Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
TO the Editor of the Register.

TO the Editor of the Register.
Sir:-In "Equitys' long pro butter
inc Phillippi in last Sundays issue, it
appears that Butter Lover" is charged
by the bogus butter advocate of gen.
orally installing facts, of being lame on
the law question, having kick, SIAN
dering Wheeling, and other offences.
So l trust that as too am citizen of
Wheeling, and pay perhaps as much in
taxes as B.. you viii kindly permit
reply.
AS to price, can state have bought
good butter at-25 cents In market during
our last winter season. which followed
q severe drouth. OF course there are
fancy prices, but the above is correct,
and in spring and when there Is less
drouth, lower prices prevail, as low as
the amount stated in my first article.
Witness last Wednesdays (whOlesale)
market repOrt-tub, zoe; choice, 1Sc;
fair, 15c. The retail will be but few
cents more. In the latest World" AL
manac, p. 1877, the Department of Agri
culture gives the rate of value Of the
butter of the U. S. at 1Sc per pound in
a total product of 1,430, 600, 900 pounds.
In discussing the legal question
Equity simply tumbles over himself, he
derides the law of a sovereign State,
and relies on the obiter dicta of sin
gle Judge, but is careful to omit to
state any decision and the volume and
page of any U. S. Supreme Court report
declaring such law unconstitutional, for
the good reason that none exists. On
the contrary the police power of the
State-its right to intervene to protect
the health of he peoples clearly es-
ablished. The law he berates is in Ch
of the Acts of the Legislature of 1891,
which has been upheld by the Court OF
Appeals in the case of State VS.. Myers,
d w. Va. Rep. p. 1922, the court saying
the intent of this statute Is to protect
the public from fraud in the sale of an
article of every day use; and there are
here cited other decisions showing that
the State can say what color imitation
butter shall have-also the case is here
cited of Powell VS.. Penn'a, 127 U. S. 67S.
In Commonwealth VS.. Russell, 1872 Mass
$40, Am. Digest, 1895, it is held, that,
under their statute prohibiting the
manufacture or sale Of compound in i'm
itation or yellow butter, but providing
that cleo may be sold in separate
form and in such manner as will advise
the consumer of its real character, the
sale of oleomargarine containing color
ing matter in imitation of butter is il
legal, though the purchaser is advised
of it's real character. In Am Dig. 1898,
u. S. Cir. Ct, 1897, 1T is within the
- fatn 10 rnryi6 Ia
that articles sold therein as substitute
for butter shall be colored pink to pre-
vent deception. "-Armour Pack. Co. VS..
Snyder. In Plumley VS.. Mass, 155 U. S.
461, it is held that the Act of August
2, 1886, (Which imposes tax on and
regulates the manufacture and sale OF
oleo) is not intended to interfere with
the exercise by the statutes of any au-
thority they can rightfully exercise over
the sale OF oleo therein.
AS to health and digestion. the ex-
perience of the writer's friends is the
direct opposite of Equity's claim. With
us it does not digest as butter, and the
cooks all claim that it will not melt
like lard or the genuine butter and will
not intermix with the other ingredients,
but the oily matter comes to the top.
British Encyclopedia, vol. II, p 1872,
states that oleo lis animal fat less part
of the palmitin and stearin. 1t falls
short of the butter-glycerides contained
in butter, the physiological action of
which has never been made out;
possibly they may account to
some extent for the butter be-
ing more easily digestible than
ordinary fat" Yes, Chemist Wiley may
say it's more easily digested than fruit.
Some people cannot eat fruit at all
to the many it is lead at night If
golden in the morning" No, E., B. L.
kicks" only at wrong articles and con-
dennis all imitation buffers that are
bad-and each is bad per Sc that vio-
lates the law-but in kicking" at bo-
gus butter he has probably struck a
representative of an oleo trust, who
shouldn't forget that one of the first
rules Of equity is that He who asks
equity must do equity" He would al
low the bogus to deceive by its yellow
color.
AS to creamery, some brands are
genuine-it depends on the brand-but
why not all genuine when sold at soc
retail, wholesale 21c and 22c? E. is