The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-12-19
THE DAIRY INTERESTS.
Frank Noulton Makes . Speech In tie Dial.
~ Business full Of Interest.

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Frank Nouiton Makes Speech In tie DIAL.
~ Business full Of Interest.
New Turk Teegram. 18th.
Mr.. Moulton said he had been called up
on by the executive committee to express
Its thanks to the assemblage. They did
not arrogate themselves credit for the sue
cess of the fair, but acknowledged most
gratefully their obllgatlons-6rst to the
press of this city and the country at large,
for their accurate report ofeach day pro-
ceedings and exhibits. They thanked the
eminent men who had addressed their
meetings, the exhibitors who had contrib
uted the products of their industry. the
judges who had been impartial. and the
great mass of the community who had VS.
| tied the exhibition. Above all they thank
ed God The speaker next recounted the
origin of the international Dairy FAIR. :"
the inception of which was due TO reso-
luton passed by the American Dairymen
Association Of Cleveland. Ohio. January.
., 1873. New York was advocated as the
best place in which to hold the fair. There
was moral as well as business necessi-
ty for it. The city of New York needed
1t. There was hand mighty to push il
forward. When the press announced that
the value of butter and cheese produced
annually was :j0.000.00O more than the
wheat crop of the country, the public was
astounded. These figures had a deeper
meaning than mere money value. The
dairy industry was beneicent creator of
homes. giyer of comfort. and security
for education. The figures represented a
development unparalleled in any other in
dustry and change for the better in the
agricultural growth of the country. Tn
effect of labor in this branch exerted a
great moral influence. In prosperous dali
~ districts there was scarcely any pauper-
ism. drunkenness or crime. The vast pop
ulation Of the country must be cared for
morally as welt as materially. said the
speaker, by a development of its agricul-
culture resources. The question Of the
employment of the rapidly-growing masses
OF the population was one worthy of the
attention of philanthropists, statesmen and
merchants Mr.. Moulton did not
claim that the dairying industry would
furnish panacea for all poverty. but he
thought a long step in the right direction
might be taken by inviting the attention
of the nation to this industry as a means
ofsupport, since over-production was hard
~ possible. The wisest man of the coun-
try should be in the Cabinet of the Presi-
dent as Minister of Agriculture. Those
most concerned in the matter should insist
on such an Official representation. Legis-
lators had been too busy with the schemes
OF capitalists to give any attention 10 the |
needs Of the people The tariff ought TO !
he so altered as to facilitate the export OF !
American productions through the importa- !
ton of the products of other countries. /.
An over-production Of fine butter and fine |
cheese was not to be feared in view of the |
necessities existing in Europe for such ar
ticles of consumption.
IMPORTANCE OF DAIRyrxG.
II was difficult. continued the speaker.
% Over-estimate what would be the result |
n money value TO the country. of the care
which would produce the best cows giving
he largest yield of milk for the manufac-
ure of the greatest quantity and finest
quality of butter and cheese The sub
titution of the creamery system for the
arm dairy mode Of making butter was ad-
'Ocated by Mr.. Moulton II represented
he difference, he thought, between apa-
nv and enterprise, depression and pros
,erity. The industry was almost hitherto
'ikHoWn. atnoHgn OF the suprenlest I'M
'ortance TO the merchants of New York.
o care for IT in all its relations was their
uty. Speculation. on account of lack
{ honest industry. had ruined thous .,ds.
had turned economy out of
0ors, and admitted the sheriff's officers.
III this should be changed not only for its
fleet upon the pockets of the people, but ,
Is influence upon their morals.
BEFORE AND AFTER ELEc- ,
TON. II
There was no better illustration of the {
Indifference of New York to great indus
ries, than the absence from the exbibi- |
ION of the mayor who was going out. and |
ne mayor who was coming in. Both had y
cen invited to preside at the opening and I
9th had declined The dear people" a
ere always objects Of grea: solicitude TO c
OPTICIANS before election-seldom after 4
ard. II was hardly worth while, howey- .
:, TO refer to politicians indifference, /,
hen the presiding officer Of the closing v
,ssion was prominent editor Journal a
IS were Of more consequence than Office h
olders, and the press was more powerful a
ian presidents or kings. It was true b
lat nothing was Of better import TO the o
'untry than financially prosperous farm a
g. Nothing was so essential to the p
-osperitv Of New York and TO the solven-
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