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ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Ladies and Gentlemen. 



I did not expect to be here this evening. My chief, Mr. 

 Jones was billed to speak to you, and I fully expected he would till 

 the engagement, but unexpectedly he was called away. He tel- 

 egraphed me yesterday to come and try to hll his place at Green- 

 ville. 



I enjoyed very much the address delivered by Judge Lind- 

 ley. We in Chicago think a great deal of Mr. Lindley. We 

 know that in every position that he has occupied, he was always 

 a leader. You people of Greenville and Bond County and in this 

 part of the state will some day see Judge Lindley in the Governor's 

 chair, but not for four years yet. We of Chicago are going r(j be 

 for him for treasurer of this state, and I am proud and pleased 

 to know him as my friend. He is an expert and a typical farmer ; 

 that makes him sound, as the farmers in this state and every 

 state in the Union are the foundation of this great Republic. 

 They produce the wisdom and they had the brains to guide this 

 great country to its present position. If it was not for the farm- 

 ers,-' the cities would not exist, and we are under great obligations 

 to the farmers. 



I am a farmer myself; I was raised on a farm before I lived 

 in Chicago. 



Last summer there was a great agitation about the milk 

 supply of Chicago, and the different organizations and newspapers 

 and especially the health department in which are some very wise 

 men, concluded that the adulteration of the milk supply of 

 Chicago was done by the farmer, and they blamed the Illinois 

 Food Commission for that adulteration. They said the IlHnois 

 Food Commission should see to it that the farmers dicl not adul- 

 terate the milk. Immediately they brought the Illinois Food 

 Commission into the breach, and an investigation of the samples 

 taken by the inspectors of the Illinois Food Commission of the 

 City and especially the Chicago places, and we found that out 

 of 245 samples taken in the country district, that 4 samples were 

 adulterated, and out of 108 samples taken in the city that 45 were 



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