The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-11-02
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Chester Long and the Chicago Dairy Union
VI. NJ. 8IURDOCK. Editor.

Chester Long and the Chicago Dairy Union.
The National Dairy Unicn OF 1ss South Water street
Chicago through its paid secretary Charles G. Knight
is sending out thousands typewriter letters suboined
to circular to the farmers the Seventh congressional
Kansas which Congressman Long is attacked
in the most vicious manner. for what? Simply
cause Chester Long declared that was representing
district dairy livestock interests are
ourshing ne believe it would be right
one interest detriment Of other would
be like voting to tax alfalfa the interest who
raising some other kind Of clover explaining at the time
that he was in favor the Brosus pure food BILL and
he was in favor Of compelling the oeomargane man
plainly stamp "Oleomargarne" on every roll
turned out Of that article Gould any fair man have
sumed fair poson2 circular letter sent out
by this Chicago Dairy Union which is in fact trust is
only vicious untruhful practically charging that
Long retained in the interest Of criminal This
nonOpoys hired man must take the Kansas farmer to
and the livestock be idiots The circular is
dated october 20 and the evident intention is to food the
district too late for any reply. No man who knows Con
gresham Long win for one believe the SANDER
that he is in the pay Of livestock men or Of packing
house men, or oleonargane makers or in the pay of any
body else nor in the pay Of criminal He is not
g
the people Of the Seventh district of Kansas swallow any
such nonsense Of the forbid the
selling Of "oleonlargarne" as butter" and Mr. Long
stands squarey by proposition Of Mr. Long
to- compel the stamping Of every roll of oeomargane as
such would make it impossible to evade such law If
osomargarne was sold for what it really is no buyer
could be deceived defrauded while afford
only be deprived Of it, As for
charge that Long in the pay Of oeomargarne manu-
facturers the pay livestock men, that is not
hearty sympathy farming interests Of his great
district only slanderous but lie out
of whole cloth urged by who presumably must
make showing that he may down his easy job Of
writing sanderou letters and issuing circulars denouncng
other people as criminals and being in the pay Of a criminal
class Of the matter is as the Congressional
Record shows Of fifteen members originally
favorng the Grout bill propose substitute and along
the very by Mr. Long which h1 will sup
port Kansas having both milk to SELL why should
discriminate against the one or the other or one for the
other at the behes Of Chicago combine which can see
only its selfish interest? The farmer does not
fight the creamery man. yet the packer
He needs them both his business The Grout biH as
excongressman Judge Peters well says, is against the
Kansas farmer raises milk COWS beef steers and hogs
The circuit bill was got up by a who represents a.
purely dairy state which raises neither nor pork The
Grout bin dscriminates against cattle and hog country
like and in favor of the England and northern
dairy states besides jerry Simpson acknowledged in
his Hutchinson speech, also disc-mnates against the
who can't afford the creamery product Mr.
Long favors win for the committees substitute
to the Grout bn which substance provides that manu-
farers Of oeomargarne shall up the product in the
shape Of brick roll in packages or two pounds
with the word oeomargarne in sunken letters wrapped
in paper wrapper upon which shall be printed the word
"oeomargarne" and that only be sold in packages
and on this shall be placed internal revenue
stamp This tells to purchaser just what he is buy
ing It stops all danger imposition and it places the
substitute its merits The man who cannot afford
butter purchase less expensive spread for
has daily bread biscuit ana cannot be deceived
is to be hoped that farmer Of the Big Seventh
district win be mised by onesded and selfish ntsrep-
rsenaHon the secretary of the Chicago trust alluded
TO- whom would farther than we would trust
the oleomargarine maker.