Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-01-17
The Circuit Bill,

The Grout bill, having passed the
national house Of representatives, is
now before the senate. The oleomar-
garine interests are doing all in their
power to stay its further progress The
big manufacturers of oleomargarine
are the packers, mainly, and they are
bringing influences to bear in 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, 1t will never do to pass b
law preventing the stun being sold for
butter, as then just so much less
steers fat will be used. One of the
big packers last year made a state
msnt that II the Grout bill became a
law 1t would cause fall in the price
Of beeves Of several dollars each. He
asserted that the use of stearine in
the making Of oleomargarine increased
the value OF each steer several dollars.
The packer that made the statement
knew it to be false, for he is a man
that has searched to the bottom Of
every matter Of that kind. but the
statement was expected to do good
work as 1t went the rounds Of the cat
tie raisers. Investigations have shown
that a very small amount Of stearine
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 a steer on
account Of the oleomargarine industry.
The wholesale buyer of steers does not
draw the line so closely as that, and,
II he can make few cents out Of an
animal by selling his fat as stearine.
that goes into the pocket of the packer
as profits. The packers have the sit
uation too securely IN their own power
to have to consider q few cents profit
and turn II over to the beef raiser to
keep his friendship.
Non-coloring Of oleomargarine is the
only way to prevent 1t 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. 1t is not
In the interest OF the manufacturers of
oleomargarine, for 1t will prevent them
from further perpetrating on the pub
lie fraud that has returned them a
golden harvest. 1t 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.
1t may be Of interest to our readers
to know the men that voted against
the Grout bill in the house. Their
names follow:
Aldrich, Allen (Ky.), Allen (Miss.),
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, Griggs (Ga),
Grosyenor, Hawley, Hay, Hedge,
Henry (Miss.), Henry (Tex), Johns
ton, Joy, Kitchen, Kleberg, Lanham,
Lassiter, Latimer, 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
lva), Richardson (Ala.), Sheppard.
Sims. Slayden, Smith (Ky.), Snod-
grass, Sparkman, stephens (Tex.),
Stewart (Wis.), Stokes, Talbert, Tay-
Tor (Ala.). Terry, Thomas IN. CO.. I'm
derwood. Wadsworth, Wheeler, White,
Williams (Miss.), Wilson Is. c..