The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
o1.EoMARGARINE I'M INDIANA.

Indiana is rightfully classed as an agricul-
tural State. Her great interests are agrlcul-
tura!. Her wealth is the products OF her
farms. Indiana, according to the report of
the Bureau of Statistics has 394, S32 cows
These cows, at moderate estimate, ought
to produce about p, OOO,OO pounds of butter
annually. Good butter is a luxury and a
necessity. 1t is so regarded everywhere.
Indiana has themeans Gfsupplying the home
demand for butter Indeed, her resources
are such that she could supply the domestic
market and have a surplus. AT any rate,
Indianians ought To be spared from the in
sufferable scourge of oleomargarine-Or,
more properly, soap grease-butter The
laws ought to be SO stringent upon
the subject that the indescribable
nastiness could not be manufactured
nor sold for butter in the State. 1t is food
infamy of such loathsomeness, of such sick
enine offensiveness, of such unclean and
polluted compounds, that the bare contem
plation of the mass OF impurity is sufficient
to produce stomach cramps Yet, this vile
stuff is sold in Indiana for butter, and is
sometimes purchased for the tables of citi-
zens, who, if they were aware of the deceP-
ton would scarcely purchase it for their
dogs. We are advised that some of this
oleomargarine found its way TO the City
Hospital. and that the vile stuff. upon being
ana wed was found TO contain from, 10 to so
pcr cont of fats other than butter" Weare told
that this soap grease butter got TO the City
Hospital by mistake, which was promptly
corrected. We do not suppose there is a
man or woman in Indiana who would,
knowingly, purchase OF eat ''OleOmargarine,"
'.butterine," or sOap-grease butter under any
circumstances. The vile adulteratiOn is not
FL for human beings; still it is disposed of IN
Indianapolis. 1t is bad enough to inhale
the thousand and one separate and distinct
stenches supplied by street filth. 1t is bad
enough to see the winds take up the pulver
lied nastiness of the streets and spread it
over meats and vegetables exposed as signs
in front of shops, but it is incomparably
worse to eat butter in which there is
from IS to so per cent. of fats
other than butter. What are these
fats? Who can tell? 1t may be the
fat cleaned by scavengers, the fat of diseased
hogs, dead dogs or dead mules. The people
are totally ignorant of what constitutes the
IS or 80 per cent of Instantaneous compound.
Yet il is sold, sold in indianapolis, the Cap
ital City and commercial center of a great
agricultural State with a capacity to manu-
facture more than 100000 pounds of pure
butter annually. 1t is well enough in this
connection to put upon record what has
been said by parties competent to express an
opinion. Hon. G. NJ. Gleason, of New York,
refers to oleomargarine as "gut-fat butter. "
The New York Journal of Commerce refers
10 il as wheel grease" The Sussex Register
.ays OF the manufacture of oleomargarine
4sTbe fraud in oleomargarine begins
with the so-called churning process; begins
with the dye-stuff and the 10 per cent. oil
milk whipped in with intent to deceive; be
syins with the gloss of color and the odor OF
decaying tactical particles, making base
counterfeit of the pure and honest butter OF
rural commerce. IL is as proper to say
that nure coined brass can be passed for gold
and pure tin go for silver coin as that this
gilded beef fat may be uttered in the traffic
Of the Nation as butter" The st. Louis
Trade World says: Professor Dollinger as
serts that he has found germs Of the tape
worm in specimen of oleomargarine sub
noitted to him for analysis Scientists o.
equal merit assert that 40 per cent. OF thu
compound is indigestible matter and viii
tsrm neither blood, nor bone, nor brain