3 50 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



HON. W. SCOTT MATFHEWS, PURE FOOD 

 COMMISSIONER. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Friends : 



I thank you very much for this opportunity, and it would 

 not be in good taste on my part to inflict a talk on you, or at- 

 tempt to do so. I feel, however, that I want to thank the peo- 

 ple of Carbondale for their continued faith, friendship and 

 loyalty to me, and the favorable comments on my work, but 

 there is one thought that comes to me here, and that is, if I have 

 accomplished anything it has been due to the opportunity of- 

 fered me by the loyal friendship toward me by the people of 

 Carbondale and Jackson County who have stood by me and be- 

 hind me in securing this appointment. Whatever I may be able 

 to accomplish and what I have accomplished I want you folks 

 to know that I first feel the obligations that I owe to you here 

 in Jackson County, and while I am here, as this is my home, I 

 take the time because I think you will be glad to know it, and 

 tell you that I recently made a comparison of my work com- 

 pared with my predecessor's in a financial way — what L have 

 accomplished in the Food and Dairy work must speak for itself 

 — that, we have not the figures on, we must take that for whait 

 it is w^orth, but in a financial way I am able to give you facts 

 and figures. I have taken the two and a half years, the best 

 years of my predecessor's work, under the same laws and prac- 

 tically the same conditions, and my two years and a half work 

 and I am very glad to tell you that receipts under my adminis- 

 tration has exceeded that of my predecessor over $50,000.00, 

 and while it is blowing my own horn, it is my horn and I don't 

 know of any better place to blow it than before the people who 

 have helped me." 



