Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-10
TO GET GOOD NiILk
An Omaha MiIkman Says Pay Good
Price.

An omana hhkNlan says Iay OOOu
Price.
OMAHA, June 10.-To the Editor of
TIE BEE: What fuss about little
milk! The long article in Sundays
BEE might lead one to think that tor
nado is coming which will sweep away
every cow and milkman in the county
that could not prove up a record of
milky whiteness, if we did not know
that all that is needed to produce
panic in any line of business is a smart
reporter and the never-lacking "testi-
monials." The old saying is male true
agaln-always go away to find out the
news at home. One of the aggrieved,
who claims to always milk his own
cows says: I'VE always supposed it
to be fixed fact that milkmen's milk is
adulterated,' and adds the unqualified
assertion, with not u shadow of evil
dence, 1.-The milk is adulterated. ="
When man talks like that there is lit
tie use to heed what he says, and when
you sift out this element, and a few 9TH
ers who are positively sure that every
devil in hades is or was at some time
milkman, the balance can be reasoned
with.
Tho writer of this desires to testify"
that he has sold milk for twenty-five
years, fully half of that time here in
Omaha; that during all that time not "a
drop of his own production has he
passed to Il customer that he would not
himself drink if need be. Will our ex-
commission man say as much of his
eggs, chickens, fruit, ETC., sold to
Omaha people during his business
years? No one line OF industry includes
all the honesty or excludes all the dis
honesty.
I am not particularly proud of the
motley conglomeration of humanity en-
gagged in supplying this town with that
infantile necessity, milk, yet exhibit b
shows by analysis that at least one
dealer is honest enough to sell above
the standard, and out of the hundred or
more there may be another, possibly
ten, twenty or fifty more who are just
MS square as commission" or any
other man.
People mostly get what they pny for,
and their expectations should be on an
even plane with their outlay. One
would hardly expect to stand before IA
l5-cent lunch counter and get the en-
tertainment of the Paxton.
Cheap things if vociferously demanded
will generally come at som eb0dy' S
hands, but ought the vociferant to
complain if they are cheap all through.
Modern society under our magnificent
electric light system largely fashions
its own members.
Few people, and they are year by
year growing fewer, possess the moral
stamina or social position to line out
course of action and grimly follow it in
the face of all obstacles. The mass
hn,r hai lAI
their thoughts by the to them unresist-
| ing course of events, honest if they can
be, and anyway honest as they can be.
Everybody seeks to get the very best
| things at the very lowest price, and in
| the scramble for business" he who
can fashion cheap thing into the SEM
| blance of n costly one, and make sue
cess of it, is counted smart by the same
crowd who would send him to the gal
| lows or prison DIR. Wood if caught at
it.
To sell milk cheaply, and thereby
| please customers is the front end of this
wall from people who have unwittingly,
| maybe, tolled it on. The moral differ
ence between seller and buyer is mi
| croscopic, and change of places
| would hardly alter the situation.
This may be best shown by facts with
| which all are familiar. Three or four
| years ago some Of our "best citizens
| formed an associatiOn-withp president,
vice president, secretary, manager,
etc, and all the corporate paraphren-
ALA for such things made and provided
to remedy this evil of costly aud vile
milk. With great flourish of trum-
pets a central Office was established,
suggesting an indefinite number OF
branches, wagons were built and num-
bered, and it was given out that the
town was henceforth to be supplied with
delicious cream and butter, sweet and
wholesome milk, and all SO cheap.
The lucky holder of share price
S25l was TO have his pure, sweet and
wholesome milk carefully delivered at a
his door, at the rate Of twenty-five and
half quarts for Sl-the public were in
vited to JOIN, and retire in short order
the deceitiul milkman, and what is the
result?
Their secretary tells the story-skim
skim, skim all the time. Has any
milkman ever treated them worse thar
they treated themselvesl
j This could not be objected TO il only