The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-04
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Enforcing the Michigan oleo. Law. II
The Dairy and Food Commissioners,
In q report says: The law as it now
stands on our statute book provides:
That no person, BY himself or his
agents or servants, shall render or.
manufacture, sell. offer for sale, expose
Tor sale, or have in his, possession with
intent to sell. any article, product or
compound made wholly or in part out
Ct any fat, oil or oleaginous substance;
or compound thereof. not produced
from adulterated milk or cream from
the same, which shall be in imitation
OF yellow butter produced from pure
unadulterated milk or cream from the
same: Provided, that nothing in this
act shall be construed to prohibit the
manufacture or sale of oleomarEarine
in separate and distinct form, and in
such manner as will advise the con-
sumer OF its real character, free from
coloration or ingredient that causes it
to look like butter" ,-~
The statute does not prohibit the
manufacture or sale of all oleomargar-
inc. but only such as is colored in i'm
itation of yellow butter, produced from
pure unadulterated milk or cream from
the same. If free from celebration or
Ingredient that causes it to look like
BUTTER" the right to sell it Gin sep
arate and distinct form and in such
manner as will advise the consumer
Of its real character is neither re-
stricted or prohibited. The statute
simply seeks to suppress false pre-.
lenses and to promote fair dealing in
the sale of an article Of food. COM
polling the sale Of olemargarine for
what At really is and preventing the
sale for what it is not. We believe
that the state, in the exercise Of its
police powers, may protect the public
against the deception and fraud that
would be involved in the sale within
its limits for purposes of food of a
compound that had been so prepared
as to make it appear to be what 1t was
not.
AS has been held by the United
States supreme court, IF there be any
subject over which it would seem the,
states ought to have plenary control,
and the power to legislate in respect
to which, it ought not to be supposed,
was intended to be surrendered to the
general government, it is the protec-
ton OF the people against fraud and
deception in the sale of food products.
Under the policy Of the department in
the administration OF the dairy and
food laws, as sustained by our supreme
court, every dealer is held strictly re-
spons1ble for, the character Of the
goods he sells, without regard to
whether he knows them to be adul-
terated or not, and a guarantee of
purity received from the manufacturer
or jobber will not relieve him from
chat liability. Until a court of COM
petent jurisdiction declares the anti
color oleomargarine statute unconsti-
tutional we shall strictly adhere to the
above rule in our efforts to accomplish
the results intended by its enactment.
In the administration of the affairs of
the department, we do not believe it
our province to ignore any law on the
statute books with the enforcement
OF which we are charged, and in pur-
suing the policy above set forth we
adopt the only course open for the
proper conduct of the duties Of the
Office. 80.