The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-24
THE DEMAND FOR A MONOPOLY.

be put forth to prevent, by law, the
manufacture of any other article of
cooking fat to compete with theirs.
Having been advised that Congress
has no constitutional power to forbid
the carrying on of any legitimate trade,
they boldly come with a bill expressly
designed for that purpose, but pretend
ing to be a revenue measure. BY this
they seek first to defame a rival COM
modify by assuming the necessity OF
Government surveillance Over it, and
then to tax and regulate" it out OF
the field.
They ask the Government to place
under the ban a pure and healthy
combination of animal and vegetable
products in order to grant a monopoly
for the sale of a substance they call
lard, composed in part of the fat from
offal, sometimes diseased, which every
State'would make it a crime to sell fol
food at all if it it's character was gen
orally known.
They want the taxing power of the
nation employed to sell their lard for
them by the enactment of an Oppres-
sive and outrageous law restricting the
sale of superior article at a less price.
THE IMPURE ELEMENTS IN LARD.
1I0 DIO1IlOG0IS Ol IIllS Ulll dl6 LIlCI1ll-
facturers of what is known to COM
merce as 'Prime Steam Lard" One
of their own witnesses gives the fol
lowing testimony concerning some of
the elements which enter into its man
ufacture. The witness, John {. Hately,
was one of three delegates sent to
Washington by the Chicago Board OF
Trade to represent that body before a
committee of Congress upon the I'M
pOrtance Of expectation of pure lard.
On the 25th of February, 1888, he tes-
titled as follows before the Senate
Committee on Agriculture. There
were present Senators Blair, Sabin,
Bate, and Plumb
Mr.. PLUMB:
20. From what part of the hog do
you get what is called white grease?
A. There is no such thing as white
grease made in the packing-house now.
In the march of events the progress in
packing has been just as great as it has
been in almost any other industry. 1t
has not been a great many years ago
since the whole intrails as they were
taken from the hOg-the greater pOr-
ton of the fat on them-were taken
away, carried out and buried. It has
not been many years ago zinc some
packers on the Mississippi river
thought the head or feet or anything
of that kind was of no value what
ever. They only killed in the winter
time, and one packer remarked to me:
What a fool we were. We had big
profits in those days if we had only
known it. We used to take the head
and feet and CUTS and run them out on
the Mississippi river and pile them up
there, and when the ice broke up in
the SOriOO awaV thew went
20. Then, what was called white
grease now goes into the manufac-
ture of lard-A. Yes, sir. The lard
system is now so entirely different that
we could not make white grease"
30. Then, 1Ubat lUds formerly EnOlCn
as Uhite grease nOIc becomes lard by
the process of manufacture "A. Yes,
sir. 1t never was really white grease
at all. 1t was really only the lard, but
not O. product thdt WOuLd pass inspec-
tiOn." RepOrt of Hearings, p. $780,
There is no conflict in the mass OF
evidence on this subject. It all estab-
fishes the fact that no portion of the
hog is too lOathsOme to be used In
making the precious substance called
prime Steam Lard" which grunts
out to Congress it's demand for the
grant of a monopoly by the enactment
of laws to prevent the competition OF
a clean article.
Not only are all the flthiest parts OF
the hog impressed into the service OF
the lard makers, but the choicest parts
the leaf fat of the animal-cOntain,
ing twenty-eight per cent. OF n whole
of its fat. is sold to the OleOmargarine
makers, and never gets into the
prime steam lard" at all.
There is not an article of food sold
--L:oI -, o-,oo4Or fro771 7InOn %hc
public or which more imperatively de
mands Governmental supervision than
the lard of commerce. 1t IS evidence
that diseased hogs, and hogs smooth.
cred to death in transportation, nave
found their way into pork-packer's
tanks, and come ont prime steam lard.
\ This appears by the testimony of vii
liam G. Bartle, a retired pOrk-packel
inf st. Louis, who testified before the
ouse Committee on Agriculture.
Nch %, 1888. Report of Hearings.
178.)
u~nn the market, for pure lard
an article containing the grease out Of
the offal of a hogs dying from disease.
and then to ask Congress to prohibit
by indirectiOn the manufacture an6
sale of any other sort of cooking fat
than lard, is a wonderful exhibition Of
nerve, and audaclty.
PURITY OF LARD COMPOUND proven
BY IT'S OPPONENTS.
1t being thus shown that lard is moi
always a pure article of food, let us
see what it is that completes with it sc
sharply as to drive it to the expedient
of asking protection from the Govern
ment.
Lard compound is composed of lard
beeffat, and c~ottOn-seed oil. The best
lard obtainable is used, after being
thoroughly cleaned and refined. DR.