The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-05

GrOut hill Now Pending.
The persistence with which the dairy
ing interests of the country are pushing
on congress the necessity OF new and
more stringent laws regarding the manu-
facture and sale OF oleomargarine is
arousing the Indignation of the vast num-
Der of beef cattle growers and those in
terested with them In this and other
states. Recently formal protest was
sent to congress by the South st. Paul
live stock exchange, and at the same time
protests were sent in from similar bodies
Heated at other marketing points and
from the national live stock exchange,
which embraces in it's membership large
number of the leading live stock men
of the country
| Feb. 10 the G o b printed an inter-
view with ex-Gov. Hoard, president of the
National Dairy union in which he stated
that the Grout bill. now before congress,
would meet the requirements of the dairy
| men. This will provides for a tax Of u
! cent per pound on uncolored oleomar-
garine, and 10 cents per pound on colored
| oleomargarine. In this interview Mr.
Hoard intimates that congressman who
| in no uncertain way.
This interview has called forth the fol-
| lowing letter from w. NJ. Campbell, a
| We'll known commission man at South st.
| Paul, and vice president Of the ma
| tional live stock exchanges:
Hon. Joel P. Heatwole. Washington. D.
half Of the Live Stock exchange, of South
| st. Paul, but of the great mass of farm
! ers OF this state whose cattle find a mar
! ket here and elsewhere an industry that
| Is increasing with surprising rapidity, 1
! beg to submit to you for your considera-
| ton, as the representative In congress Of
| the reasons why the Grout BILL taxing
colored oleomargarine 10 cents q pound,
| should not only not have the support of
| yourself and the other representa- ives
from this state. but should have their OPP
| position. l am moved to this addition to
| the formal protest Of this exchange g.
interview of ex-Gov. Hoard. of Wiscon-
| sin, with its covert threat Of punishment
| at the polls Of those representatives who
! oppose the measure, an argument ad-
dressed not to the reason, but the cow
ardice OF men. l might reply to his
| statement that colored oleomargarine de-
! IN the country who does not for at least
eight months Of the year, use coloring
matter to give his produce the natural
! color obtained from grasses of the pas
| lures during only four months of the
year, and that one is no more a decep-
| ton than is the other l might say that
| In the dairy business are taxed" and
! that, therefore, oleomargarine should be
| taxed, IS without foundation in fact If
/ the herds and the farms that feed them
are taxed, SO are the plants in which a
portion of the products Of those herds are
utilized In making oleomargarine while
on the other hand not single pound of
butter is ever taxed anywhere. If one
product is untaxed why should not the
other be untaXed also?
| While class interests may clamor for
legislation, designed to increase their
profits, the statesman must take account
or the incidence of that legislation espe-
give it effect. You must consider, not alone
who will be helped, but who will be in
1ured. The Grout bill Is class measure
| devised solely ir the interests, not of the
| butter producers, but of that portion Of
them who operate creameries. Fully one
third of the butter made in this state is
| lage store for it's market Against this
| product the creamery managers have al
ready secured hostile legislation in this
state requiring it, when, thanks to mod
ern chemistry. it is relieved of its odors
and Impurities, and made fairly pala-
table article, meeting the needs Of the
tables the product Of the creamery, to
be labeled renovated" adopted and in
| tended as term of odium and repul-
sion.
The inevitable result Of the Grout bill
Will be the destruction of the industry
las Is, un1Gquestionably, its purpose(. I
islation to republican government. its
strong drift towards socialism, to call
your attention to its effect upon the very
farmers in whose interest it is pretended
to be. The farmer VINO sells his milk to
a creamery is necessarily a cattle raiser
! Fully half of the increase Of his herd are
males. His profit from these rests in his
ability to raise. fatten and market them
Statistics Of cattle prices prove conclu-
sively that the average price per head
since utilization of beef stearine in MAX
ing oleomargar1ne, is better So and 81 per
head. Destroy that industry, wipe out
that demand, and that amount will be
taken from the value of every steer and
porportionately from that of every other
beef animal, and that wholly independent
of the fluctuations of price owing to the
changes In the relations of demand and
supply. The destruction of values would
run into the millions annually Is this
alone, not a reaction that should make
you hesitate before yielding to the de-
mands of small class of producers?
| Oleomargarine is not the real rival Of
the creamerymen, and they are very
short sighted In SO regarding and antag-
onizing it. Their real rivals, they who
depress the general level of their prod
ucts. are to be found only amongst
themselves. They are the incompetent
buttermakers, who know little of the art
and nothing of the science of their work:
they are slovenly buttermakers who let
their implements get foul with the milk
sediments that rapidly decay and NOT
only give off color that taints the hut
ter but subject it to conditions that pro-
duce positively unhealthful butter; they
are the parsimonious owners who pay
| wages that no capable buttermal1er wifi
| accept who refuse to supply indictments
| essential to a good product; who to save
little money, refuse to provide drain
| age for the wastes and let them ac-
cumulate about the creamery creating
In their decay, stencil that taints the
| butter with its foul doors Back of the
creamery is the rival on the farm who
produces milk under conditions OF more
or less filth; whose cows sleep In their
| droppings which adheres to their m
ders and falls into the milk; the mixer
who vets his hands in milking and min
giles the moisture with the milk; the
milk roon that adjoins the cellar or the
| kitchen and whose odors the milk alb
serbs; the farmer who empties his milk
cans into the watts at the creamery and
then drives round to the cistern and
pumps them full of the skim milk. nixed
| with the washings of the creamery and
rank with bad smell, TO take home for
the pigs; who fails to steam the cans
| before filling with fresh milk and let's
the seams gather deposits that putrefy
These are the real and only rivals Of
the product of the creamery and To
whom creamerymen and lawmakers paw
little or no attention. And these are
| stubborn facts, the truth of which is at
tested by the reports of inspectors which
| can be found on file in the Office of fhe
| state dairy commissioners, for their re-
| suits are not unknown: the trade knows
them, the general public is beginning to
| know them, and the trade marks down
the price while the consumer becomes
suspicious Of the quality of his cream
| cry butter.
Oleomargarine is not rival or a COM
| petitor among the class of consumers
| to whose custom the creamerymen should
ADDRESS themselves. These would Will
| ingly pay, and are able to paw a much
| higher price for the butter thew mt I,y1o,o