The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-21
DISHONEST AMERICAN CHEESE.
Injurious Effect Produced Upon
Trade by Interruptions Methods.
From the Indianapolis Journal.


From the Indianapolis Journal.
Washington dispatches state that W. A.
Mcknight, an English commission mer-
chant, and a member of the chambers of
commerce OF Liverpool and Manchester, is
now in Washington to lend his influence
toward bringing about legislation to stop
the expectation of filed cheese from the
United States for sale in Great Britain as
pure cream cheese. Americans should feel
Inundated that business man has come
all the way from Great Britain to teach
them that honesty is the best policy. and
to show them how an important branch of
American trade has been almost destroyed
by short-sighted greed and rank dishon-
esty. This is practically the effect of the
message which this British merchant
brings regarding the decline of the Ameri-
can cheese trade in Great Britain. He
does not profess to be actuated by unset
fish motives, nor by a desire to promote
American interests. 1t is because he ham
dies American cheese and wants to make
as much money out of the business as nos
sible that he desires to have the trade re-
stored to its former status. He tells MEM
bers OF congress, and his statements are
borne out by official statistics, that in the
last seventeen years the exports of cheese
from the United States have fallen off AO
n
creased In almost the same proportion. In
1873 the exports Of cheese from Montreal
were $4,000 boxes and the exports from
New York were 2,775, 500 boxes In 1895 the
exports from New York were 100000 boxes
and from Montreal 2,14S, S54 showing an al
most exact reversal of the conditions -
exports in the two countries
This practical destruction OF an imnor-
tant branch OF American trade and its
transfer to Canada is due to the exporfa-
ton OF what Is called filled cheese az
cream cheese and its fraudulent sale ne
such' Filled cheese is made from oils and
fats and skinned milk and bears about
the same relation to cream cheese tbst
oleomargarine does to pure butter the
fraud consists In selling il under n faise
name as genuine article ACCORDING 10
reports OF the agricultural departrnant
about D,OOO0 pounds of filled cheese are
made annually In the United States. near
~ an OF whlch Is sold as cream cheese It's
manufacture Is not permitted In Canada
at all Hence Canadian cheese has come 80
the known abroad as the pure article while
American cheese Is largely a Fraudulent
product. The result is the foreign demand
for American cheese has fallen ar 81 ,a,
cent, while that for Canadian cheese has
increased increased IN the same proportion. This in
NoiVes loss 10 American farmers ~
about $l5,mO.0O year in the ifen, -
cheese alone, not to speak OF the loss an
national reputation from selling imits.
ton goods under fraudulent name A biii
to stop this fraud. which has proved 60
injurious to the dairy interests OF tho
country, passed the house at the first ses-
sion or the last congress b,rt n xgo. Nj.
up and finally strangled IN The sena,o
where so much wholesome Legislation
fails The measure should be revived snd
passed. The country needs foreign trade
but It should be first OF all honest trado