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not permitted at all. You may think that is a stringent law, but 

 if I could take you into our large cities where the fat of the hog 

 is colored up to look like the fat of the good old cow, then you 

 will say it is a righteous law. You can hardly hope that every 

 State in the Union will have this law, but we hope other dairy 

 States will have it and back up Illinois. You will have other 

 speakers who will go further into this subject with you. 



We are very glad indeed that the doors of Vandalia are 

 thrown open to us. We shall try to behave that the calaboose 

 will not find us and we can promise you that you can throw your 

 key to it into the Kaskaskia River, for you will not need it. 



We shall hope that the citizens will turn out to our meetings. 

 I hope the men of Vandalia will see that their wives, their sweet- 

 hearts and their sisters are here. You will be surprised how the 

 ladies, in talking at their sewing societies or their card parties, 

 will disseminate this knowledge. What we want is the dissemina- 

 tion of this knowledge. Knowledge is easy to get. We have 

 urged our University to have a department to spread this knowl- 

 edge, and the past two years they have done admirable work. It 

 is fully as important to distribute knowledge as it is to gather 

 this knowledge at the University. It is all right to have a splen- 

 did University to gather this knowledge, but if they keep it what 

 good is it to you and what good would it do to the farmer who 

 hardly ever goes out of his own town? 



With this, Mr. Chairman, I think I will be excused. Thank 

 you for inviting us here. 



Chairman : — It is customary and I guess necessary to have 

 the President's address at one of these meetings. Mr. Caven 

 insists on having it on the program, and what I have to say will 

 not detain you but a moment. I have jotted down a few memo- 

 randums which I will read to you, briefly expressing my views 

 at these meetings. 



