The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-12
ART In BUTTER COLOR
OLEo ADVOCATES WANT TO KEEP
THE cow PRODUCT FROM
ADDED HUES
NEW LETTER TO HEATwOLE
They Insist That, If OIeO Shall Not
He COlOred, Then Artificial Col
OrinE Matters in Butter Must
He Placed Under the BAN.

| w. NJ. Campbelrs letter to Congress-
man Heatwole which appeared in the
| G o b a week ago. was considered by
the stockmen generally as a clean and
concise statement of the reasons why the
| Circuit bill, which Is now before congress,
and which proposes a 10-cent tax on col
ored oleomargarine, should be killed.
Cattlemen were of the opinion that the
letter would bring out a statement from
the datryng interests, but they are in
| clined to think that Assistant Dairy Com
missioner White evaded some of the
more serious points in his interview
which appeared in a recent issue OF the
| Clio be-
This interview has called out another
letter from Mr. Campbell to Congressman
Heatwole. which is as follows:
Following my letter of recent date, there
! appeared in the daily papers Of this city
missioner White. of this state. Mr..
| Whites particular branch of work, in
| connection with the commission, Is with
| the dairy, or might more accurately say,
| the creamery interests. l thus discrimi-
nate between the dairy and the creamery
! interests because they are distinct, as so
| large a percentage of the dairy butter
! goes. as 1 said In my former letter. from
! the farms to the village stores. Mr..
! White is reputed to be a good creamery
man. as we'll as an honest and capable.
| view is the creamery, and so intense is
| his interest in that industry that he is
| insensible to the injury done to others,
| persons or industries, by measures de-
! signed solely for the benefit of his par
| ticular class.
1t is the official position of Mr. White
! that makes his attempted defense of the
legislation sought by the creamery inter-
csts worthy Of reply, for 1t must be as
sumed that the officials of his department
have thoroughly considered the argu-
mentS made in my letter to you, and that
this IS the best answer they can make.
You will observe. that they ignore en-
tirely the effect of the Grout bill upon
the market value of all beef cattle; and
they pass by i'll panied silence my ex-
posuTe of the real rivals of creamery but
ter, their own dirty, filthy creamerieS.
Nor do they attempt to revive the old
charges against oleomargarine in which
It was depicted as the scourings of the
abattOirs, reeking with filth and pregnant
with disease That bugaboo is played
out, and the consuming public has come
to know that no butter in any creamery,
from milk from the best of dalrieS, is
made under conditions inSuring greater
cleanliness than are those surrounding
| the making of oleOmargarine from the
| Abattolr to the market, a fact to which
| Mr.. White gives unconscious confirmation
in his statement that "the poor man does
not know the difference between colored
oleo and colored butter. Mr.. White him
| dairy butter, or even TO creamery butter
| unless he knows who the buttermaker is.
Neither does Mr.. White answer the
| charge that creamery men use coloring
matter for fully eight months of the
| year to give their butter the rich June
| color using the same matter used by
! the makers Of oeOmargarine for the same
! purpose. If, as he says, oleomargarine
uncolored is just as good food product
! as is the cOlOred, why is not unColored
| butter? II 1t Is deception to color
| oieomargarine to resemble June butter,
! why is it not equally a fraud to color
| December butter to the midsummer
| shade? Has not the poor man." who
| cannot afford creamery butter, just as
| good a right to have his oleo colored as
| has the consumer of creamery butter to
| have his given artlfcially a rich tinge?
| Why discriminate then between two
| equally healthful foods: why not amend
! the Grout bill to tax colored butter as
! well il the sole purpose is to prevent
/ know for a fact that makers of oleo
would be glad to sell 1t for what it is"
! as Mr.. White says, If they were permit
ted But the law of Minnesota and soma
other states absolutely prohibits it's SALE
and, as there is a constant demand for 1t,
made Let the states take off their ban
merely requiring each package to be Ia
beled for what it is and 1t will be sold
as openly here as it is in England, and
| be bought and eaten only by those who
want it. Not only is the sale prohibited
but the making Of it also Could it be
! maze mere; the SWlIt company, at TINS
place. would install an oleo plant giving
employment to upwards of 200 men, in
| stead Of sending, as they now do, the
fats to Chicago to be made there into
oleo. and shipped back under the pro-
| lection of the interstate commerce act Is
1t not enough that class interests can in
woke the power of this state TO prevent
a useful product being sold and large
industry being established In it, without
! congress being coerced by the same mar
| row interests to tax the industry every
| where out Of existence.
L may add that your constituents in
! this district. regardless of party saw
with satisfaction and hearty approval
your action on the proposition to tax our
fellow citizens in Puerto Rico on imports
of their products for the benefit of GER
| tain domestic industries, with whose
| products the imports might compete, and
they take it as an indication that you
will apply the same principle that mo-
tived your vote in that case to any pro-
posal to tax, out of existence domestic
industry at the command of class which
imagines. mistakenly, that the products
proposed for taxation are Its competitors.
Yours very respectively,
Wv. M. Campbell.