The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-05-14
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OLEoMARaARiNB--WHAr IT Is AND WHAT 1T Is
Nor.-Whcn Oleomargarine was first manufao-
tured we described the process, but that was
some years ago. Recent inquiries make il neces.
sary to say something moro about it. prepared
beef suet, the membranes, etc., removed, Is
churned with milk to give il the flavor of butter,
is colored and salted-that is what it is-beef-
fat prepared to look and taste like butter. II
has not the mechanical texture of or the chem
ical composition of, and is in respect, butter.
So far as it is sold rs butter II is o miserable
fraud. The makers claim that II Is as good rs
any butter and much better than largo share
of tho butter sold. That is o point with which
we have nothing to do. It is not butter, as that
is product of the COW, obtained through the
medium of the milk, and contains several con-
stituents that the fat Of the COW does not and
which can not be added. Several Of the States
have passed laws directing that alI the packages
Of Oleomargarine shall be distinctly marked with
the word in letters of given size. This is WELL
so far as it goes, but docs not prevent the retail
er from serving il rs butter. As oleomargarine
con be made at a much less cost than butter can
be produced the sale Of it as butter is injurious
to the dairy interest, and every dairyman and
every farmer is interested in preventing its
sale as butter, and to this end petition is being
circulated for signatures asking Congress by o
general law to place restrictions upon its manu-
facture and sale. But the capitalists who have
money invested in the manufacture of Oleomar-
garine are not idle. They have invited the Com
mittee on Agriculture Of Congress to visit their
foo l.u II
prominent chemists to do the same their guests
have been steamboated and dined and we sup
pose wined, all after the approved fashion. We
do not know what the effect will be upon the
Congressman, but we are very sure that the
chemists will say, rs they might have said be-
fore-"Gentlemen, your stuff is not injurious,
it is as healthy as beef-fat need be, we see no
objections if people wish beeffat with their
bread, why they should not buy yours, but it is
not butter and no amount of steamboat or ban
quet can make US say that it is."-Wc soc no
reason why colored and salted beef-fat or COL
ored and salted hogs lard, or purified and SAL
ted palm oil should not be eaten If ones taste
runs that way, but they should not be sold as
butter or given out to one who asks for butter
and the penalty to one who does II should be
most severe. We notice Of late Q disposition to
change the name Of the stuff to Butterine no,
gentlemen you chose your own name at the be-
ginning. Oleomargarine is quite pretty name
and as distinct from butter as the stuff itself,
and we do not wish name that may lead to the
confoundlng of two very distinct articles. But.
ter can ssanu on It's own merits, WIN Irs uwn
name; let your stuff do the same, and may there
be laws enough to make you do it.-Amer,
iedn Agriculturist.
IMPERIALISM AND GRANTIsM.-Ame.
ricans, like Englishmen, have been told that
it is high time for them to depart from the
traditions of the past. We have been
laughed at because we respected the un.
writton law which prohibits u third term of
the Presidency to the same person. The
friends Of General Grant imagine and pro-
claim crisis which demands that the Ame-
ricans should give up their ancient preju-
dices and put the "strong man" again in
the executive chair. We deny that such o
crisis does exist. And if it were upon US,
General Grant would not be the man to
meet it. Whatever his success as general,
he was q comparative failure rs President.
The cry about the "crisis" and "strong
the contractors and jobbers and political
hacks who fattened for two terms on the
corruption Of Grants administration, and
who want third term (and moro to follow
Of power and plunder under his approving
rule. The objects of the Grant movement
are more ignoble than those of British im-
perialism. Beaconsf I'D wantsan extension
of power, but not plunder. The Grant men
are after both Different in some respects,
the British Tories and the adulators Of
General Grant are alike in one particular
In their tendencies they are hostile to some
of the most venerable usages and traditions
of England and the United States respec.
lively. They are disposed to set aside bar.
riers OF custom and precedent which the
wisdom Of our ancestors had interposed
against ambitious and unscrupulous men,
1t will be we'll for the people of the United
States if they see in the British election
moral for their own guidance. Constitu.
tional governments are always in danger
from "strong men," They are always lia.
BILE to be subverted and slowly changed by
a falso hero worship. No republic is so se-
cure against such risks that her citizens
can afford to despise and ncglect them
That eternal vigilance which has led Eag-
lishmen to dethrone Toryism should also
prompt Americans to rebuke and resist
every attempt to fasten that odious system
which, for want Of better word, we call
Grantism, upon this country for third
term.--N. Y. Jownalcf Commerce.
The UNPAID MARsHALs.-New York,
May 5.-The United States marshal havi ing
notified Judge Shipman, who is now holding
the United States District Court In this dis
trict, that he had no money with which to