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was invariably some that had been discarded by everybody 
else. The fact is the cheese of to-day is made to suit the 
people. The cheese makers are not all dishonest men, and 
rogues; they are fully up to the standard of the people 
around them. People now prefer skim cheese to full 
creams. If we are going to affect any reform in this matter 
let us go back to the first principles and devise new 
stomachs for the people of this country. 
Further laws now enacted would have about the same 
effect upon the business as the game laws have upon the 
shooting of game out of season. 
What I wish to get at is this : Until you get the sen¬ 
timent of the community up to where they will enforce the 
laws, your fault-finding and grumbling will avail little. I 
say this with all due respect to the Illinois State Dairy¬ 
men’s Association. 
This matter of adulteration in butter and cheese is but 
a small part of that being carried on in different articles of 
food. How many persons are there who can remember 
how old-fashioned sweet wheat bread tasted before this 
patent process flour, an undigestihle stuff, became common. 
And infact in the list just read there is scarcely an articleof 
food but wh : is being adulterated. I don't know how we 
were going to get around using unless we give up eating 
entirely. 
In order to enforce these laws, or any kind of 
laws it is necessary to • organize and work to¬ 
gether in the matter, and don’t forget while working that 
there are people in the community who eat something be¬ 
sides butter and cheese. I would suggest if you intend go- 
in o- at this thing in earnest, that you raise $10,000 to get 
