ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



03 



ADDRESS. 



By Chas. Y. Knight, Secretary of the National Dairy Union. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



I was not expecting to be called upon quite so quickly. I told our 

 president I wanted a little time to collect my thoughts. I have been 

 devoting my time lately to collecting money and expect to go on tonight. 

 I generally want to know whose here, before I know what I am going to 

 say. There are times, as I know by experience, when the people in the 

 audience and thos,e on the platform have different views, and it is often 

 necessary for us to " cut the cloth accordingly." 



I feel pretty safe though here today, when I look around and see the 

 old body guard here. I see our friend, Mr. Stewart, one of the old war 

 horses of the legislature of the State, who has probably done more for 

 this institution at Urbana than any other member of the legislature. And 

 there is Mr. Long — Long in name and long in stature — such people as they 

 and Mr. Newman here make me feel in good company and I can say any- 

 thing. 



We hear it said and it is very true, that so long as an army is 

 fighting for a victory or fighting on the defensive, it holds together, but 

 when peace is in sight, that then is the time that you get dissensions in 

 the ranks. When in front and facing the enemy, the forces on the defen- 

 sive or on the aggressive side must keep together, and after the fight is 

 over they get into wrangles. 



The greatest work the dairymen of Illinois have done in legislative 

 matters is to prevent wrangles in our own ranks. It is an old trick of the 

 enemy to stir up strife within the ranks of an army or wranglings. 



The greatest difficulty we have had in keeping on our fight against 

 oleomargarine, has been to prevent dissensions taking hold in our own 

 ranks. We must present a united front in this matter to do any good at 



