144 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



such investigation as to your needs in matters of state legisla- 

 tion and will adopt such method of procedure as shall carry into 

 effect your purposes and your wishes in this regard. 



The result will be that before two years have passed the 

 main legal questions in which you are concerned and on which 

 you desire legislation will not only be drafted and considered by 

 your Officers and Directors but submitted to every farmers' 

 organization that they in turn may study these questions and 

 express their views thereon. It will also give them a chance 

 to go to their own local State Representatives and to those who 

 seek that office and say to them, "We have here certain things, 

 will you stand for them? Certain provisions for State Laws 

 that we favor and demand." The result will be that when you 

 again appear before the Legislature and ask for the passage of 

 such bills as shall help you to save your dairy herds and bar 

 the shipping of diseased domestic animals into this State and 

 otherwise promote the business in which you are engaged and 

 protect your interests. You will have to help you, in the support 

 of such law, the intelligent organized force of the farming com- 

 munity of the entire State. Such force in its reasonable demands 

 would be irresistible. 



The farming community as an organized body does not 

 know its strength. Such a bill as you would thus present would 

 have the support of this organization and of all kindred organ- 

 izations back of it and co-operating with it. There could be no 

 opposition that could overcome the demand for a reasonable 

 law, that comes from a body that represents the whole farming 

 community of this State in any one particular thing. The day of 

 individual effort is passed. Organization is essential. 



The power of organization among the farming community 

 is well presented by an association of Cook County, which I 

 have represented for a term of years. They are engaged in 

 marketing produce in the City of Chicago. Single handed and 

 alone they were helpless. 



Organized, they succeeded in their defense against certain 

 ordinances that had been illegally enforced against them. They had 

 extended the Randolph Street Market from two to five blocks. 



