The Langston City herald., 1900-01-27
Bogus Butter in Denver.

A writer in the Denver Post says:
What has become Of the promoters
of the anti-butterine crusade which
was being waged in Denver few short
months ago?" inquired a citizen who,
in a peregrination among stores, had
gazed upon piles of oleomargarine now
being exposed for sale. He said he
could find it in all the groceries of the
city. 1t only required little investi-
cation to learn that the mans asser-
ton was correct. The butter counters
everywhere are loaded with the stuff.
: IN every case it is colored yellow, and
appears as genuine as the article it is
intended to represent. The flavor Is as
enticing to the appetite as the best
creamery product, but the prices are
at variance with the figures which the
creamery owners have frequently said
1t costs to put real butter on the mar
ket. Nice-looking pound packages Of
oleomargarine were found in most of
the stores for sale at twenty cents. 1t
was as yellow as gold from annato,
which constitutes the coloring matter,
to the exclusion of other things used
for that purpose. These packages were
unbranded, and were not protected by
| papers. They were marked by little
cardboard at one side of the case hold
ing them, Creamery"
By the side of them was a pyramid
of packages branded Golden Star"
They were wrapped in tissue paper,
and the clerk said they sold for twen-
ty-fVe cents per pound. The flavor
was more like genuine butter; they
looked more akin to a nice pound OF
the product of some of the we'll known
Colorado butter making establishments
than did the unpapered pounds of plain
oleomargarine which cost only twenty
cents, but good judges could recognize
that each of these packages belonged
to the same family. Those in papers
were prepared for the higher class
! trade.
Where are the officials and societies
| who a few months ago were waging
! such a warfare against the sale of oleo-
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cost? The merchants say the cream
cries are charging twenty-six cents
wholesale, and the retail price is thirty
! cents. 1t is said to be a prohibitory
! price to a great many people. Only
! the rich could eat genuine butter. In
days gone by farmers sent to market
what was called dairy butter, which
served the smaller purses with a very
acceptable substitute for higher priced
| goods.
No more dairy butter comes to mar
ket because the creameries have estab
lished depots through the country and
gather up all the farmers milk. 1t
brings them more money than they
formerly realized by making butter
themselves. And since the creameries
use all the milk, very little low grade
butter comes on the market from the
| agricultural classes. The creameries
several years ago turned out what they
! called first, second and third grade
goods. That was when times were not
so good as now. They are now said to-
be putting their entire output>S+bo a.
market as first-class gri6
nese tOndTtIOns were called to the
of creamery manager and
he responded: Yes, we know that
the market is filed with oleomargarine,
but what can we do? No matter whom
we put into prosecute violators of the
law, 1t falls. Our agents are bought
up. The oleomargarine influences find
them. They make a bluff around for
few months and then it's all off.
But the people who buy the stuff seem
satisfied, and so long as we are max
ing and selling all the good butter that
we can produce at good prices l don't
know that we have any kick coming.
AT the present time the retail price of
good butter is thirty cents. 1t cannot
be bought for less, and the grades of
stuff called butter which are being sold
for twenty to twenty-five cents are
The public must be it's
own judge of what it wants." This
business is very funny
at times. remarked a wholesaler. You
can have no idea of the number of
really frst-class people who use this
butter substitute. We have big Gus
toners from the hill-Capitol hill, l
mean. The men make the household
purchases by wholesale. They drop in
here and buy it by the tub. Then they
scratch the labels off the tubs, so that
The women at home will not see them.
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they are not using the best creamery
butter.'
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