The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-11-03
OHIO DAIRYMEN.
Action Of the Executive Com.
mittee Of Union
AGAINST ]. E. BLACKBURN,
Reasons Why Pure Food Commissioner
Should Be Defeated.
AGAINST ]. E. BLACKBURN.
VOTERS ASKED TO REBUKE HIM,

John Baker, the Democratic Nominee,
Has Made n Record which Has Been
In tho Interest of Farmers and DairV-
men - Condemnation of the Existing
Abuses Of Dairy and Food Departments
BY n Committee Composed Of Four
Republicans and One Democrat.
The executive committee of the Ohio
Dairy union has issued the following
manifesto to the members OF the union
In Ohio:
The committee, whose testimony Is
here given, is composed Of four hepub-
licans and one Democrat. Their con-
demnation of existing abuses Of official
power in the dairy and food depart
ment and their recommendation to vot-
ers to rebuke these abuses at the polls
by defeating Mr. Blackburn, are strict
ly from nonpartisan motives and for
the highest good Of the dairy interest
Of the state.
For further testimony on the COM
parative records of Mr.. Blackburn and
Mr.. Baker, refer to the Ohio Farmer
(nonparitsan) Of Oct. 6-13-20, which
will be sent free upon application to
the executive committee, Ohio Dairy
union, room 436, Arcade, Cleveland, o.
The dairy and food commission of
Ohio was created at the request of the
dairymen and farmers Of the state, es-
pecially to protect the great dairy in
dustry from dishonest and ruinous
competition of Imitation compounds
sold as the genuine products OF the
dairy.
The dairy industry in Ohio en-
ployes probably $4,000, 900 of capital.
It is an industry Of the farmers, and
every farm home is affected by its pros
perity or depression. Two oleomar-
gerine factories in the state, one at
Columbus and one at Cleveland, in de-
fiance Of law, have been flooding the
markets with their spurious product,
solored to initiate the best butter, sold
rs butter, and placed on the hotel, res
taurant, boarding house and family ta-
bles as butter. Conservative estimates
place the loss to the farmers of the
state in one year, caused by this fraud
ulent competition, at not less Lnan
s1,000000. No wonder that the dairy
interest is depressed! These manu-
facturers of oleo reap large profits. The
business is a bonanza. II furnishes
frauds to prostitute courts OF justice, to
capture political conventions, influence
officers of the law and to. demorslize
public sentiment. Its influence is bale
full in every respect
1T is the duty Of the dairy and food
commissioner to enforce the law. Large
appropriations are annually made for
this purpose, but thus far nothing prac-
tical has been accomplished. The law
can be enforced. Similar laws ars
strictly enforced in other states.
We beg to call your attention es-
pecially to the fact that at many con-
ferences Of the Ohio Dairy union and
Its executive committee with Mr.,
Blackburn the former have urged upon
him at every meeting the necessity of
striking at the root of the difficulty
the factory-and insisted that the law
expressly prohibited the manufacture
Is well as sale, and that this was the
effective place to prosecute. The prom
ise to prosecute the factories SO reluct-
antly made he repeatedly neglected tC
fulfill until finally, under the direc-
ton Of the Ohio Dairy union, through
the special dairy deputy and the spe-
cial attorney which the union had Sc
cured a case was commenced against
the Columbus factory, and was won by
the state. Further prosecutions were
blocked, however, by refusal Of the
factory to give samples. Remedy was
sought in an application for a man.
datory injunction to compel the giving
Of such samples, which was finally de-
cided in favor Of the state. The way
was now clear for further prosecutions,
but at this juncture Mr.. Blackburn
discharged the special deputy and rep
resentative Of the union, and thus
headed off the effective prosecution
against the factories, which he knew
was the intention of the union to push
vigorously.