Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-26
storm Of indictments and motions I

TT Is vain for these men to pretend
that their product is colored SIMPLY
to give it cheerful and palatabie e&-
terror. If that is so why are dealers
exhorted before ordering to make sure
of its exact correspondence in color
with the butter offered from season to
season in the local market place? But
1T is said that these gentlemen have
the same right to color their product
that the makers of butter have to color
theirs. I deny it. They are without
the legal authority to do it in 80 states
of the union, and without the moral
right to do it anywhere in the United
States Why? Because the coloring
of butter, whether the practice be good
or bad, misleads nobody, wrongs no.
body, Injuries nobody; whatever Its
color it is still butter and nothing else.
There is something fatally defectivs
in an investment which spends more
of it's energy in avoiding the police
than it does in the other departments
of its business.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson,
unapproached in his own country and
unrivaled in any other country of the
world as a student of the questions
with which the farm has to deal, shows
that the total amount of beef fat used
in making oleo is in the nature of the
case so insignificant as to find no ex-
preston in the market price OF beef,
But under his brief statement was
IA philosophy deeper than that, for he
pointed out that the days OF the range
herd are numbered and that the very
life of that business even now de-
perds upon the individual homestead,
with its bona fide settlers, and the
creamery near at hand.
81 claim not only the right to speak
but I exercise an official duty in speak
ing for the livestock Industry of a
Istate that is first in swine, first In beef
cattle and first in the production of
mich cows. Our people can not be
shut out of the livestock association
or any other well-regulated institution.
There is little pork fat which in the
form of neutral oil is used in making
oleo, and nearly everybody In Iowa is
raising pigs; but nobody wants to sell
them for butter, SO far as have ever
heard. Some fat of beef is used, and
nearly everybody in Iowa is raising
steers, magnificent specimens, tracing
their ancestry thru the herd books
of the old world; but you never meet
anybody there who wants to sell them
for butter. With hogs SO fat that
you have to put castors under them
to move them around the feed yard,
and short horns that balance a weight
of two tons in the stock yards, I have
heard from only one man who appears
| to think that the livestock industry
has anything to gain by crippling the
butter trade; for that whole commun.
ity long ago learned from the counsel
of James Wilson that at the threshold
of all permanent agricultural prosper
ity stands the COW with her calf by
her side.
| "Even those who like to eat oleo have
a right to know what they are eating,
and those who are just able to stand 1t
when they can npt afford anything else,
are entitled to have it served in such a
way that both the price of 1t and the
looks of it will put them on their guard
as to it's actual character. In the cele-
brated joint-debate of Zophar with Job
he undertakes to show the state and
| final portion of the wicked. Curse af-
ter curse he utters as he tries to reach
an adequate statement of their mis-
| fortunes, he shall suck the poison vi
asps and the vipers tongues shall slay
him. but that Is not all, the climax OF
loss and penalty is not yet reached. /,
is no sudden retlibution; no swift judg-
ment from the skies. He hastens tt
present it to the Imagination of the
afflicted patriarch-'he shall not see the
rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey
and butter; not even the brooks OF
honey, pictorial way obviously, OF
saying that the worst thing that car
happen to a man is to be sentenced tc
eat glucose and oleo all the days of his
| life.
II am aware that in recent years
means have been invented to renovatt
grades of homemade butter not before
available. But whatever may be sale
against the sale of renovated butter
one thing must not be overlooked; II
is butter; surely the churning of milk
has brought it forth. do not believe
that 1t appears in the butter marke
under any subterfuges of the trade. II
is bought for cooking and other immed.
late uses. 1t does not bear the price
of butter of the first quality and nc
merchant with a fixed place of business
seeks to deceive his customers in its
sale. It reveals its character to the
senses and if it's taste does not betraS
1t the first day its smell will the next
It cannot hide itself. In some tropica
market it's finds, great favor being con.
sumed in melted form like the goat
butter of the ancients, of which Plin1
SAYS in the 2Sth book of his natural his
tory: the more rank it is in smell the
more highly it is esteemed.
mot very long ago the late Presiden
Mckinley made an historic journey
passing thru Iowa, on his way to gree
the returning regiments of the volun.
teer Philippine army. One morning a:
lhis guests were all assembled in thu
smoking car, after an early breakfast
and there We're present, beside thu
president, the members of his cabinet
the governors of several states and sen
ators and representatives, nearly {
score in number. all Of them famous IL
the public life of these times. AS the,
were talking together they saw thu
president laughing benevolently t.
himself as he watched the antics of twt
boys near the roadside who appeared
TO be warming their feet in the place
o sort of oasis in the desert of frost
where an old COW had been lying dowl
ell night And turning to his compan!
the president said: Gentlemen, one o
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