ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 3^7 



by choosing a wrong campaign issue. If we are starting wrong laws let 

 us start over again and start right. 



Mr. Harris: In answering the question I don't know that I would* be 

 Toicing the sentiment really of the National Dairy Union. I don't know 

 that I am really conversant with the laws of this State, but we do know 

 that through the rulings of Judge Hanecy the law has been a dead-letter 

 ^o far as he is concerned. 



You have referred to Iowa. 1 have spent some time in Iowa and had 

 talks with Dairy Commissioner Norton and) also with Ex^Dairy 

 Commissioner Gates in regard to the situation in Iowa. Last fall, a 

 year ago, in the city of Omaha I took dinner with Mr. Gates a few hours 

 before he dropped dead while making a speech in that city. He stated to 

 me that in his opinion it was impossible for him to detect who was 

 handling oleomargarine in Iowa. He was elected dairy commissioner at 

 a small salary. He was allowed one assistant; that assistant did the office 

 work and kept the books, and Iowa is a large State. It is impossible for 

 any one man to have gone through an inspection and found the amount 

 of oleomargarine handled by that State. 



You take New York, there is a vast difference. There they have an 

 appropriation of $240,000 a year and six inspectors. It is much easier to 

 keep bogus butter out of that State. 



In Minnesota we have thirteen inspectors with quite a large appro- 

 priation back of them. We manage to keep oleomargarine out quite 

 thoroughly, and still an inspector told me a few weeks ago that he had 

 that week detected fifty-one handling oleomargarine illegally and pro- 

 posed prosecuting the lot of them. The manufacturer sells oleomar- 

 garine to the jobber for just what it is. It is the retailers and jobbers 

 we have to fight and fear. They are bound to impose upon the public and 

 palm their goods off for butter; and so we feel we would like to see the 

 laws of Illinois enforced and we would like to see a man in the Governor's 

 chair who has the appointing power to see that these laws are enforced. 

 We feel that would not be accomplished if Judge Hanecy was governor. 

 We would not expect Judge Hanecy would enforce the law or appoint 



