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than beef-growing and milk-raising. I make that assertion boldly, 

 and am ready to sustain it with fact and figures. 



In this fight before our National legislature, in this fight 

 before the consumers of the country, the grand army of the 

 dairymen stands like a corps without a leader. . They are scat- 

 tered through the four corners of the earth and in every direc- 

 tion and in every way powerful if they could become united. If 

 united, there is no element, no power, that could resist their 

 influence, but as it is, they are so enstranged from one another 

 that the individual efforts put forth amount to almost naught. 

 Thorough organization is absolutely necessary and it is for your 

 consideration, with that object in view, that these remarks on the 

 oleomargarine question are presented. 



The situation is now one ot constant fight ; it is a systematic 

 and continuous fight to be carried on and kept up to the end. It 

 is only by adopting strictly business measures the question can 

 be fairly met. This meeting together at times opportune and 

 inopportune, discussing the question for a few moments, resolv- 

 ing that we will do something and when we leave the cloor it is 

 entirely forgotten and laid upon the table until another year comes 

 around, will never solve the oleomargarine question. Certainly 

 not as long as there are on the oleomargarine side none but men 

 who pride themselves in being calculators, figurers, busines men. 



On the one side it is men without organization, who could, if 

 they get together, accomplish much, but have not seen fit to do 

 so up to this time. Organizations have been attempted, but they 

 have no valuable results to show on account of the indifference 

 manifested and the small numbers enrolled. It has almost been 

 an impossibility with the work heretofore done by this associa- 

 tion in Illinois to bring any influence to bear upon our state 

 legislature. On the other side there are a dozen, yea, a half 

 dozen men, powerful in political and monetary influences, who 

 calmly and deliberately stand by their million-dollar bags and 

 fire broadside volleys into the ranks of the dairy people. . This 

 is exactly the position in which the dairymen of the United States 



