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all. If we have any dirty linen to wash, it must not be washed in public. 

 We must not get into wrangles among ourselves, until we are surely out 

 of the woods as against our common enemy. I say this because there is 

 a tendency on the part of some of our friends, or supposed friends, to 

 sow the seed of discord in an assiduous way in the rank and file, who are 

 not thoroughly acquainted with the methods of legislature. 



The first step toward diversity in our rank, is to cast suspicion on the 

 people in the lead, and to raise new isues and attempt to take on too much. 

 For instance, we had recently in some of our leading organizations, reso- 

 lutions presented and ideas brought up which all tend to split the ranks 

 of the dairymen in two parts. 



In this matter I want to be very plain; I want to talk frankly to you, 

 for the time is coming, or, rather, has come, to be frank and bring up this 

 matter in a way that it has not been brought up before. 



The product of butter in the United States is divided into two classes, 

 creamery and dairy butter. The output last year amounted to about 

 1,470,000,000 pounds. Of that about 470,000,000 pounds was creamery 

 butter and about 1,000,000,000, or ten hundred million pounds was dairy 

 butter, of the 4,500,000 farm'ers interested in the production of butter. 

 The disposition today among our people is to discriminate entirely in 

 favor of creamery butter. 



We believe, and I believe and have done all I could in the direction 

 of having everything sold for what it is, and that is the way it is believed 

 in the legislature, and we have done it to a certain extent and it is all 

 right. I am in thorough accord with you that renovated butter, or worked 

 over butter, or process butter, or whatever you want to call it, should be 

 sold for just what it is. I would have no one defrauded in thinking they, 

 are getting fancy butter, when they are getting worked over butter. We 

 might go to the extent of making every manufacturer of process butter 

 to put their worked over butter in original packages ,so that the public 

 might know just exactly what it is getting, just the same as when they 

 are getting oleomargarine. But, there has been a tendency here of late 

 to prosecute what is known as renovated butter or process butter; there 

 has been a disposition on the part of some people who ought to know 

 better to say when we are fighting our natural enemy, that we must turn 

 aside and take on more trouble. There have been resolutions introduced, 



