The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08
WAR ON ALL B%UTTERINE.
National Dairy Union Intends 80
Drive 1t from Il Land,

"BWtterine must be legislated out cf
the United States is the dictum of nhe
National Dairy Union. The successful
hght FOR the { anti-butterine law in Hi
noIs has inspired the dairymen of the en-
tire West to crush and utterly annihilate
the butter substitute industry. They are
gong INTO politics to DO it.
Right now the creamery proprietors, the
butter dealers and the dairy farmers of
tne big butter producing States-WiscOn-
SIN, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota,
Nebraska, Kansas. Michigan and the Da-
GotaS-are being drawn into Il compact
h@ntIng organization of not less than 800
0OO. Il maybe more than 100000 vot-
ers and vote controllers. They are being
pledged i'll writing to work increasingly for
legislation that wiz prevent the coloring
OF butter substitutes and ito fight the men
IN high places who are unfriendly to the
interests of the dairymen." e
of money contributions go
with the pledge. A campaign fund which
would delight the heart of a professional
politician is already in sight. If neces-
sary, a fighting capital of S1,000,OO can
be raised, it is believed, before the Legis-
latureS of these dairy States meet again.
This fund will be used to drive the but
terine manufacturers from their few re-
naming sJrongholds. and if the industry
then find loopholes in State legislation.
the organization will move on Washing
ton.
". D. Hoard, former Governor of Wis
%consin, and president of the National
Dairy Union, is giving the movement all
the beneit of his organizing ability and
political Charles y. Knight of
Chicago, secretary of the National Dairy
Union and manager Of the anti-butterine
fight in the Illinois Legislature. is secre-
tary and treasurer of the new movement.
The dairymen have already done much
to restrict the manufacture Of butter sub
stltuteS, c0lOred to resemble the genuine
Galry article. Laws prohibiting the col
oflhG OF such substitutes are now in force
III illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
Nebraska, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania
and New York. But there are two States
IN particular which have no such laws
and which are favorably situated with
respect to the packing centers and the
sources of raw material for the manufac-
ture of Observation-Disclosures and Kansas.
'+'NS II ND htI lOI tlt CC4OIcu oIJlCiC
IS unrestricted, except in these few West
ern States which have legislated on the
subject, enough butterine can be made in
Indiana and Kansas to cut a big figure in
the butter trade of the country. The
expect, therefore, that the but
ter1ne makers will make a hard fight ia
retain their standing in Indiana and Kan
sas, n even to have rescinded the anti
butterine legislation in some of the other
Hence the broad scope of the
movement to complete the an
utilization of their enemy.
The National Dairy Union is building
up its fighting organization around the
creamerieS. There are nearly 1900 of
these in the north Mississippi valley. Each
creamery has OF an average 100 farmer
patrons, or 100000 in all. The price paid
by the creameries to these farmers for
their milk is regulated by the price of
The extinction of competition
butterine raises the price of butter
and therefore of milk. 1t follows that all
these 100000 farmers are expected to be
for enlistment in a last rally against
butterine.
The farmers who work up their milk
into buttefin their own dairies outnumber
those who sell to creameries. They are
expected to take an interest in this move
The same view is held of the farm
ers who Ship milk to the cities. the price of
their product being influenced always by |
price it will bring at the creameries.
Then there are the creamery operators
and their employees, and the men who
butter in the big cities, the COM
mission men-all these are Interested in
one way and another in boosting butter
md killing butterine. This indicates why
the active spirits of the National Dairy
mon are figuring ON a political army of
l'OVo,oOO men or more. The movement
$ being given the widest publicity through
1he dairy press. 'Butterine must be leg
out of the country is the war cry,