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I saw an article in the paper at Roel^ford along this line, and being 

 on this subject, is very conciliatory and worthy the attention of the 

 iairymen. I do not believe in accusing a man and blaming a man and 

 impugning his motives when he occupies as high a position as some of 

 the men who have been i .pugned in this meeting. It is well to meet 

 these men who have borne the burdens during the heat ol this battle. 

 It is something marvelous the amount of labor, the amount of work they 

 ■do. Remember they are at Spriigfield and far from you in northern 

 ■Illinois. 



I believe I had a batch cf letters this high (indicating- by his hands) 

 bearing on this subject, and this is the right thing to do, to simply 

 keep after your members of the house and your mem.bers of the senate, 

 not only one year, but two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine 

 years, until you accomplish the object you are after. I have kept all 

 these letters and postal cards and stored them away in a box, and it is 

 •the right thing to do to send them. Those of us at Springfield enacting 

 legislation for your benefit, we are there as your servants, and when you 

 desire certain legislation you are likely to get what jou want. But be 

 very careful that it is carefully prepared so it will stand the court. The 

 work that was done by the dairymen of northern Illinois was marvelous. 



I am almost a veteran in carrying our your ideas and placing thera 

 upon the books of the State. If wr- have made a mistake, then let us do 

 the very next best thing we can — remedy the error by making a law that 

 will be right. 



I thank you for listening to me, and remember it is only a short while 

 «ince a representative gathering from all over northern Illinois would 

 not represent the intelligence and the brightness that I see in this audi- 

 torium here. The time has passed when our dairymen are not fully 

 alive to the situations that sii: round them as citizens. He must go 

 along the lines in which he is interested in that way and in that manner 

 which will bring ultimate success for whatever he is seeking. 



We make an appropriation of $1500 for the dairymen's convention of 

 the State of Illinois; appropriation for the Farmers' Institute, and an 



