Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-17

ducts I trust that the committee on
bring as strong n resolution as they can
possibly. demanding that our national leRls- |
lature shall enact and provide means Tor
the enforcement of such legislation. They
can do themselves credit and insure for
their product, the handler and the manu-
facturer better price and increased de-
mand and thereby Increase their own agri-
cultural industries.
Oieo Against Dairy Butter.
Colonel John F. Hobbs OF New York spoke |
Of "oleomargarine Versus Dairy Butter"
lie said in part
II the assault of butter upon oleo-
margarine is successfully carried into ma
tional legislation 1t will further cripple our
lame constitution and spring into existence
the first born of a family of pernicious
statutes which will stranRle competition
and hinder trade In more lines than one.
The silk manufacturer Will have the pre-
cedent and license to jump upon the cotton
farmer by asking that mercerized cotton
shall not feel like nor look like silk, even
though the appearance and wearing value
OF the cotton fabric so treated is height
ened. The killing of the mercerized cotton
| industry would also give the caustic soda
| industry "a Knockout blow. The manu-
| facturer of woolens. being also affected
| may join the silk man in his action. In
| the contest the manufacturer of CONNER
| cial spun" silk, IL compound fabric OF SILK
and wool, might also be cracked. The
| lard man may ask for the annihilation OF
| lardne and any other substance which has
| the form and appearance of lard and which
may be sold by unscrupulous peop!e as
! lard The cane sugar man will have the
| right to ask for the exclusion of glucose,
| which, though sweet, differs from sugar
| more than oleomargarine does from butter.
| The olive oil manufacturer and importer
! will have the legal right and precedent TO
| ask for the squelching of cotton oil, which
| is a chemical equivalent to and CONNER
| Clal substitute for the oil of the olive.
| Every other edible oil man will have the
privilege to get every other similitude by
! the ear and flguratively, chew II of. In
dustries may kill industries ad libitum and
| ad inflnitum.
| is butter entitled to a monopoly OF the
smear market and is 1t right or advan-
| tageous to force "a trust of this kind upon
the people and to force It's products into
| the stomaChs OF the people at 30 cents a
pound for IL cents to Is cents article.
No Copyright on the Tint.
II is sought so kill oleomargarlne with a
lO-cent u pound tax, claiming that 1t Is
! Colored In imitation of butter The in
| ference ls that butter is not colored AZ
matter of fact. practically all winter but
butter to helghten its rich appearance.
If butter is butter, then why do the fac
| tories add a deeper color To II? There IS
no copyright on the tint. But the dairy
people ask congress to issue to them
color patent in the form of national
statute.
A pure, natural colored, rich dairy butter
is one thing. A poor waxy, cold tar col
ored preparation, with it's poverty and
trums and dyes. and then fostered upon
the public for what 1t appears to be, Is
| another matter. The great bulk OF the
| butter sod Is of this poor white waNy
| kind. 1t Is simply favored with cultures
and frightened by art
| will step In further and say that there
| Is scarcely a high grade butter-whether
winter or summer-made which has not
both artificial flavor and artificial color in
| II. The purpose of these delusions is to
appeal more strongly to the sense of sight
and the sense of taste of the purchaser
Why should butter alone have this artifi-
The market is full of fraudulent butter
and butter fakes. and it is not ole
margarine, either.
Renovated butter is the best of the
frauds. There is more renovated butter
made in this country than there Is ole
making is on the Increase. The makers
went 80 far as to steal the model of the
packages specially designed by the Depart
ment of Agriculture for export butter and
then ruined our export butter trade. This
stuff is made by blowing old, rancid butter
keting II as pure Elgin creamery butter
Salt Water Bath Another Fake.
Sousing butter fun of salty water Is an
other fake. Much of the butter now on the
and and more Of these foreisn substances-one-
NTH of Its body. Whew! The dairies buy
the pure butter fat as solid. then initiate
IL FOR the market at 80 cents per pound for
water.
1t does seem to an unbiased man in the
moon that congress has bigger and a
more legitimate Held in regulating the dairy
| industry and the sellers of dairy products
the low grade buffers for what they are
9a and in clearing the butter market Of 1t Its
than in harassing a wholesome and legitl-
: mate compound product like oleo-
margarine.
II every pound of butter made were of
the oleomargarine character 1t would still
be the product of the American domestic
animal and farm Hence II is one class of
| farm product and farm animal seeking a
market which is also sought by another
set OF tarm an ANIMALS, Has GO, fotgresS or ne .ne
the field OF that other field of farmers
and stock raisers? Think 1t oyer quietly
ana inparuaIy, low long VIII the rr I,Nf Il
such provinciai selfshness.
The relative importance of butter and
oleomargarine IN tne business aira,rs %, Oh
{ Of the controversy between these products
into the arena of national politics. This
controversy Is porhe oi sreeu,