Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-08-17
AND OLEOMARGARINB
His Agricultural Lyrics of n Dreary
Seventeen Years.

They Have Kept OleO ON the Market
FOR All these Years---WII They Never
Cease to Give the Poor Farmers II
Restl
From the Rutland Herald Wednesday, Aug. l5l
"The Record of William w. Grout" has
appeared with the imprint of the Gale
DOMAIN company, ST. Johnsbury. The
record in question was made in the nation
al House of Representatives and is put ont
with an idea of influencing the voters of
the state to support the General for United
States senator. He has been II years in
Congress, and all his legislative acts ept-
omized in this So page pamphlet make
showing which his friends believe will win
for him the senatorial prize.
We think that Gen. Grout is beaten
man There are things in the Grout pam
phlet, however, that will commend him to
those who appreciate the quality of per
sistent devotion to an ideal. Zeal even
without knowledge has its admirers. Gen.
Grout has record against oleomargarine
which is Il years long. He has not been
able to write his views on the table of the
laws, but he expects to. SO he did
dozen or more years ago. Grout up to
date has been the under dog in the cleo
margarine fight, and some little sympathy
will be generally accorded him from that
fact. The anonymous author of the
Grout "Record" hits OFF the same idea in
an account of discussion of District of
Columbia school board bill which Grout
supported, when he said;
In the course of his [Grouts remarks
on this subject he gave expression to this
sentiment, which we suspect is new. We
do not recall ever having seen ii before:
am for the under dog in the fight,
Unless the upper dog is clearly right.
Well, that is thoroughly Grouty propo-
sition. You know where Grout stands
unless the other fellow has the right of it.
! CIRCUITS ELECTROMAGNETIC cause for II
years has been the under dog, and we
know from his own declaration that he is
against oleUmargarine "unless the upper
dog is clearly right" 1t is perfectly sim
pie when you understand it.
The compiler of the Grout "Record"
makes quotations from the Generals
speeches upon various public questions,
and he does it in such a way as to show
conclusively how CIRCUITS influence was
felt in the halls of legislation. For ex-
ample, the compiler remarks in reference
to CIRCUITS part in the Geneva award
debate: "Gen. Grout made an argument
occupying six pages of the official record
on the subject of the Geneva award. This
was an elaborate presentation of the equit-
able and legal rights of certain claimants
and indicated mostthorOugh examination
and acquaintance with the subject. The
speech begins on page 1899 of the record
of this session, and will prove of much in
terest and value to the historical student.
The bill passed the House in precisely the
form Gen. Grout advocated it. Thomas
B. Reed had charge of it,"
AT first thought it seems incredible
that six pages of Grout had no effect upon
the bill but Mr. Reed had charge of it
and CIRCUITS advocacy did no harm.
The same thing cannot he said of the
oleomargarine bills which from time to time
have come up in Congress. CIRCUITS cruel,
persistent, heartless advocacy CT them has
made the oleomargarine tax the most long
winded under dog we know Of His with
ering support of the oleo bills has been
the despair of all dairymen. There was
no Thomas b. Reed to take charge of the
proposed legislation, and so it was not
passed "precisely in the form Gen. Grout
advocated it,"
Gen. Grout supported the oleomargarine
tax bill of 1886. 1t did not pass, and why ?
We cannot tell. No man ever favored the
under dog with more energy than Grout
did. His speeches were little short of ag-
ricultural lyrics. Let us sample one OF
them. In a speech on the nature of cleo
margarine as detailed in letters patent for
making it Gen Grout said in Congress in
1886;
There can be no certainty of the parent
age of the child in this patent; and lest
the wondering stomach may find some
worse formula for the manufacture of an.
gels, it takes down volume % aud looks
hopefully for the pedigree of its particular
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173: THE process consists in first form
ing a soap emulsion of the fats and fatty
oils with caustc soda; then precipitate the
lyes; then applying chlorinated alkaline
lye or chlorinated gas, to the soap emulsion
as described" But this formula is found
to be so full of lyes Qies) and sounds sc
mnch like recipe for making soap thai
the beWildeTed stomach abandons the in
quiry, declaring in tones of establishment
that oleomargarine is, indeed, the mystery
of mysteries, far profounder mystery thar
hash and sausage. Laughter.
We are not bit surprised that certain
Vermont papers have compared favorabl!
the eloquence of Grout with the efforts o
} Morrill, and Edmunds. But the oleomarga
= rine bill did not become law. Grout sup
ported it. There is the hitch. So uni
formly have the oleo bills favored b!
Grout been killed off that we almost fea
that the manufacturers of this cOmmodit,
have taken out insurance policies on hi