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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
of profit in the worlds commerce. 
After such testimony it appears to me that no one 
will deny that something - should be done by our state and 
geneial government to protect the lives of our people trom 
the sharks who are bent on murdering us by piece-meal 
with what ought to be palatable food. Our own state, as 
I find by the statute, has given us a wholesome law in re¬ 
gard to the adulteration of butter and cheese, but we need 
some way of enforcing it, and we need a more sweeping 
aw in relation to all food adulteration, with a provision that 
will send every man convicted of this nefarious business to 
state’s prison for life. 
FRANK CROSBY’S SPEECH. 
Mr. Crosby, of Elgin, was called and spoke as fol¬ 
lows : 
Legislation, if by that was meant the enactment of 
new laws, was unnecessary in this matter of food 
adulteration for the reason that we had not tried the laws 
already upon our statute book. t A law for such a purpose 
was, in his judgment, not worth the paper it was printed 
upon unless, it was backed by public opinion. The statutes 
alieady upon the books were good enough, he did not see 
how they could be better worded. If these laws are en¬ 
forced then we have enough ; if they are not enforced we 
would better not ask for more. Unless you get public sen¬ 
timent back of your existing laws, it is absurd to talk of 
further legislation. 
You may just as well make up your mind first as last, 
that you can t legislate honesty into butter and cheese 
makeis nor wisdom into consumers of these articles. 
There was a time when we could get, in this country, 
good orthodox cheese, but now you could not get such 
cheese for love nor money. Once in a while he went into 
a grocery store and found cheese that he could eat, but f 
