

 of the past century that so many reforms have been brought 

 about. It was back of the heart of the philanthropist of the city 

 of Chicago that caused them to contribute to those who were 

 left after the disaster that was so terrible that occurred in the 

 Chicago river when the Eastland w^as sunk. It is back of the 

 heart of the people of tliis great nation that makes them respond 

 so quickly and so generously to the call from such catastrophes 

 as the Galveston flood and the San Francisco earthquake and 

 fire. So I say that heart won over brains, and it seems to me that 

 in the development of this country men are still being raised to 

 take the lead and I am not unmindful that in our organization 

 we have had some wonderful assistance. We have not done this all 

 ourselves. The assistance that we have had may possibly not 

 have been prominent at all of our meetings in the working out 

 of the problems that we have had to solve, but we have had it 



