Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-27

A Reply 10 she Article OF "yastice.''
To the Editor of the Dispatch

While We are 30 deeply interested in
the inquiry what we shall drink, may !
have small space in your paper as to
"what We shall eat" When upon q
sick bed--from which ] have recently
risen--I read in your paper commune
cation headed rs this is, and signed
Justice" in which "Justice" UNDER
takes to advise "our (his) country
cousins" and states that "the art Of
mixing seems to be empirical " with
them, and closes with the following
"a large percentage Of our mountain
rolls and other grades SO much sought
by our city denizens which come to
US directly from the rural districts, are
nothing but mechanical compounds Of
hogs fat, tallow, and other qualities OF
inferior grease"
The plain English Of this is that the
mountain rolls and other grades Of but
ter which come directly from the rural
districts, and sold by your commission
merchants and grocers, and consumed
by your citizens as food, are nothing
more than a mechanical mixture Of hogs
lard, tallow, and other qualities Of in
ferior grease-in short, are frauds
and cheats, known to be such
by the makers lin the rural
districts), and, as a fair inference,
equally as we'll known to be such by
the merchant and the grocer who sells
them for butter. | take it that no man
will make this statement unless armed
abuDdaDtly with proof to sustain it. AS
one from the rural district whose butter
is regularly sold in your market | call
upon "Justice +" to produce his proof.
And further :: AS such fraue are pun
isbable, to furnish to the city prosecuting
attorney mir. Witt the proof, that
your people may be protected from their
repetition.
Again: The product Of my dairy is
shipped regularly to your city and sold
by one firm to your citizens. Itreached
last year over two thousand pounds,
and will much exceed that quantity the
present year. 1t is all sent in cases, with
my name conspicuously stamped, so that
"Justice" can easily find 1t and the
house to wbichit is consigned. If"Jus-
tice," by analysis or any other means,
will discover any foreign matter, except
a little salt, in any sample Of my butter,
or any matter not the product Of
cows milk, | will make him a present
of pedigree Jersey.
Ny butter is the product Of cows
milk. 1t is honest butter, and the
merchants who sell it have repeatedly
refused to handle any other than honest
butter. And what | here state as to
my butter and the merchants who han
die it l believe applies to all Of the
farmers and farmers wives from the
"rural districts" who send the pro-
ducts Of their diaries to your city, and
to the merchants and grocers generally
Of your city.
1t has been but a short time since
700 grocers of the city of New York
met in convention and unanimously re-
solved that they would not have any
thing to do with L" bogus buffers
This may be in part the reason why
"Justice has encountered Of late so
much Of the " mechanical compound Of
hogs fat, tallow, and injurious grease"
Are the grocers Of Richmond less fair
honorable, and just than those of New
York? | for one must ask proof, not
mere assertion, by Justice" else my
answer will be, loudly, No.
Again Perhaps " Justice has been
looking into the Patent Office Of the
United States and there discovered that
the patentees of "bogus buffers " have
patented q compound such as he has
described of hogs fat, tallow, and
other grease" treated with "nitric
acid " and other acids so strong that by
their contact woody fibre is destroyed.
Fatal must be such acids TO eae delicate
digestive organs Of man-peculiarly so
when taken as daily food.
Again Perhaps "Justice" is not
ignorant of the fact that there is not a
factory at which bogus butter is made
south of the Potomac; that all Of the
bogus-butter factories are in the north
ern, northwestern, and western States,
and located near large cities, where
hogs fat and grease can be easily OBJ
tanned that at Chicago is the largest
factory in the world.
IoIIN WACUTNnrnN
Woodford post-oiiice, Caroline county,