Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-05-27
AN ryroUrTo,,s r1w.
"a Monstrous Folly ana Wrong For the gu
preme Court 90 Set Right.

Il
The Legislature last week passed finally and |
the governor approved the bill 10 preventive
manufacture or sale of oleomargarine in this ,
commonwealth. The first section of this law
is, In effect as follows
"No person, firm, or corporate body, shall
manufacture out of any oleaginOus substance
or any compound Of the same, any article de-
signed to take the place of butter cheese |
produced from pure unadulterated milk or
cream from the same, or any imitation or |
aduiteratod butter or cheese, nor shall sell,
or offer for sale, or have in his, her, or their
possession with intent to sell, the same as an
article of food.'
Upon what grouud the general assembly
passed or tho governor approved an act of |
that character is away and beyond the find
ing out; ; and IL the judicial department of the
government does not declare il null add void,
the popular faith in common justice and the
supposed good policy of law, will DO severely
shaken. That the sale of oleomargarne
should be made subject of legislation is not
questioned. and it is.ndisputably.truo that the
compound which is a manufactured imitation |
of butter was not only often sold for genuine
butter, but was bought by the farmers and /
others and used In and for the adulteration of |
butter and cheese Just so far as that decep- |
tive traffic in 1t was carried on was oleonar- |
garine a fraud upon the public But il was |
the fraud that was TO be detected and pre- |
vented. The law could have done that as |
etsily aS IL tcOulu nave prevented ltS haflu1ac-
ture or sale and that was all that 1t was either
necessary or desirable should be done The
most trustworthy, skilled and honorable |
chemists and medical scientists i'm the coun-
| try have testified that this compound Is per-
| fectly wholesome and unprejudicial TO the
health of the users of it. IL is confessedly, as
| an article of food, clean and pure i'm fact, 10
must be both in order to have any commercial
value. 1t Is simply an artificial substitute
| for butter ; il is made OF various oleaginous
| substances, all which are absolutely purified
| in the making, and, under its own name, its
| character clearly indicated, il is az legitimate
and proper an article of manufacture or sale
| as the purest Alderney or Holstein butter, or
any other article under the sun. 1t il possi-
bly, unknown to the legislature and the far
| mers of Pennsylvania that among the poorer
classes of Germans and English our common
commercial lard is used in lieu of butter, and
to that oleolnargarine Is as nectar to worm
wood yet they are prepared to prohibit the
manufacture or sale or lard
| LEGIsLATINu AGAINST THE room MAN.
Admitting that they who have bought, or
would buy, oleomargarine, do so in the full
and perfect knowledge that il is that and not
butter or any other thing, they have as good
right to continue to buy it IA the Legislators
and the farmers have to buy their pure
Alderney and Holsten brands. II the poor
who cannot afford to buy butter and must
| buy this admittedly y wholesome substitute or
, go without either, wish TO buy it, the law
, which iorbids them Is as unjust and oppres-
siVe as II is cruel. But 1t Is argued that
oleomargarine is surreptitously used rs AN
I | adultcrant of butter and cheese. So Is fusel
oil used to adulterate the poisonous whisk y
and brandy cocculus lndictis To adulterate
tho poison beer glucose sugar, clay
bread and hundred other things,
to adulterate five score of other things.
o Has the Legislature or the farmer proposed to
5 prohibit tho manufacture or sale of any nc
. | tive poison, or AN aaulterant of any neces-
| sary of life2 DO thew prDpoSe To urOhibit the
sale oi splrituous liquors, poisoning to death
or to crime or pauperism their thousands OF
It victims dmlyH Olcomargarine IL not q
n poison IL IN, on the contrary wholesome
p, article OF food, but unfortunately, as 1t is
cheap, the food OF the poor, and the granger
has set up ms cry against II, which the lcgi5
,, | lature ana governor nave heai kehed TO
ii and in the doing OF which they have beer
it guilty of monstrous folly and wrong whici
D. the supreme court should, and no doubt Will
a DO quick To set right
!, Among the Produce Men.
From the Telegraph.
10 The action of Governor Pattison in signing
10 the bi,l bas-ere.,ea ;ndignation amnm,, IN,
% ,r,,o,ns,Ia ,,,,is,o,, taa,prs =, ,;a
= "hoio'T'io P'o'ia,o'' "eao'' III o'' wy, Mh'
20 have been extensively engaged III exporting
~ and selling the product on commission. Th'
10 bill makes il punishable oiiense for any on
is to have i'm their possession the article in AN,
to .bano af,or mi, next
IL % 49,, y r a., ,.,,,,,.,,.,.;e,.
id vi. Sp"n .. W., ''''''' VI t'" ',
or Irhi Oh Johh D. "orhiah " 'o, 'ico Prcsi
m dent OF the produce exchange, who went t
10 Harrisburg with "A committee of five othe
gentlemen, engaged in the produce eusines
to protest against the governors approval o
the bill, said this morning
ne This law is politics versus justice. Tn
eff action in signing similar act of Legislation
in New York state made him president q
the United States and 1t very likely ha'
some weight win hlni. 1he law reads
| MAINLY that "a school hav rnuII N m prsfa an,