2 88 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Then followed what is conceded to be one of the most active and bit- 

 terly contested fights ever known in Coingress. The oleomargarine 

 makers summoned to their support, through misrepresentations, the grow- 

 ers of cotton, live stock and leaders ot organized labor, all of whom 

 sent delegation after delegation to appear before the House and Senate 

 committees to protest against our bill. The cotton growers through cot- 

 tonseed oil makers, claimed the cottonseed oil industry would be wiped 

 out if oleomargarine could not masquerade as butter; the National 

 Livestock Association maintained a lobbyist at Washington, whom they 

 paid $10,000 per year, to antagonize the bill, on the plea that if oleomar- 

 garine could not be colored to look like butter, the value of livestock 

 in this country would depreciate $65,000,000 per year as a/ result of a 

 loss of a market for beef fat/and lard. The representatives of labor 

 unions claimed that laboring men wanted oleomargarine and wanted it 

 colored to look like yellow butter. 



Our victory of December 7, 1900, in the House, was overwhelming, the bill 

 passing by a majority of 104 votes. But we had been too long delayed 

 in the House committee to enable us to get through the Senate at the short 

 session of the Fifty-sixth Congress. 



However we took the matter up again at the Fifty-seventh session, 

 and this pamphlet contains the result. 



NATIONAL DAIRY UNION WORKED CONTINUALLY FOR OVER 

 THREE YEARS. 



For three years and five months the National Dairy Union has main- 

 tained an office and force to carry on this work. The original $10,000 

 asked for to defray the expenses proved tu be only a good starter. We 

 have expended in a single month in postage, printing and labor, as much 

 as $5,000, one lot of letters sent to dairymen of the country costing $2,500 

 alone for postage printing of contents and labor of preparation In this 

 manner, and for traveling and other expenses of those who have been com- 

 pelled to go to Washington in the interest of this legislation, over $35,000 

 has been expended in three and one-half years from this office alone. 



Practically every dollar 1 of this money has been raised through solici- 

 tations by the writer in addition to the work necessary in connection with 

 the tremendous correspondence 1 and over a year's time spent in Washing- 

 ton. The treasury of Chicago Da'ry Produce has been open at all times 

 to tine National Dairy Union, and when funds have not beien otherwise 

 available, this paper has supplied the necessary means to carry on the 



