Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-14
SPEAKING OF BUTTERINE.
What tho General Government Loses An
nual1y on the Article From Pennsyi-
yania AIone-A Manufacturer Talks.

What tho General Government Loses An
nual1y on the Article From Pennsyi
vania AIone-A Manufacturer Talks.
Colonel L. " Stone, of Chicago, who il
we'll known in Pittsburg, went to Phila
delphia last night on the last line. Colone
Stone is manufacturer of butterine, ant
before his return to Chicago he will go t.
Washington and will appear before Con
gressional Committee to protest against the
passage of the Crisp bill regulating the
manufacture of butterine. The Crisp bill
| in Congress proposes to give to each State
in the Union the right to deal with the man.
ufacture of spurious butter just as 1t sees fit.
Colonel Stone said:
This measure would kill our business en-.
| tirely. 1t would drive all the legitimate
manufacturers out of the business and it
would give the field to what in the revenue
service is known as moonshiners. At pres
ent many States are struggling with the
question of how to deal with our business.
In Virginia, for instance, where they are
legislating on the question, some practical
joker proposed that all butterine sold
within the limits of that State should be col
ored bright pink. The joke was
accepted in earnest, and now every
pound OF the article that is legally sold
the Gs S5d's is beSs nrS onT
the stuff colored pink, but it is sent into the
State in pink packages. Ohio is now en-
deayoring to have the Virginia law adopted
in that State, and the politicians out there
are fighting their battles on the question OF
pink or yellow butterine. Strange as 1t may
seem, it begins to look as though the pink
fellows would win ont, and we will, no
doubt, be compelled to tinge our Ohio sales
just as we tinSe the output we send to Vir-
gina.
there the Legislature contemplares forcing
us to give our product some peculiar color
by which it will be readily known, but they
have not yet decided upon the color they
every State in the Union if the Crisp bill be-
comes law. The question of the making
of butterine is not the all important one
that is at the bottom of the Crisp bill 1t is
the long step it takes in the direction OF
State rights and the question of butterine
seems only the opening wedge to secure to
each State all the rights desired or required.
"How does the oleomargarine law oper-
ate i'll Pennsylvania ?" was asked.
1t doesn't operate at all. 1 have recently
had a consultation with Internal Revenue
Commissioner Mason on the subject, and 1
am thoroughly convinced that the general
Government is losing annually not one cent
less than 100000 through the State law
Pennsylvania. We eat butterfne in Pitts
burg every day, and, as surprising as it may
seem, was to-day in a butter store where
they sell absolutely nothing but pure
than a dozen people called and
asked for butterine. They refused to
buy the pure butter Tor the same price that
they can buy the butterine, as they argued
that the pure butter got strong before they
used it. This is one reason why they cannot
prohibit the sale of the manufactured
article, and for the same reason the general
Government is losing q fortune annually by
forcing legitima te and la wful dealers out of
the business, and giving the field to the
moonshiners and illegal jobbers.