The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-04-03
anaerson gntelligepter.
OLE0MARGARISE.
DaIrymen In Hopeless FIEh, against
Bogus Butter.
cararen4lnee .Nes. a.a Carier.


bogus butter business q; the ,arn,-!
PRAYER Of bitter maker and dealers,
particularly the maker, !or the dealer
can generally make more by selling o.eo
than butter, and when pushed To the
wall by competition this Is w!ja. he Doe
is nine cases cut Of ten. 4 !eT yeats ago
some meetings were held al our Butter
and Cheese Exchange 70 p!CIea: again-:
the introduction u bJgu- bu;ier, aud
some very fiery speechcs were made by
men who denounced The begn- bn!:e:
manufacturers as eneIni- Of manEIHd,
ard 10 day the chief -praHer Z: the meet
ings sells ten tubs ci yl.o 20 one Of
butter. Tie 4i,.ory Of bGgu. Butter may
be summed up, 30 "a: q New l2!k j.
concerned. in q yery few wofd.. in 1874
q Young F.tDchman naGtd Allied Parat
aDDearcd in New YORK ni:h nrmber of
patents or secrets fpr doing wDE!eciu!
ihing. and among the:n vas = formula
ioi making o!eomargar!ne. Ten year. az"
there was not IN III. country i-oun! Of
the stuff which ba. u.urpei Tie Pace Of
butter in the markets of the world and
nearly ruined the dairynicu. FarnH 20,
Up s.oci; company for the manufacture
Of his stuff and fyr while all wen: beau
tifu!ly. Cried Jed him to Ii, downfall
lie had also valuable fvEInui" T.: ra':.
ing black dye, waich he -lid u a CON.
psny, bu. no! c1ntcn. VIII: !"g:,im .te
enterprises, he tiled - bleed amber
Of citizcus by inducing .Aem 70 i'ay
large sum Of money 10, 4 rrccc>. "
which gold could be extracted iroiA
certain Michigan copper ore. "h;ic
making his experiments he Lived IN es.
traYagant style q: the Everett llnrs",
drove fa.: horses, and began Tie i"y
with bath into which lis va!c. pour:
twenty dpliar.' worth Of altar Ci rp-e.
and fine cologne. When 1! The hcisE!
OF bis prosperity he Ta. married TO
daughter Of Nr. Bainbridge smith,
Sew York la~yer. and i,resenicd her
wiih house on Fifth avenue AuI 4
check for s2j.0JD on the welding day.
The bubble burst q feU months after that,
and for the next FIVE yeara We heard Of
I'araT flying from the police 10 almost
every country Of the globe. II turned
out that he had stolen from some French
laboratory, in which he had been en-.
ployed, the proccss 70! making Olec and
the black dye. They had genuine value,
and would have suficed 10 make his for.
tune. His process for getting gold out Of
copper ore was n swindle pure and sim
pie. He was heard from in San Francis
CO, in Peru, in Brazil, in Holland, and
next he may turn up among the child.
like Ceiestia!s.
Paran7a legacy TO America was the pro-
cess for making bogus butter. The com
pany which worked j; a. first attempted
TO create demand for oleomargarinc as
such. That led it to the verge Of bank
ruptcy. Then the product was sold as
butter, and the demand grew to be tre.
mendous. The butter dealers took fright
and managed to have bill passed com
pelIiug every manufacturer Of oico TO
brand the tubs 'oleomargarine" This
law has proved rijicuousIy Ineffective.
New names have been used 10 co-eE the
old fraud we hear no more about oleo.
margarine, but by looking carefully at
the tubs from which the grocers deal out
the "gilt-edgcd" butter, the brand But.
ter-inc" may perhaps be found-but,er
in very large letters and inc in very
small. Grocers usually 30 manage tina.
the customer never happens 10 see this
brand. but there it is In case some inspcc.
tor comes around to make sure that all
bogus butter TUBS are properly branded.
Bill after bill was brough, forward wnen
1t was found how useless il was 10 brand
the tubs, but go far not q suggestion Inns
been made which Promises q way out Of
the difficulty, unless it is to compel olco
makers 10 color their product a distinct.
i've tint, such IA green or pink. i, is not
possible for the dRirymcn 20 keep an in.
spec.or in every grocery Of the city TO
see that the grocer Informs each customer
who wants butter that he is going to get
oleo If he buys there, and now that all
attempts to prove oleo sufficiently dele.
terious to health 70 warrant the law in
forbiddiug its manufacture have failed,
no alternative is left If the opponents
of oleo cannot devise some means of let
ting the public know that it is not buy
ing butter the business will go on doub.
ling every year, as it has done since 1878.
Dealers in real butter contend that not
per cent Of tho business now done IN
oleo could be done If customers knew
what they were buying. Some months
ago tub Of o!eo was boldly marked Us
such in Washington Market and exposed
for sale. Thousands of pounds Oh o!eo
were sold as butter every day all around
it, but for weeks no one would bus from
this honestly marked tub. At last one
man bought pound and too.. it away
for purpose Of chemical analysis, he said
ThI experiment showed that victory was
with the genuine butter dealers could
they compel honesty in retailing oleo.
The question is, can they do anything Of
the kind? That the majority Of New
York groccrs sell oeo for butter was
proved by the result Of an examination
made of thirty samples recently bought
at first.class groceries. The prices varied
from 81 to 33 cents, some grocers charg.
ing more for oleo than others charged
for genuine butter, the object being 20
prevent suspicion. Ofthe thirty samples
ten proved TO be genuine butter, the 9th.
er twenty containing little or no butter
st all. In oil cases careful inspection
was made OF the shop 10 find any indica.
tion that the customer vas told the truth,
b.! &C cleo brands oE sigHs weTe visible.
BUTTER-MEN's STORIES.
Some Of the experts who have testified
before the committee have rather sur.
pr;sed the public, as when q veteran
butter man confesses that he cannot tell
oleo from genuine butte. without q
chemical test, and when it is admitted
that tub of oleo recently carried off the
first prize for butter at dairy show in
Utica. The experts for the oleo men
have testified that no cases of sickness
from eating oleo have been known, and
oven butter champions have been obliged
to confess that good oleo is better than
bad butter. The e!ee experts also con.
tend that the stories OF the use of filthy
. fats aud of the slaughter. r.house products
of deceased animals are absurdiy untrue,
I, because .he health inspectors do not al.