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of making butter a^id cheese ougM to go down too. No 

 business was so sure; no risk; with but little capital 

 invested. 



L. C. Waed said that from the letter of Willard's it 

 appeared that -five cents and two cents were charged east. 

 Now if you need a lawyer do you employ a good one or a 

 shyster because he is cheap. He found it paid best to 

 employ first-class men in all professions. One Eastern 

 factory run upon the cheap plan paid twentj^-two cents per 

 hundred pounds ; this may do on paper,but it will not satisfy 

 patrons . If his patrons would furnish him forty thousand 

 pounds per day, he would pay them back six dollars per 

 month or seventy-two hundred dollars per year; he could 

 afford to do it upon so large an amount. Could build 

 sheds and run them by women, but could not pay the 

 patrons a living dividend by so doing. 



Judge Wilcox had always found that in any business 

 the shyster (charged the most for his services. It was an 

 important question and should be discussed fairly; if the 

 prices charged five years ago were fair then, they are nof 

 fair now; labar as well as real estate must come down; it 

 not it is not fair; as it now is. The question is, " What is 

 a fair price, etc." All men should have a fair compensa- 

 tion for their labor, but it should not reach extortion. 

 Every person who is engaged in any legitimate business 

 should make money, if they are good business men; but 

 if cheese can be made in the East for one and one-quarter 

 cents per pound, it can and ought to be done here. He did 

 not believe the highest price always brought the best labor. 

 He was in earnest in this matter, and wanted to bring it 

 fairly before the dairymen. If all dairymen would keep 

 their own accounts it would prove another thing; as it now 

 is, all is left to the factory man; he keeps your accounts, 

 and at stated periods pays you just what he sees fit, and 

 no more; the dairyman has no idea whether it is what 

 really belongs to him or not. 



