Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-03-08
Dsirymen's Demands.


mously adopted by the Wis Dairy.
mems association, in late session
ut WATERFOWL. strongly present their
views on the eleomargarine question.
The large dairy interest among our
readers appreciates the hurtfulness
of n cheap substitute coming into
competition with product under
guise of butter. and realize the ne
cessity for the protection demanded
by these resolutions:
Resolved, That we favor modification in our
school laws and their administration shall
secure the teaching of the elements of agri
culture in our common schools.
Resolved, That the Darymen Of Wisconsin
as represented in this meeting and by this as
sociation, which for twcnty-eight years has
lah0red 10 make Wisconsin, great dairy state
believe and declare;
l That oleomargarine eolored like butter is a
commercial fraud.
> That oleomargarinc under its own name and
color i, "A legitimate article of commerce.
3 That Congress has the constitutional pow
er 10 tax any business to the point of extinction
which it regards a. preiudicial TO the public
welfare
That the great bulk of oleomargarinc col
ored in imitation Of yellow butter is consumed
rs and for butter. and that in its sale the final
purchaser is cheated, and the producer Of an
/ honest product unfairly deprived of his light
mate market.
| That we, aS dairymen. neither desire nor
ask class legislation: but we are certain of our
; right to ask and demand of~state and national
legislatures all constitutionalrestric upon
the traffic in a counterfeit food product which
must depend for its profits upon the deception
/ OF the public
| That we pledge our sympathy, our money
and our earnest political influence 20 the sup
/ port of the National Dairy Union in its efforts
| to secure the passage 10y Congress Of the bill
now before the House Of Representatives
known as the Grout Bill No. 37i7. which re-
| duces the taN on uncolored oleomargarine from
| two cents 10 one and one-half cents per pound,
and increases the tax on olcomargarine eolored
| in imitation and resemblance of yellow butter
to ten cents per pound and makes it, as an ar
ticle Of interstate commerce, subject 20 the
laws of the state into which it enters.
7 We ask this legislationnot simply because
we represent an industry which has added
great wealth TO Wisconsin; we ask it not sim
ply because 100000 men are keeping COWS in
this state and making honest butter and
cheese and are power too great to be ignored
in either politics or business but We ask it
because it is right that hog butter should be
compelled TO 90 into the marke, under its own
color, and should not be allowed to steal the
color of butter, 10 pile up the profits of oleomar
garine trust and cheat the men who till the
/ soil of Wisconsin.
! S That the Wisconsin Dnirymens Associa-
ton speaking for the consumers of honest
butter. as well as the producers of the same,
both of whom are defrauded 10y a counterfeit,
call upon all patriotic and law abiding citizens
in this state TO support with earnest efforts
our State Dairy and Food Commissioner in
his eudeavor to suppress the unlawful sale OF
"A Chicago fraud which is striving 10 break
down Wisconsin industry.
| 9 That we desire 10 call the attention of the
people of the United States to the fact that
| there exists in thirty-two states of this Union,
laws restricting the sale of coored oleomarga
rne, and that there also exists conspiracy
on the part of the oleomargarine trust to break
down these laws by every means in THEN
power, even to the extent of hiring merchant,
| TO thus become law breakers; Furthermore
that this oemargarine comlsne is industri
ously spreading the false report that its pro
duet is a needed, cheap product for the poor
and thai the dairymen are seltshly opposed
thereto. This statement we repudiate and
state openly that all we desire is that laws
shall be enacted that will prevent the sale of a
chea? counterfeit to the poor al nearly OF
quite a butter price
Girls. if you wish to be a June
bride, with red lips and laughing
eyes, a lovely complexion, take
| Rocky Mountain Tea this month
| 35c.-Eastman d Meserole.