The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04
Milk Shippers Meet in Chicago
and Decide To Raise Price OF
Milk in Near Future
ToBlN is WCE.PREsIDENT
Kenosha Representative Given an Of
flee in Organization Which Prom
ses to Incluue Thousands
Of Farmers

Five hundred milk producing farmers
of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, tn,
men who supply Chicago with milk
"raised the devil" and the price O.
milk yesterday at meeting in The
Sherman House in Chicago.
To say that they "raised the devil
is to quote their own words and tx
/ typify the meeting which eventually
resulted in the organization Of the
Milk Producers Protective Association
This body will serve notice on the PEG
pie of Chicago that if they insist OF
having expensive, absolutely pure SAM
tary milk, according to the require
ments Of the new Chicago milk ordi
nances, they must give the farmer g
profit for it.
! There were present 208 delegates te
the convention, called by a committee
of Lake County, Illinois, milk produc
trs ana 800 other milk farmers. Pat
rick Tobin of Pleasant Prairie repre-
sented the Kenosha County Union
When the assemblage was being formed
into tangible organization the confu
sion and clashing Of many tongues re
called the bedlam Of the historic Tower
Of Babel.
But the chaos of ideas and words
which resounded above the din Of the
busy street was eurbed long enough fol
che accomplishment Of results and the
prospect is that Chicago and other city
consumers will face an increase in the
retail price of milk and cream in the
immediate future. According to the
plans the price of milk per quart will
advance to s.. cents before long and
eventually too cents. 'o @i6of sn3o1Hs
When @. G. Small Of Prairie View
ILL.,, called the meeting to order the
first thing was to check up on the dele
gates. When this had been accom-
pished motion was made for the
nomination of a temporary chairman.
Eventually after score, of farmers
had been. given an opportunity to be
heard,4a Temporary chairman was chos
en-, j. P. Mason Of Elgin, president Of
the Illinois Farmers Institute. Their
committees were appointed and the
convention got down to business. L
took hours of strenuous labor, however
on the part Of the convention managers
When the commi tees were sent out tt
get to work, Mrs. Scott Durand of Lake
Bluff addressed the convention OF
"Better Milk and Better Prices.''
/ We have been forced,'' said Mrs
Durand, ''to give to the people of Chi
csgo expensive milk. The require
nl2nts Of the new Chicago ordinance
are right No one wishes to live up t,
tho requirements as milk produce
any more than I do. But to do it tn
milk farmer must be protected and h
must get more for his product. How
CAN we follow the requirements Of tn,
ordinance and accept the present pric,
paid for milk by the dealers! The dis
tributor can pay us no more with TIL
present retail price at cents pc
quart. Seven cents per quart can Civ,
Chicago nothing better than 7 cen
milk. The distributor must have hi
share of the price. The farmer mus
have at least AZ cents per quart
Eight or 9 cent milk in Chicago i
bound to come. It must come I sup
pose the press and the public will thinl
me crazy. But I say that the dairy
man is crazy who is going to put 81.
hay and 60 cent corn into 31a cen
milk. When the Chicago dealers raise'
the price Of milk to cents they wer
indicted by the grand jury. If eve
Chicago should have been ashamed i
was when she became party to sue
J action
The farmers eventually effected a.
organization. Officers were elected a
follows:
President. P Mason, Elgin.
First Vice Presidents IS. B. Woods
Crown Point, Ind.
Second Vice Observation-Disclosures TIC
bin, Kenosha, Wis
, Third Vice President Ralph W
, Chittenden, Gurnee, III.
Secretary. P Grier, Vienna, wis
Treasurer. F. Martin, Antioch, Ill.
Great difference of opinion arose owe
the formation of the executive com
, mittee, which is to be composed of thil
teen members of Illinois, four fror
Wisconsin and four from Indiana I
was finally decided to let the delegate
return to their constituents if the
wished before selecting delegates fror
their respective counties. The consti
tuition the organization adopted pre-
vides that the producer shall deman
a price for his milk from the buyer.