Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-01-16
o cents 2 pound for a p cent, to IL cents

waHy Kind. II Is simply Favored INK
cultures and Frightened by an VIVA
II VIII step IN further and saw ,h,,
| there is scarcely q hgh grade butter'
| whether winter on summer mad. ,.r..t
has not both artificial flavor and aria.
| cial color In ID The purpose m tb'..
decisions IL TO appeal more STRONGLY =,
| the sense Of SIGHT and the soma. u,
taste Of the purchase. WHY sbopii
butter alone have this artificial color
rght?
THE market Is flIl of fraudulent bp,
ter and butter fakes. and Il IL not 1ls1-
! margarine either
Renovated butter rs tfe bast rr ,b,
frauds. There Is more renovated butter
made IN this country than there Is VI
oleomsrgarlne, and this kind of ba.trr1
butter making Is 1n the increase Tba
makers went so lar as Lo ste4l ths
model Of the packages specially do.
signed by the department of agr.cuI.
ture Tor export butter trade. Tins anna
is made by blowing old rancid butfar
through milk, re-chuung t and fha1
marketing It az pure ElgIn creamery
butter
"sousing butter fun Of salty water IA
another fake. Much OF the butter NOW
on the market contains MS high as 20
per cent and more OF these foreign sub.
stances. one-ffth OF Its body. Whpw.
The dairles buy the pure butter fat as
solid then initiate 30 i1r tha market "A
80 cents per pound Tor water.
1T does seem 10 an unbiased man In
the moon that Congress has @ bige p
and more legitimate field I'M veg Inc
the dairy Industry aud the sellers az
dairy products in eliminating the fake
products branding the low grade butt.
tiers for what they are and 90 clearing
the butter markets OF rs frauds stuffed
and ingenlus products than no harrass.
Ing a wholesome and legitimate com.
pound product like oleomargaHne
III every pound OF butter made were
Of the oleomargarlne character. 10 would
still be the puroduct OF the American
domestic animal and farm Hence % "a
one class OF farm product and farm ami.
NAL seeking a market which Is also
sought by another set OF farm animals.
Has Congress or the one set a right 10
destroy the product and the field ~ that
other field Of farmers and stock ralsers7
Think Il over quietly and lmpartIally,
How long viii the live stock ndustrle.
~ this country permit such provincial
selhshness?
THE relative importance OF butter
and oleomargarine IN the business az
fairs Of this country Is magnded by tho
intrusion Of the controversy between
these products into the arena of nation
al politics. This controversy is borne OF
greed.
THE supreme effort of the forming
creamery trust Is 70 eliminate an com,
petition so as 10 widen the margin be-
tween the cost ~ production and the
selling price so as TO increase the profit
The cow-milker and the poor consumer
is alike eliminated before the matter u
the profit Is figured The poorer n the
people must then eat COW butter an the
creamery price. or lick a meat skin
Napoleon knew that the poor plebians
OF France needed a cheaper equivalent
Of butter and he humanely asked the
famous discOyerer OF oleomargarlne 20
discover n cheaper butter for his people.
But the butter fellows are not as hui
name or as reasonable as the au0crlt
Of France The poor winter white but
ter is cheap enough for them. bu, Who
ever heard Of q creamery labelling rs
10 cent waXy stun winter and its
richer 30 cent yellow summer butter
summer" Yet both are made, though
all is colored and sold for the heheI
priced and higher grade stun. A. me
final day the Great Judge may saw 90
the creamery conscience: 'Depayt. En-
ter the chute Your way Is still erased
10 the eternal kitchen whence your but.
lyric flavor shall forever RISE
The speaker was followed by Hon D.
W. Wilson. who spoke on "The But.
tered Side OF the Question as follow
HON d. w. WILSON.
The Hon. d. W. Wilson. Of nllnas
spoke Of the BUttered side OF as
Question" He said In part:
THE discovery that animal fat vi'
practically the some as butter fat. Al
though It did not contain that speca
element that gives 10 fine butter ID
flavor and aroma, but having the muir.
cious parts. which We're equally as val
liable as the real butter, was locke
upon with much favor by the CONNER
cial world. II was only few year
after the manufacture OF OleOmargaT
Inc In this country until IL was see
that, made as IL was in the semblanc
Of butter, there was an opportunity go
fraud in It's sale that could b. takcl
advantage OF, and 10 was very earl.
In its history sold for the real article
The continued and persistent sale q
colored oleomIrgerine FOR butter wa
SO great that about thirty States ha,
passed a law 20 prevent the sale of cleo
margarine col0red % Initiate butter
but with an this legislation the resui
has not been OF much value or bensfi
excepting IN a few States Ia which th.
dairy industry was largely deycl pee
and a dairy and food commission wa,
established TO enforce the Jaw. The re-
suit has been a very large sale Of cleo.
margarine an over the country, prac'
ucally the majority OF which II not
sold FOR butter. has actually been con.
sumed as butter
THE Grout bin. which has already
passed the House, provides that a tax
OF ten cents per pound Doe placed upon
oleomargarine colored 90 initiate but.
ter, and reduces the tax upon 0leo-
margarine In las original state 90 a
quarter OF a cent
1t has been believed and the flcts
would seem o. bear out the statement
that. until the element of color is elm
mated from oleom8rgarine the element
OF fraud In its sale win not be elimiult-
ed II Is serious question whether
any other method than that OF cllminat
ing the color from oleomargarlne can
be found 20 prevent this fraudulent
sale. a large number OF people who are
Interested both as producers and con-
sumers 81 dairy products believe this
10 be a fact and II this be true there
can be no good reason why the color
should not be eliminated.
There Is not person IN this hail but
would prefer honest dealing On food
products. and believe Is as
ready as myself 90 90 any
Thing 20 assist any measure that
win bring about So desirable a thing
rs 'he actual sale OF food products for
What they are.
The agitation along the lines of IRE.
venting a fraudulent sale OF olo0mar-
serine has been great ana persistent.
and the sentiment Of the whole country
= IN favor of the proposition The
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