The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-18
THE CIRCUIT RILL DEAD.

The o e has none but the greatest
good will for the dairy interests of the
state and fully realizes their Importance
Any measure that is honestly meant in
their behalf will always receive the
hearty support of this paper. but tho
G 0 b e has never been able to feel sure
that the Grout bill belonged to this cat
egory. 1t would perhaps be unfair to say
that the politicians interested In framing
and promoting the bill had been hired by
the cleo manufacturers to put the bill
in such a form as to make It's passage
impossible or to render 1t void If passed;
that they worked a two-faeed cIaptrap
game to get the Doodle from the oleo
men and the applause from the dairymen,
yet that is the impression of many an
unbiased observer. The Winona indie
pendent is located in the heart of the
dairy interests of the state and is largely
dependent upon them for support. Hence
it stands to reason that it would not be
prejudiced against Them 1t says:
''The senate has laid the Grout anti
oleomargarine bill to rest for this season,
at least, but the Independent would not
advise the dairymen to grieve over the
outcome. There is very little, if any,
doubt that had it become a law the
courts would have declared it illegal at
the first opportunity, and the oleo man
1 udacture tr could sa have have been depended
quickly: In any event, the benefits to
the dairymen would have been short
lived, and they would have been left in
hn hoo III
passed.
1T is far from pleasant for news
paper to take en- attitude of opposition
to measure which has been so loudly
proclaimed as in the interests of the
dairymen, but the Independent takes it
that the farmers of this region are not
wise would be to discredit their inteIn-
gence, and this is something the indie
pendent will not be guilty of. This
newspaper does not like bogus butter any
estly desires the removal of its unfair
competition with genuine butter, but
somebody has Numbered in connection
with the framing of this Grout bill, either
ability. Indeed, so plainly Illegal are
some of its features that there is strong
the politicians concerned in the business
were playing politics with the dairy
men and looking for applause that could
only come to them under a grave mis-
conception.
The dairymen should now insist upon
a federal law requiring the labelling of
bogus butter and enforcing the most
rigid observance at every stage from the
manufacturer to the actual consumer.
A law of this kind is the only saliva
ton of the dairyn.en from unfair compe-
tition. and the doing away with such
give up any idea of conf1scating or de-
stroying any business which the courts
refuse to recognize as illegitimate, and
at the same time let them withhold en-
couragement from any politician who
advises to the contrary, and they will
soon arrive at the legitimate, proper and
sufficient remedy" ..e
The Clio b e is just as heartily OPP
posed to having oleo sold as butter as
any dairyman could be. Let it be sold
on its own merits and under It's proper
name. Secure law to this effect and
visit the severest punishment on any
dealer that violates it. If cleo could be
proven to be unwholesome, its manufac-
ture might be prohibited on that ground.
Such proof has never been furnished-on
the contrary the proof has been that 1t
is both wholesome and nutritious To
tax one legitimate industry out of ex-
istence in order to benefit another. is
clearly contrary to the American sense
Of justice. Let the dairymen work for
what is attainable and they will have
all reason to be satisfied