Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-01-10
Cousins on OIeomargarine.

On Dec. Sch congressman Cousins
made a speech in the house Oh the
oleomargarine subject, in favor of the
Grout bill, which is bill to make OLE
omsrgarine and other limitations OF
dairy products subject to the laws Of
the state or territory into which they
are transported, and to change the tax
on oleomargarine. The congressman
made some strong as we'll as humorous
points, which are worth reproducing.
In concluding his speech he said:
1t seems to me that Uncle Sam has
a constitutional right to protect his
own constitution.
In the name of tallow, leaf lard,
cotton seed oil and the constitution,
We are implored by the opponents of
this bill to stand by the law breaker
who greases our bread when we pay him
to butter it. 1t is exceedingly queer
how many purposes men try to max 9
the constitution serve. 1t has been
evoked in behalf of bad ballots, and
now it is urged in behalf of bad butter.
The only thing fit to butter any
thing with is butter.
1t is urged as an excuse for this
fraud that oleomargarine contains no
deleterious ingredients. Neither does
horse flesh, and if boarding house
keeper should serve horse meat to his
boarders as pretense for beefsteak,
he would be just as guilty as the COM
mercialists who color cotton-seed oil
and tallow and sell it as the genuine
product of pure cream.
A hair in the butter used to be re-
garded as an awful thing, but now
statesmen would defend it on constitu-
tional grounds, holding that the in
gradients of hair are harmless and that
its trade between states should be
unrestricted.
l should like to board the opponents
of the Circuit bill for session or two
not to make money, but Just to diet
them awhile on their own medicine.
You can paint landscapes in any
oil colors that you choose. That is
fiction, and the buyers must take their
chance. But when it comes to things
that are taken internally they should
be properly labeled. When land.
lord trusts me feel that l should trust
him, but this confidential relation can
never exist while the oleo man is around
with his criminal and commercial in
ducements.
When your physician allows you TO
eat so much butter per day, how can
you know what to tell him when there
has been an oleo man in the community.
When firm sells a favorite brand
of axel grease they take great pride in
labelling it, even in the smallest pack
ages, but the cleo men ARE not so
proud as some folks air. they are
willing to live in obscurity until they
can amass fortune and go elsewhere.
II anyone wants to lubricate his grid
die cakes with machine oil, that is his
business, but let him stand by his
colors and convictions and not steal
the creamery hue of innocent country
heifers.
Mr.. Chairman, it is getting so that
ordinary boarders have no rights. You
should have as much right to pass
counterfeit money to the landlord as
he has to pass counterfeit butter to
you.
II is about time in this country when
it should not be necessary to have a
coroner's inquest or a chemical analy-
sis of the victuals before asking the
blessing.
The time will come in America, as
it has come in several other countries
when IL will be crime to adulterate
any article of food or drink, and this is
the beginning of that time. NY vote
shall go for the Grout bill 1t will pass
this body as certainly IS the house Of
representatives represent the people Of
this country and the the senate will be
responsible for its fate.