Hutchinson gazette., 1901-01-17
Tho Oront mn.


The Grout bill, having passed the
national house Of representatives, Is
now before tho senate The oleOmar-
sarine interests are doing all In their
power to stay It's further progress, The
Dig manufacturers of oleomargarine
are the packers, mainly, and they arO
bringing influences TO bear In n round
about way to bolster up their own in
terests. Being big buyers of cattle,
they have naturally turned to the sell
ers OF cattle for help, and are reason
Ing with the cattlemen to the effect
that, as oleo Is made partly from
steers fat, II will never do to pass a
law preventing the stun being sold for
butter, as then Just so much less
steers fat will be used. One OF tho
big packers last year made q state
ment that II the Grout bill became q
law II would cause fall In the price
OF beeves OF several dollars each He
asserted that the use OF stearlne In
the making OF oeomargarine increased
the value OF each steer several dollars.
Tho packer that made the statement
knew II to be false, for he Is a man
that has searched 10 tho bottom of
every matter Of that kind. but tho
statement was expected to do good
work as 1t went the rounds Of the cat
tlo raisers Investigations have shown
that n very small amount OF stearne
goes into the making OF oleomargar-
Inc, and 1t amounts to only very few
cents for each steer. 1t Is not at all
probable that any cattle raiser ever
received one extra cent for n steer on
account OF tho oleomargarlne industry.
The Wholesale buyer Of steers does not
draw tho line 80 closely as that, and,
II he can make n few cents out Of an
animal by selling his fat as stearlne,
that goes into the pocket OF tho packer
as profits The packers have the sit
uation too securely In their own power
to have to consider n few cents profit
and turn II over to the beef raiser to
keep his friendship.
Non-colorlng Of oleomargarine is the
only way to prevent It being sold for
butter, and the Grout bill should pass.
1t Is not only In the interest of the
producers and consumers Of butter; 1t
Is equally in the interest Of the con-
sumers Of oleomargarine, II is not
In the interest OF the manufacturers OF
oleomargarlne, for 1t will prevent them
from further perpetrating on the pub
lie fraud that has returned them q
golden harvest, II Is for the interest
OF the people to pass this bill and close
the door to fraud,
Every reader Of the Farmers Re-
view should at once write his senators
at Washington asking them to help
pass the bill.
THESE VOTED AGAINST THE BILL.
II may be OF interest to our readers
to know the men that voted against
the Grout bill In the house. Their
names follow;
Aldrlch, Allen (Ky.), Allen (Miss.) J,
Atwater, Bailey, (Kan), Bailey (Tex.),
Ball. Bankhead, Bartholdt Bartlett,
Bellamy, Boutell Qll), Brantley (Ga),
Bromwell, Broussard (La.), Burke,
(Tex), Burleson, Burnett, Burton, Car
mack, Catchings, Clayton (Ala,), Clay
ton IN. ", Cooper (Tex), Cowherd,
Cummings, Cusack, Davis, DeGraf-
fenried, Finley, Fleming, Foster, Fow-
Ter, Fox, Gaines, Gayle, Grlggs (Ga),
Grosvenor Hawley, Hay, Hedge,
Henry (Miss.), Henry (Tex), Johns
ton, Joy, Kitchen Kleberg, Lanham,
Lassiter, Latlmer, Lester, Lewis, Lin
ney, Little, Livingston, Long, Lorimer,
Loud, Lowering, Mcclellan McCulloch,
McDermott, Mann, Mcain, McRea, Nan
hen, Noonan, Pearce (Mo), Pierce
(Tenn,), Ransdell, Rhea, Ky), Rhea
(Va), Richardson (Ala.), Sheppard,
Sims, Slayden, Smith (Ky.), Snod-
grass, Sparkman, Stephens (Tex,),
Stewart (Wls), Stokes, Talbert, Tay-
lor (Ala,), Terry, Thomas IN, c., I'm
derwood Wadsworth, Wheeler, White,
Williams (Miss.), Wilson Is. CO..