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opportunity were hers; that is more than could be said of a 

 large share of men who vote on the temperance question. 



Our farmers have been, and are, too shiftless for anything 

 about the saloon existing in the towns about us. 



If we farmers' wives and daughters had the right to vote we 

 wouldn't stand by so quietly and foot the largest share of the 

 bills that intemperance makes, besides suffering the effects of the 

 saloon in our homes — and not have one word to say as to 

 whether the saloon shall exist or not in these towns about us; 

 but that's the way our farmers do, and we think they ought to 

 be looking after their rights in that direction. 



But then it seems a little out of place talking about intem- 

 perance at such a time as this. The very name, Dairymen's 

 Association, is so suggestive of good rich milk and fresh butter, 

 that we can't help wishing that these people who drink beer 

 and whisky for the health would take instead a glass of good, 

 rich Jersey milk as they would a glass of beer ; more likely they 

 would get well and stay well. 



And if these men in the towns who spend their scarce nick- 

 els for beer, whisky, tobacco and billiards, would first supply 

 their families with what was needed of good milk and butter, it 

 would revolutionize the world. Only think of the prospects of 

 the dairy business ! 



If the laboring classes in our large cities did not spend so 

 much of their earnings in the saloon oleomargarine would never 

 have been invented. If a large share of the earnings go for 

 whisky, what is left has to be made the most of in their 

 families and of course good milk and fresh butter are luxuries 

 not to be thought of. Oleomargarine and butterine have to be 

 invented to take the place of butter. Bad whisky is manufac- 

 factured for the same reason. Pure whisky costs too much; so 

 viler, more poisonous stuff takes its place. 



If our farmers who are in the habit of spending their nickels 

 in the saloon and billiard hall, would, instead, use the money in 

 fixing conveniences to help wives and daughters make gilt- 



