Connecticut western news., 1920-10-21
ANOTHER PHASE OF THE
 MILK SITUATION
Farmers Being Tricked by Dairymen's League is
 Claim

| pTOmlSeS not only to InrOW the un- suspecting farmers back ten years, but to undo, at the expense of the finest milk in the world, all the good work done since 1911.
 Threatening to wreck the machin- cry of milk production and distri- button under the pretext of improv- ing it, the Dairymen's League aims a blow at every home. Apparently there is no legal barrier to stem this mad movement toward chaos. Ac- cordingly, in a desperate effort to arouse public opinion to some ade- quate realization of the enormity of the issue, I am addressing this open letter to the Nestle's Food Company, 130 William street, New York City, so that this, the largest milk com pany in the world, may either take up arms in a fight which the people as 8 whole don't even suspect is go- ing on or quit cold without a struggle. #..
 Gentlemen:-As a citizen, a tax payer, and the father of growing children, ask you what, if anything, you intend to do to defend the State of New York against the most deadly milk peril by which, in long siege of thinly disguised Sovetism, 1t has yet been menaced.
 You Are Doing Nothing
 You are a big factor in the milk industry. You are permitting the press agents of the Dairymen's Les que to clutter up the newspapers with falsehoods and half-truths de- signed to arouse public support of n movement headed straight for dis aster. AS far as the public knows, you are doing nothing and saying nothing to uncover the truth. You have sat in many conferences with Dairymen's League officials.
 The manufactured reports of what happened behind those closed doors always fooled the people to believe that the difference between the far mer and the milk plant had been composed. Invariably within the month of these press-agent false hoods the Dairymen's League of1- cials would be out again with q new knife sharpened for stabing and carving.
 You and your commercial rivah have always been pictured as the head devils who would have to be slaughtered if the farmers were ever to come into their own. I challenge you to show a single instance in which any of the facts laid by you before the Dairymen's League off, cials were ever passed on by those officials to the farmers.
 challenge you to show single instance wherein you have ever gone over the head of the league direct te it's members to show them the folly of their blind surrender of all their rights and privileges in law and equity to a group of agitators whose only ability to engineer the huge and complicated industry of the great state of New York is based upon the calamitous failure of the Country Milk Company-a failure which the Dairymen's League dis rreetly ignores when addressing the farmer.
 Should Be In Prison
 now have before me a batch of propaganda in the form of handouts submitted by the Dairymen's League to unsuspecting editors and publish CTS. It's like the stuff released in yesterdays papers, in which the league officials tell how the dairymen are now running fourteen milk plants; how the farmers will pool the proceeds of their sales and divide them on a pro rata basis; how the manufacturers during the war reached out and took over cenden- sories, creameries and cheese fac tories, dismantling plants and ruth lessly destroying the farmers mar ket.
 I challenge you to name a single plant that you or any other manu- facturer dismantled or attempted to dismantle to the detriment of the farmer or to the destruction of his market either during the war or since the war.
 The farmer himself knows that you enlarged plants and extended their scope under win-the-war pres sure applied by the Food Administra- tion. The farmer ought to know that had you done what the league now accuses you of doing you would have gone to federal prison on charges of aiding the enemy.
 What effort have you made to lay the truth before the farmer who is now being fed with such stuff?
 R. D. Cooper, president of the Dairymen's League, says that the storehouses are erammed with con densed milk made with high-priced sugar, and that as sugar has dropped 10 cents a pound in the last two months the manufacturer now pro- poses to work off his high-priced stuff before making a new supply