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to work against us whether right or wrong, should not occupy a 

 Federal position as important as this. The difficulty of his removal 

 is this: No man is all good and no man is all bad. No one is willing 

 to declare that Dr. Wiley is not a chemist, but that he is a pathological 

 chemist I deny. He was educated a physician, but has never practiced 

 medicine a day in his life, so far as I am able to learn; therefore, he 

 can not speak as a pathological chemist, though he can speak unques- 

 tionably as a chemist per se. It goes, therefore, without saying that 

 Dr. Wiley is useful in some branches of the work which has been 

 assigned to him, and unless we can show that there is real necessity, a 

 public demand from the fruit growers of this State and from other 

 states likewise interested, for the removal of Dr. Wiley, I fear he 

 will remain in his present position and go on fighting without limit, 

 to our detriment. He has it in mind now, and that mind has been 

 made known to me, to again introduce a bill into the different legis- 

 latures of the respective states. I have seen a draft of that bill; I 

 know its conditions. I know it was introduced at the congress in Denver 

 in September, but having 47 votes against and 44 in favor, they did not 

 dare make the motion that it be approved by the congress and it fell 

 dead. But that effort is going to be revived just as sure as the sun 

 rises and sets, and the work that has been done will be futile unless 

 we continue like efforts to those of the last two years, to circumvent 

 any action of his in reference to the introduction of these bills. It 

 makes no difference what the federal law may be. We are all in favor 

 of a pure food law. Every intelligent man and woman in California is in 

 favor of a pure food law. But if the different states pass laws of their 

 own, as they have a right to do. and make them so binding that we can not 

 introduce our goods and dispose of them in those states, the federal 

 law will not help us ; the state statute will control, so far as the state 's 

 distribution is concerned. You may think that I am somewhat per- 

 sistent. I deny that I am vindictive, but I am so interested in Cali- 

 fornia, I am so interested in the people of California. I am so interested 

 in the industries of California, that it makes no difference who the 

 man is, high or low, when I find he is working against these interests 

 I am against him and persistently so. and therefore I say, whether 

 Dr. Wiley likes me or not, that I am not his friend, I never expect to 

 be. I believe that it would be a wise thing for conventions like this 

 to place themselves on record by resolution, supporting the Referee 

 Board and declaring it to be their intention to stand by the finding of 

 that board, whatever it may be. I thank you. (Applause.) 



A recess was here taken until 1.30 o'clock p. m. 



