The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-06-29
THE DAIRY UNION.

Z Presents Its Side of the Recent Cases
Brought Under the OleOmargarine Law
Several articles have recently appeared In vari.
rus Columbus papers indicating that recent prose
,utiOns OF the Capital City Dairy Company oil
Columbus, by the dairy and food department OF
he state we're regarded as prosecutions In these
articles the Capital City Dairy Company Is REFER
red 10 as an honorable company engaged in an
and lawful business, the apparent in
tention Of the writers being to arouse the sympa'
thy Of the public in behalf of the company named
and which it is assumed, is heing much abused
Since May 4, 1894 there has been on our statue
books law forbidding the manufacture or sale in
Ohio Of colored oleomargarine. This law was en-
acted to prevent fraud and TO protect consumers
from inferior products colored to initiate butter
that have for 90 long a time been sold us pure
butter 1t is well known that but comparatively
small portion of our people would buy oleomargar-
inc AS substitute for butter knowingly A large
majority of the people Of Ohio prefer pure but
ter to any substitutes or limitations that have
been offered for It, They are entitled to know
when they make their purchases whether they
are buying pure butter or product the CHIEF COM
moment of which is either beef tallow or lard color
ed TO resemble butter. 1t is well known from ex
periepce that, if oleomargarine be coored to re
semble butter, it will IN a majority of cases be
sold as butter to the consumer. 1t is largely sold
TO the consumer Just little below the price for
finest butter, so as to convince the buyer that he
is purchasing fine butter cheap, thus deceiving
him as to the article he buys and at from four to
ten cents per pound above the real value OF oleo-
margarine thus defrauding him in the price he
DAVIS If our law be observed, oleOmargarlne
must be sold in its own color and under lis own
name, and if thus sold no one can be deceived as
to the quality of the article bought nor dcfrauded
in price paid
The Capital City Dairy Company is manufact
uring large quantities of oleomargarine coored TO
resemble butter in violation of law. large pOr-
tion of this product is sold to consumers as Duter
If the Capital City Dairy Company was engaged
IN Mn honorable, lawful business, it would court
investigation concerning the methods of manu-
facture and sale OF ts product instead OF threat
enng to throw into the street officers OF the dairy
and food department who, in the discharge OF
their duties, ask for samples for analysis. If en-
gagged in lawful business 1t would be glad to
have samples analyzed when never suspicion arises
us to the character Of the product daily manu-
fa. turing and selling, until the public becomes
convinced that it is proceeding according to law.
The fact is that this company is daily violating
the law. Almost within the shadow OF the state
house it practically throws down the gauntlet To
the preat state of Ohio, defes the law and threat
ems agents of the dairy and food department with
personal violence if they dare to continue to dis
charge their duties,
The public should clearly understand that the
Capital City Daily company is defying u Just Ia"
and that the public is being deceived IN what II
buys and the price it pays for large portion o
the product manufactured by this concern.
The makers of pure butter in the state have i
right to demand that the monumental fraud now
being perpctrated in the sale of oleomurgarlne D'
stopped Our people who desire to use pure but
ter on their tables have II right to insist that they
he so protected that they know what they are buy
ina If any desire to buy oleomargarine, the!
have right to demand that it be sold in accord
ance with law and on It's merits so tnat they b'
uly advised as to its character and then they Cal
buy it at its real value. The officers OF the dalr
and food department of the state have right u
insist that the oeomMgarine law he observed AM
that they be protected in the discharge of thei
duties from personal violence
No objection is offered to the manufacture an
sale of any amount of oleomargarne provided
be lawfully made and so sold that consumers ma
know what they are buying The objection is
awlcssness shown in the manufacture and decel
tion practiced in the sale of the product.
The complaint of this company because it
compelled to submit to trial for violation of LAY
before justices of the peace outside Of city limit
is childish. 1t has no reason for complaint b'
cause it is not tried before its favorite court.
the Capital Cily Dairy company was not defyin
the law it would be glad to be vindlcated by tri'
anywhere, and preferably where the prosecute
desires the trial to take place, so that its yindic
tiOu might be sure Being guilty, it should +
plead, pay the fine imposed and quit its unlawf
business; but, il it insists upon legal convcto
instead of voluntary confession, there is reaso
in the world why it should be consulted as
place of trial within legal Jurisdiction. Anybod
, who cares to know can easily know that the Cal
, ital City Dairy company is constantly violatiI
the oleomargarine law, and it is the privilege
the prosecutor to bring his cases where he thinl
it more probable that justice can be secured.
careful investigation will convince any cand
man that the statements herein made are correC
In corroboration of the foregoing it may he stat
that on April lS, 1895, after hoty contested tri
lasting two days at billiards, o., the Capital CT
Dairy company was convicted of violation of o
. oleomargarine law and fine imposed. As fl
ther proof the writer will furnish anyone who q
9 sires it copy of testimony given by the manag
: of the company named before Hon. Albert F. S
lers, police justice of Detroit, Mich, on Nov
: 1897, ir which the said manager admitted und
= oath that the Capital City Dairy company mar
4, lactures colored oleomargarine in its factory
:, Columbus and that annatto is used to color t
product. Abundant testimony that the Compa
- named has manufactured colored oleomargari
{ in violation Of law continuously from date abe
y named to the present time can be obtained
h the various markets of Ohio and adjoining stat
/ (. F. WEBSTER
Is President Ohio Dairy Unit
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