ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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that point. What I d'o not like to see is this disrespect for the courts^ 

 I have the greatest respect for the courts of my country and I have the 

 greatest respect for the jurisdiction of my country, and I do not like, as. 

 I came into this hall, to find a circular in the seats of the convention 

 arraigning a judge on his decision — that is little less than anarchy. As a: 

 practical dairyman I am willing to submit the case in which I am inter- 

 ested to the very highest court in the land, then if it is decided by that 

 body as unconstitutional, I am willing to commence over again, and place 

 upon the statute books a law that will be found constitutional. This 



dea of arraigning a judge's dicision, or a governor's, or a representatives, 

 or a senator's simply because you differ from him, perhaps, on some of 

 the law, there is altogether too much of that talk. We are here as loyal; 

 citizens, and all love our country, love our institutions, and the strong 

 bulwark is the faith we have in ihem and in the men who by a majority 

 of the votes of the people of this commonwealth and this nation, ar(5 

 called upon to administer in office. When we presume to ridicule the 



jame we are taking a position which we can ill afford to take. The one 

 reason why we were successful in enacting thi& legislation, which so- 

 far has proved bad for us, was from the fact that the dairymen ha-i 

 maintained an upright, honorable, and manly course in every single in- 

 stance. They could look every representative and every senator square, 

 in the eye and ask him to support that legislation, they could look the 

 chief executor of the State of Illinois squarely in the eye and say to him » 

 "Sir, the dairymen of this Northein Illinois, and the dairymen all oveF 

 Illinois ask to have you sign this bill that it may be placed upon tht^ 

 statutes of our State, and you remember that was signed and so become 

 a law. But these decisions, as I said, have made it unconstitutional at tite 

 present time. You are practical men; you business men, and theremedjr 

 is, that if what we have is not right, go at it like men. Let us not go* 

 after it crying down individuals and, impuigning his methiodei. Let us 

 carry it to a successful issue; because the farmers of this country can 

 illy afford to stand upon a position that is not strictly in accordance 

 ^ith a law that will be sustained by the highest courts of the land. 



