Evening star., 1900-03-07
license fees as condition precedent to 1t.
manufacture and sale.

license fees as condition precedent to its
manufacture and sale.
In tire Interest of Public Welfare.
This was done in the interest of the
public welfare. Congress has the uBdoubted
right to exercise this power. 1t has ex-
ercised it in the tax on state bank circula-
tfon, on filled cheese and adulterated -four
This is the part Of enlightened duty and
policy concerning internal protection.
1t has been found however, through the
inefficient administration of state laws and
the powerful influence of this oleo combina-
tion, that this protection is insufficient. In
spite of 1t the manufacture of the counter
felt has grown from 34,OOo,OO0 pounds in
1883 to S30OO,OO0 pounds in 1899. Be it re-
membered that fully 80 per cent is con-
sumed under the supposition that it is
butter.
This product of 1899 would make 1,3s3,-
6s4 60-pound tubs If placed side by side
they would reach 400 miles. If loaded into
farm wagons. a full load in each. they
would reach 400 miles in length. This out
put equaled the product of 4146J0 cows
worth ST.. .469 800.
"A great many people ask why it is not
as permissible to color oleomargarine as it
is to color butter. 1 would answer, because
they are not eolored with the same pur-
pose.
Butter in winter is too light to suit the
taste OF most consumers. The highest
value Is for fresh butter, not more than
bear the yellow summer color of butter.
That is a matter of taste and not decep-
ton, for 1t is not colored to resemble some
thing that it is not.
But oleomargarine is colored to make it
resemble butter, that 1t may sell and be
consumed butter. 1t is colored, not for
the benefit or taste of the consumer, but to
deceive the consumer.
Product is Harmful.
There is no credible evidence to show
that oleomargerine is innocuous; no evil
dence to show that when eaten continu-
ously in place of butter. it is not harmful.
But there are reports in great abund-
ance to the effect that oleomargarine is
harmful
But there is another phase of this ques-
ton There is absolutely no protection
for the public against the introduction of
dangerous and positively unhealthful COM
pounds in oleomargerine.
There is no reason on earth why the
fculest of germ laden fats should not be
used in the making of this compound, when
once they are deodorized by the aid of
But with butter it is different Any
contamination or hurtful manipulation is
instantly shown in a loss of flavor and
quality.
Butter always advertfses its true condi-
ton and no man need be deceived thereby.
1T is high time that Congress entered
upon the work of protecting all honest and
legitimate food products against the dis
honest greed of the counterfeiters and adul-
terators.
LAS straw to show the way we are tend
ing. the following small clipping from the
Ohio Farmer is useful:
Receipts of butter and cheese in New
York for the six days ending February &
were: Butter. J,296 packages; cheese 1890
boxes. against 39.6O6 packages butter and
1852 boxes cheese for the same week last
year. Since October l 1854 packages of
butter have been returned from Europe"
Gov. Hoard was followed by H. c. Adams
focd and dairy commissioner of Wisconsin;
G. Y. Knight, secretary of the National
Dairy Union, and G. L. Flanders, assistant
commissioner of agriculture of New York
in favor of the bill.