ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN S ASSOCIATION. 3 T. 



and National Laws, and also that dairymen and friends of the 

 dairy and agriculturists have no use for or sympathy with those 

 who truckle to the money power of the butterine gang\ and who 

 would destroy the dairy interests to advance their personal end. 

 With $.480 license to sell instead of forty-eight dollars per annum, 

 the butterine gang would start the four thousand retailers in 

 Chicago to supply the million consumers, and the same thing 

 done in other prominent distributing points, the dairy interest of 

 the entire nation would be annihilated. The slaughter house 

 dairies of Chicago and the northwest can turn out three hun- 

 dred million pounds of the truck, and when the east, without 

 cotton and the cottonseed oil, etc., are counted in, where shall 

 be the dairy? 



Yours, with wishes of a successful meeting, 



R. M. Littler." 



The situation to-day is about this: There is a national law 

 passed by congress, in the exercise of their prerogative, and the 

 congressmen of the United States have simply done all they 

 could do. There is only one thing that it is in their power to 

 do and that is the power of taxation. , The power of regulation 

 is one that remains with the state, ^and to the state, we must 

 turn for whatever relief we find necessary. National legisla- 

 tion, as far as it has gone, and as far as it can go, is very good, 

 but without state legislation, it leaves the door of fraud still 

 wide open. 



The butterine men have addressed to every congressman and 

 senator of the United states, a brief upon the oleomargarine 

 question. This brief is quite voluminous and in it are contained 

 some most subtle reasonings, some of those candid statements 

 which by right pertain to an honest man, but which the rogue 

 can also use to advantage when cloaked with a mantle of hy- 

 pocrisy. The apparent object is to get a revision of the law as 

 it now stands. If that revision of the law is entered upon by 

 this next congress, it is very hard to tell where it may end. 



One of the phases of this contest for which we have cause of 

 congratulation is the position occupied at the present time by 



