The herald., 1897-06-20
Rouses the Dairy Men to
Action
ARE GOING INTO POLITICS
TO CRUSH THE oLEoMARGAR-
INE INDUSTRY
Western Dealers and Producers Com
bine, and Expect Aid From the
Farmers Of the Country
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
CHICAGO, June ia special to the
Times-Herald from Fort Atkinson, Wis,
says: "Butterine must be legislated out
OF use," is the Motum Of the Nations al
Dairy Union. The successful fight for the
anti-butterine law in Illinois has in
spircd the dairy men of the West to
crush the butter substitute industry.
They are going into politics to- do it,
Right now the creamery proprietors,
the butter dealers and the dairy farm
ers OF the big reproducing States
Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Min
nesota, Nebraska Kansas, Michigan and
the Dakotas-are being drawn into a
compact fighting organization of not less
than 100000, and may be more than
100000, voters and Cte-controIlers.
They are being pledged in writing to
work increasingly for legislation to pre-
vent the c0loring of butter substitutes
and to fight the men in high places who
are unfriendly to the interests of the
dairy men.
II necessary. a fighting capital of
$1,000. 900 can be raised, it is believed, be-
fore the managers of these dairy States
vote again. These funds will be used to
drive the butterine manufacturers from
their strongholds, and if the industry
fiEds any loophoies in State legislation,
the opposition will move on Washington.
W. d. Hoard of this city, formerly
Governor of Wisconsin, and President of
the National Dairy Union, is giving the
movement all the benefit of his organ
Using ability.
Charles Y. knight of Chicago, Secre-
tary of the National Dairy Union and
manager Of the anti-butterine fight ir
the Illinois Legislature. is Secretary anG
Treasurer of the new movement.
The National Dairy Union has nearly
1000 creameries in the Northern Missis-
eippi Valley, and around these the union
IS building UP it's fighting organization.
Each creamery has on an average 100
patrons, or 100000 in all. The price paid
by the crameries to the farmers for
their milk is regulated by the price of
butter. AS a distinction of competition
with butterine raises the price of milk
1t is expected the 1000 farmers will
rally against the butter substitute. The
farmers who work up their milk into but
tcE III lueiI OWN OulGumDer
those who sell to creameries. They are
expected to take an interest in this
movement. The same view is held of
the farmers who ship milk to the cities,
their product being influenced always by
the price it brings at the creameries.
Then there are the creamery operators
and their employees and the men who
handle butter in the big cities. the COM
mission men-all these are interested in
one and another means of boosting but
ter and killing butterine. This indicates
why the active spirits of the National
Dairy Union are figuring on political
army of 100000 men or more The
creameries are doing the enlisting.
Every such institution throughout the
butter-producing States of the West is
being supplied with enrolment blanks
to be signed by their farmer patrons.
These pledge themselves, as indicated,
to work for anti-butterine legislation
and "to fight the men in high places
who are unfriendly to the dairy men,"
The signer also authorizes the cream
cry manager to deduct % cents month
from his bill as contribution to the
campaign fund. This fund will in a short
time, it is thought, amount to 81 900, 900.