106 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



calling for the passage of a tax on renovated butter. They are going to 

 call up this resolution in the various conventions and cite that as authority 

 for the claim that the dairymen favor this legislature. That minute that 

 is put on that bill every renovated butter man is going to work against 

 that bill, for the bill must be voted on and must stand and fall with its 

 amendment. 



For instance, we have a bill before the house, a vote comes up, the 

 oleomargarine people are all in favor of an amendment putting this 

 restriction on renovated butter. Enough have been brought in line who 

 favor the same thing, the amendment is put on. Then on the other hand, 

 here comes your renovated butter contingent with their resolution and 

 petitions from the farmers who are producing that butter and whose butter 

 is to be depreciated in this business and object to such legislation and 

 demanding that no bill with such provisions shall be passed. The farm- 

 ers who are friends of the renovated people vote against the passage of 

 that bill, the oleomargarine people will vote against it and they together 

 take away our support and we have not enough left to pass our bill, and 

 we are in that way putting ourselves in position where we will have two 

 enemies to fight if we persist in doing what has been started along this 

 line. I can't see why the dairymen and the buttermakeis and every one 

 in connection with this business should not be satisfied to have this pro- 

 duct renovated butter sold for what it is. I don't see why they should 

 want to stigmatize it or characterize it or want to put on restrictions 

 making*it burdensome and keep people from handling it. It somes in the 

 market and is sold today. The people who are making it are farmers, all 

 keep cows and they work with us. 



I simply say this because it is the thing today that is looming up. 

 If it keeps growing, the tendency on the part of the dairymen or the 

 creamery men and buttermakers to go out of their way and pick a fight 

 with another interest, it is going to kill the whole movement and put us 

 where we cannot do another thing, because we will have two men to 

 fight instead of one. 



What I say today, I say at the risk of being quoted as defending 

 renovated butter. I am doing no such thing. I am coming here to warn 

 you against drawing us into a fight with another interest. I remember 

 very well when I was a boy that a friend of mine who was a pugilistic 



