The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-14
BUTTER.

BUTTER.
Francis D. Mo0lton, president of the In
ternationsl Dairy Fair association, has sent
out for signatures blank petitions to Con-
gress, praying against the abominsoIe work
of manufacturing butter from ingredients the
mention of which is sufficient to create the
most profound disgust. The petition reads
as follows:
To the Honorable the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States:
Your petitioners, dairymen, farmers, manu-
facturers of and dealers In butter end cheese
in the United states, respectfully represent
that serious injury is being inflicted upon the
dairy iudustry of this country, aud that gross
imposition is being perpetrated upon consum-
ers in America and Europe, by the manufac
ture and sale OF a compound known as Oleo-
maTgarine-a mixture of fat with butter or
milk-aDd generally sold under the name OF
butter, and urge the passage of a law
Prohibiting the admixture of fats with but
ter milk, or cream.
Prohibiting the use of all coloring matter
in the fat of animals designed for food pur-
Prohibiting the sale eleomsrgarine as but
ter, and the use Of the word butter in mark.
ing. branding or selling any other &rticle than
Prohiblrng the expectation of oleomar-
garine, whether invoieed as ele0margarine
Sutter, butterlne, Oleomargarine OIL or under
Prohibiting the use of ingredients other
than the caul fat OF healthy beef cattle in the
manufacture of any article of human food.
margarine, and other admiXture of fat
grease offered for sale for food under the super
vision of the National board of health to pre-
vent the use of refuse or diseased fats in their
manufacture. and such other enactments as
are necef sary in the premises for the full pro-
lection of all producers and consumers
And your petitioners will ever pray, etc.
There are number of establishments in
Q
oleomargarine and buttennP AN admiKture of
animal fat with milk which is churned and
so manipulated as to have the appearance OF
butter, and as such is sold to the people. IL
must of necessity be an offensive compound
at best, and when it is considered that al
most anything in the shape of grease can be
used, there are few stomachs that can stand
the strain OF digesting the offensive mess.
Strange to say, the manufacturers of this
nasty commodity, sort of ointment, which
ought TO be used exclusively for healing
Sores have the Impudence to ask Congress to
sanction their business and give them license
to sell their disgusting stuff as butter.
Against this proceeding the people of the
United States ought to protest with
all the emphasis they can command.
The demand now is to increase the
of good, pure, healthy dairy
butter, and not to sanction the manufacture
and sale os compound that bears
about the same relation to butter that
the flesh of pole cat bears to that
of the best beef offered in the market
Instead Of ssnctioning the sale OF spurious
food commodities, Congress, if it feels
called upon to do anything should impose
the severest penalties upon those who would
palm off upon the community such stuff as
for butter. We are glad to
know that the people all over the country
are waking up to the importance OF the sub
jet, and that steps will be taken to caution
the public against the use of soap-grease but.
ter. The form of the petition we print may
be used by those interested in the subject
and Indiana should forward such protes.
to Congress as will command attention
What Is done should be done promptly. The
New York Journal of Commerce, in com.
mentinS upon the oleomargarine business
saws:
As long as there are dishonest grocers and
stupid buyers and large profit to o. made by
palmtng off wheel grease for good table butter,
the trade will thrive, Let the public be told in
their newspapers who does not keep oleomar-
garine for sale, and they VIII go there for their
butter No man is so poor as TO want the
imitation for the real article at any
price. The human stomach revolts at the
very thought OF it. 1t can only be disp Jsed of
10 the ignorant and unsuspectlng. AS for the
laws against oleomargarine, they eau not be
made too stringent. 1t is very pleasant to
read occasionally Of the arrest, trial, convic-
tion and punishment of those who are robbing
the poor and tampering with the pub bile health
in this insldious way. Eat a still better
method of putting down the fraud is that
adopted unanimously by the butter and cheese
dealers OF st. Louis, and also by the PhIladel-
phia Produce Exchange. They pledge them
selves to have no business relations whatever
with persons who make, buy or sell the de-
tested compound.
The merchants of Indianapolis should
adopt the policy of st. Louis and Philadel-
phia merchants, and see to it that this ONT.
ment-butter this combination of SOAP
grease and milk-is not sold to the people
for butter.