Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-19
AGAINST COMPROMISE
Ex-Governor Heard Discusses the
0leomargarine Cases.
COMMENDS EVENING STARS COURSE
Opinion Expressed That Massachu-
sets Law Should Prevail.
OLEO AND FILLED CHEESE

Ex-Gov. W. D. Hoard of Wisconsin Is
stopping at the Hotel Raleigh. He is a
weli-known agriculturist. is president OF the
National Dairy Union and editor and pub
Usher of Hoard's Dairyman, a publication
devoted to the interests of the manufac-
turers of butter and cheese throughout the
United States.
Il am greatly pleased with the stand The
Star has taken on the oleomargarine ques-
tion." he stated, in converse ton with a
Star reporter, land read with great interest
and entire satisfaction the interview with
Secretary Wilson of the Department Of
Agriculture, under the date of Wednesday,
We are all up in arms against the illegal
sale OF o4eomargarine, and are glad to see
an influential paper take Il hand in the
fight.
The National Dairy Union, of which
am president, was organized in 1888, and
has members all over the country. The
union is composed of dairymen in general
boards or trade and produce exchanges.
1t was organized 20 create legislation, both
state and national 1t was the inspiring
force in the promotion of laws behind the
enactment of the filled cheese provisi IN
passed year ago. The butter fat is eX
tracted in the manufacture of the filed
cheese and the skim milk filled with oleo
Anti-COler Laws.
Last winter the union was Instruments
IN having important laws passed against
oleCmargarine in Illinois and Michigan.
They are known as the anti-color laws and
are similar to the ones which originated in
Massachusetts. These acts forbid the max
ing and selling of airy substitute for but
ter in the yellow color of butter. The Mas
sachusetts. law went through the Supreme
Court and was upheld.
Il know of Wilkins & Co. merely
from hearing of their alleged violations OF
the Geo laws IN the District. In my opin-
ION. the government should not accept a
compromise. penny's worth of conyic-
ton is worth a thousand dollars worth of
compromise.
The Wisconsin law is the same practi-
Cally as the Massachusetts law and also
absolutely prohibits the sale of filled
cheese 1t contains provisions against ali
counterfeit forms of butter and cheese and
Iorbids the sale of oleomargerine in the
yellow color of butter Two states. New
Hampshire and Minnesota. require the
oieomargarine to be colored pink Exceed
lngiy strong and hostile legislation against
oieon1arserine has been had in twenty
three states, and the cause is still moving
Cn-
1T is well-attested scientific fact that
butter melts in the human stomach at
temperature six degrees below the normal
heat of the body, easily passes into pancre-
attic emulsion and digests. The melting
point of o'eo is from 1902 to 10S degrees
As consequence il has to be expelled
as foreign body. with severe gastric ac-
ton.
Oil From Dead Horses,
Some time ago well-known magazine
contained an able article ON the horses of
America. In this it was shown what was
he ,1r-o ~r
city. The writer stated clearly and I'M
equivocally that the oil rendered from
dead horses is sold to oleomargarine fac
tories.
There is no protection whatever to the
consumer in the use of oleomargarine short
of the greed for gain in the manufacturer
ard dealer N the article. With butter it Is
entirely different. 1t advertises its own
quality at once, and no one can be deceived
thereby.
The sworn testimony of Armour & Co.
before the United States district court of
Utica, n. V, showed that it cost United
States tax and all, less than cents a
pound to manufacture the OleCmargarine.
Tie convictions i'll my state under the
state law. were a good illustration of the
state traffic. When our state law was
passed forbi1dins the sale of oleo in the
yellow form of butter. the number OF
United States retail licenses to dealers.
dwindled from one hundred and thirty
three to nine. showing that the dealers
could make but little Roadway in selling
v hen it did not counterfeit butter in color.
There were but few convictions after the
law was passed
COmmends Massa oh usctts Law.
Il should like to see the Massachusetts
law prohibiting the sale of oleomargarine
in the yellow color of butter become gen.
erai IN every state in the Union. There
cannot be national law in the mater,
as the government is not expected to do
police business, but merely to enforce the
revenue laws. When dealers cannot dis
pose of oieomargarine for butter they cam
not sell it at all. When it is in any other
form IL conyicts itself.
Some persons qulDole at the distinction
between colorlng butter and coloring oleo-
margarine. Butter is not colored to repre-
sent something thas is I OF butter. whereas
oIeomargarine is c)lOred to deceive the con-
sumner into believing he is eating butter
when 1t is not. Hence. the difference in the
two propositions. Butter is the same in
flavor whether coored not"
Ex-GOv. Hoard is strongly of the opinion
that no compromise should be made with
oieomargarine offenders, as he thinks moth
ing but convictions where violations have
occurred and the passage and enforcement
of stringent laws On the subject will put
a stop to the nefaricus traffic.