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and appreciate it, and in the development of the business in the 

 State of lUinois, the man that I would point to tonight as hav- 

 ing been a leader and as having done more than any other single 

 man in the development of this business, in the harmonizing of 

 the interests of an organization composed of the manufacturers, of 

 the best raw material that was produced upon the farms of this 

 great commonwealth, a man who had harmonized these interests, 

 and brought rivals and competition together upon common terms 

 because they had a common interest, a man that I have told al- 

 most as often as I have my wife that I loved him, and I am here 

 tonight to say to him and bring to him a message of love from 

 every dairyman and from every creamery buttermaker in the 

 State of Illinois, and I believe that it is fitting, and so do all of 

 these other dairymen and creamery buttermakers, that a sub- 

 stantial expression should be made of this high appreciation for 

 the very valuable service that has been rendered to us in the de- 

 v^elopment of our business by a man who, in the discharge of his 

 duty, has never faltered, has stood for the right and defended 

 those who were disposed to do right, who has been impartial in 

 the administration of the office in the position which he held, 

 and I take pleasure tonight in presenting to you MR. JOHN B. 

 NEWMAN, the Assistant State Dairy and Food Commissioner, 

 a testimonial from these people. 



This is not only given in view of the fact that valuable ser- 

 vice has been rendered to every man interested in this business 

 in this community; it is not for service that he has rendered be- 

 cause he has been fully compensated for that with the conscious- 

 ness that he has done his duty and done right, and all that I can 

 say is that it is given to him tonight as a token of love. He 

 has inscribed upon the tablet of the memories of these people a 

 history that can never be blotted out; he occupies a place in the 

 hearts of the dairy interests of the State of Illinois that can 

 never be supplanted, and in view of that position which he oc- 

 cupies, we ask him to accept this reminder of that love and af- 

 fection that is felt by every one of them for him, and I want to 

 say in presenting to him this diamond ring that when he looks 

 at it the flash of that diamond shall be a representation to him 

 of the ray of sunshine that he has sent into the dooryards of the 

 dairymen of this great state. 



