The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-09
BUTTERINE.

BUTTERINE.
! The butterine question now before
Congress is absorbing the attention OF
dairymen throughout the entire country.
They are anticipating through it the re-
lief they so much need.
The magnitude of this butterine fraud
apd The stupendous burden the dairy
men are carrying is evidenced in the
vast quantities of this counterfeit stuff
sold in the open markets for genuine
butter. We alluded in former issue of
the UNION to the gigantic scale on which
this business is being conducted in Chi
cage, that city receiving during the year
ending in 1885, 100000 pounds of
butter, and shipping 100000. 1t
is estimated that Chicago consumes Is
900, 600 pounds of butter, which shows
that no less than 100000 pounds of
oleomargarine was manufactured and
sold in Chicago last year for genuine
butter. This city alone has a greater
manufacturing capacity for oleomarga-
rine than the combined output of all the
creameries in Illinois and Wisconsin.
The righteousness of this business con-
sists in the manufacturers placing their
commodity on the market as genuine
butter, thus swindling the consumers
and forcing dairymen to place their but
ter for sale in competition with this
fraudulent product.
Now it is evident that dairymen can
not sustain themselves as long as their |
business is menaced by counterfeit but |
ter. The highest grades of creamery
butter cannot be made and sold at any |
profit to the manufacturer for less than
30 cents a pound, while the highest
grade of butterine can be made and sold |
at profit at 10 cents a pound. And I
when We consider that this butterine is
sold for genuine butter, it is easy enough
to understand how its manufacture and
sale Injuries the dairymen. Every tub
of counterfeit butter sold must of neces-
slty take the place of tub of genuine
butter. Thus the markets being glutted
with fraudulent imitation, destroys the
demand for the genuine article, and
forces prices down below the cost of pro-
duction.
In recent conversation with Mr.. Seth
Doan he made the remark, CT believe
butterine has come to stay" In this I
concur but I want it to stay as butter.
inc, not butter. 1t is claimed by the
Of this bogus butter that
it is no nauseating compound, but pal
atable condiment worthy to tickle the
palate of any millionaire. TO be sure
we have heard it intimated that all the
'mothered hogs that 60 into Chicago are
in its manufacture, and we
nave seen its illustrated analysis by the
editor of the Western Rural, in which ]
and bacteria were as prom
nent as fifer's eye after a hard days t
slow. Yet one chemist testified before J
The Senate committee that its harmful /
1ess could not be determined by chemi-
,al analysis, and it has been proven that
he rendering of fats for this counterfeit
butter has to be done at such low
that if the fats are diseased '
he spores are not destroyed. Many of
the obscure, mysterious and fatal
diseases that affiict our modern civiliza-
ion no doubt are generated by adulter-
tied food put on the markets by UNI
'crupulous dealers. The laws of Eng
and and France are more stringent on
God authorizations than in the United
States. The penalties are heavier and
more effectively enforced.
Butter is the natural product of the
low, and as essential to the comfort of
civilization as our modern houses. 1t
las graced the table of kings from time
and to-day is consumed
BY ignobles as we'll as mobiles.
To protect its manufacturers and con
;umers is the origin of the present bill
before Congress. The provisions of the s
Dill are comprehensive and efficient, and !
f it becomes a law it will place the man
lfacture and sale of butterine on its own
merits, and put dairymen in fair and
ust competition with imitation butter
The bill enforces license of $500 on
of butterine and cents
. pound on all bogus butter produced
! license of $3.50 on wholesale dealers
ind tax of $48 on all retail dealers of
butter. Now we believe if the
dill becomes law that it is exacting
Ind comprehensive enough to satisfy the
most exacting dairyman.
We were surprised tt see dairyman
If r. F. Roberts reputation take the
stand that it was unequal and unjust of
Congress to impose tax on butterine or
On counterfeit butter. As sheep man
We never heard Mr.. E. complain of the
injustice of Congress placing a tariff on
ioreign woods or of imposing a tax on
obacco or all alcohol beverages, al
,hough it is conceded by all high tariff
champions that taxing one industry is
ior the purpose of helping counter en-
terprise, and that all these taxes in the
end have to be paid by the consumers
Of the articles taxed. Wool is about as I
necessary an article of civilization as
outter, and if it is not unconstitutional
20 levy tax on It's importation, how
hen can it be unequal or unjust to inn
pose tax On counterfeit butter? The
AK of five cents per pound on butterine
md the money raised on licenses to
and sell bogus butter will
be the means of supporting the machin-
cry to protect the dairyman in his inalien-
able rights. Without the taxing pro-
visions of the bill the legislation would
all as dead letter on counterfeit butter
and dealers.
]. B. JACKSON.