30 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



There are multitudes of mechanics busily engaged in creating 

 those things which you need — which you must have in order 

 to keep up with the times, and so, whilst you are in touch 

 with Mother Nature a little more closely than the rest of us, 

 the other thought is that the importance of your branch of 

 industry is that which can hardly be estimated, because of 

 the lines which run out from it to touch here and yon, and 

 no one is able to say just where the lines end. 



We welcome you because of the fact that you have to do 

 with the element of purity as an institution. Perhaps that is 

 one good reason why the preacher should welcome this body 

 to this city. 



I am engaged in an industry which is busy attempting 

 to discover those arts which shall produce the largest 

 amount of the milk of human kindness, and as I read at the 

 head of the program for today and tomorrow, that this milk 

 producers' day, I claim a share with you. If my art shall be 

 a little broader than yours, gentlemen, it is no. reason why 

 we shall not be fellows and brethren and companions, and 

 I remember that you have to do in your association with the 

 idea of purification, high standards, that that shall be gilt- 

 edged; that that shall be clean and wholesome and pure; that 

 that shall go into every creamery and into every kitchen; 

 that shall bring forth only that which is most palatable, most 

 nutritious and let me beg you to remember that there is no 

 unrelated business in all this world of ours. If you, as a body 

 of gentlemen, shall be able, by your efforts to life the stand- 

 ard in your life, you have succeeded in helping all others in 

 every other department of industry in doing the same, and 

 we shall come, more and more, to work together against that 

 line of adulteration which is a sham.e, a disgrace and a menace 

 physically, as well as morally, to our people. 



Gentlemen, we welcome to our city, a body of men who 

 have to do with clean measures, with healthful nourishment, 

 with high standards of purity. Then we believe in the educa- 

 tional process. You will go down the street and look upon 

 the new school waiting for its tenants; you will discover that 

 this people is given to educational thought and we desire to 

 welcome you because of the fact that you are an educational 

 bodv. or ought to be. You know the man went to a store to 



