Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17
Dairy Farmers Dissatisfied.


The farmers of the Twenty third
senatorial district, which includes a
part of Waukesha and the whole Of
Jefferson county, are very largely en-
gagged in dairying. 1t is their most
Important industry, and they think
1t is entitled to friendly consideration
10y the public authorities. Hence
they are not very we'll pleased with
The denomination OF Mr.. Solliday by
6he Democrats to represent that dis
c5rict in the senate. They regard his
conduct in voting against an appro-
yriation to the State Dairymen's as
ssociation, in the last legislature, as
evidence of his actual hostility to
their interests.
The Republican convention which
nominated Edwin Hurlbut, of Ocono-
wnoWoc, in opposition to Mr.. Solli-
Gay. last week, adopted the following
resolutions:
RESOLVED, That the Republicans of the Twen-
Ety-third senatorial district view with alarm
she gradual encrOachment of the oleOmargar-
me fraud upon the great dairy interests of our
state, and we denOunce it as a counterfeit
and cheat in any form in which it may exist,
and we pledge that the nominee OF this con-
-yentiOn will use his most strenuous efforts, if
elected, to pass law which shall compel the
fraud to stand in its own color before the
consumer.
The earnings of the dairy farmers Of this
esena tOrial district amount to fully two mil
lions OF dOllSr RS 11ually, and we demand that
1cl, n 7s,-sI
not a greater friend to a Wisconsin industry
Than q Chicago fraud
Resolred. That the progress of the dairy in
s1uStry in this state is due very largely to the
persistent efforts of the Wisconsin Dairy
mems association, which has done most
mobile work for over twenty years in the pro-
motion OF dairy knowledge among our peo-
Eole. and no appropriation Of the state legis-
4ature has brought such benefcent returns
As that made to this association.
We charge that Senator SOlliday, the Demo
cratic candidate for state senator in this dis
3rict IN his refusal to vote for such N apprO-
5prlatIOn IN the last legislature showed plain
~ that he was stupidity ignorant or had no
sympathy whatever with the dairymen of
This district, and that in this as in many
other particulars he has proven himself to be
an unfit representative of the people of the
-Twenty-third senatorial district and the great
material Interests of our people.
These resolutions were fully ap-
proved by Mr. Hurlbut, who, if elect
ed, will be as active in supporting the
dairy interests as his opponent has
been negligent of or hostile to them.
The farmers are not demanding that
the manufacture and sale of oleOmar-
garine shall be prohibited. What
they ask is that it's manufacture and
sale shah be so regulated that it may
DE sold and consumed for what it
really is and not for genuine butter.
Any person who wishes to purchase
and to use oleomargarine should be
at liberty to do SO. but it should not
be fraudulently palmed off upon the
people as real butter. Then it is a
fraud upon the consumer and upon
the farmer whose product it sup
plants.
The dairy farmers have also serious
ground for complaint against the pre-
sent state administration which keeps
IN Office, as assistant food commits
sioner, q man who is himself engaged
N the manufacture of bogus cheese.
TO set a man thus to protect the
public against authorizations of food
who is himself employed in adulter-
alton is like hiring a burglar to guard
2zaiuables. Bogus cheese like bogus
sbUtter diminishes the market for the
genuine article, imposes upon the con-
@sumer, and Injuries the dairy farmer
10y giving a bad reputation generally
ITO the cheese of the state where the
fraudulent imitation is produced
Mllwdukee Sentinel.