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of making butter and cheese ought to go down too. No 
. usmess was so sure; no risk; with but little capital 
invested. 
L. C. Ward said that from the letter of Willard’s it 
appealed that five cents and two cents were charged east. 
ow if you need a lawyer do you employ a good one or a 
shyster because he is cheap. He found it paid best to 
employ first-class men in all professions. One Eastern 
ac ory run upon the cheap plan paid twenty-two cents per 
hundred pounds; this may do on paper,but it will not satisfy 
patrons. If his patrons would furnish him forty thousand 
pounds per day, he would pay them back six dollars per 
month or seventy-two hundred dollars per year; he could 
aftord to do it upon so large an amount. Could build 
sheds and run them by women, but could not pay the 
patrons a living dividend by so doing. 
Judge Wilcox had always found that in any business 
the shyster charged the most for his services. It was an 
impoitant question and should be discussed fairly; if the 
prices charged five years ago were fair then, they ’are nof 
air now; labor as well as real estate must come down; it 
not it is not faim as it now is. The question is, “ What is 
a fair price, etc.” All men should have a fair compensa¬ 
tion for their labor, but it should not reach extortion. 
Every person who is engaged in any legitimate business 
s lould make money, if they are good business men; but 
if cheese can be made in the East for one and one-quarter 
cents per pound, it can and ought to be done here. He did 
not believe the highest price always brought the best labor. 
He was in earnest in this matter, and wanted to bring it 
fairly before the dairymen. If all dairymen would keep 
their own accounts it would prove another thing; as it now 
is, all is left to the factoryman; he keeps your accounts, 
and at stated periods pays you just what he sees fit, and 
no more; the dairyman has do idea whether it is what 
really belongs to him or not. 
