Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-12
Important to the Dairynen Of Wis
c0nSin.

Qd1fyQGn OF Wisconsin by MI. 4.
H. Everett, President of the State
Dairymen's Association, marks an
era in the dairy history of the
state. At last this great interest
has grappled with the question Of
its own existence, and proposes, if
necessary, to enter the arena Of
politics. This is to be done, not
in party sense, for the dairymen
belong to all parties, but in way
that will convince all party
managers that this great interest
must be Loyalty dealt with. The
causes which have led to this
action have been talked and written
about for years. They may be
briefly enumerated as follows:
I. The great increase of the sale
Of counterfeit butter.
?. The political activity and
insolence of the great capitalistic
interest which lies behind this
fraud and counterfeit.
3. The almost total destruction
of the market for honest butter
and cheese in the mines and
lumber regions Of Northern Wis
consin and Michigan.
4. The fact that the oleomarga-
rine influences of Chicago have
been at work for years bribing
some of the leading politicians in
the Republican and Democratic
parties to work for the suppression
of all legislation calculated to
protect the manufacture and sale
of honest food products. To such
an extent has this gone right here
in Wisconsin, that it is we'll under
stood that the present Assistant
Dairy and Food Commissioner,
who is a self confessed filled cheese
manufacturer, was appointed to his
place at the instigation of the
Oleomargarine interest. He has
served his masters well, and
deserves the execration and con-
tempt Of every honest dairyman
and consumer in the state.
The dairymen have at last
become aroused and at the last
meeting Of the Wisconsin Dairy
mems Association, a permanent
committee on legislation was
appointed. To promote the work
Of that committee President Everett
has issued his address. 1t simply
appeals to every dairy farmer and
creamery and cheese factory owner
in the state to make use of the
political forces about him to
protect his own business existence.
Til high time that every farmer
as we'll as every consumer was
aroused to an understanding Of
the political debauchery and wicked
conspiracy against their interests
which this oleomargarine combine
is responsible for. When it can
keep leading politicians of both
parties in its employ, when it can
control the Dairy and Food
Commissioner of the state; when it
keeps lobbyists, with $4,000 in
hand, at Madison to defeat needful
and practical dairy legislation of
the state; when it conspires to ruin
the most prosperous agricultural
industry we have, and destroy its
market; when it has influence
enough to make Senators and
Congressman Indifferent to the true
interest of their own state; when it
can do all this in the interest of a
fraud and a counterfeit, it is time
that every honest man stood up
and said to the men who seek his
vote, "HoW do you stand on this
oleomargarine question:"
That it has done and is doing all
this we candidly aver.-Hoard's
Dairyman.
The congressional convention
for the 9th district will be held at
Merrill on the 9Th Of August.
/ The contest in that district has
been Of the quiet, orderly kind, as
might have been expected with
such candidates as Governor
Samuel S. Fiheld, ex-senator NJ.
1 G RinU and Mr. Alexander