Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-04-17

for butter and by deceit
| Coming over to Philadelpha-becausc
want to call your attention to only two
or three incdents--I find the record made
i by Mr.. Kaufman, who was conducting the
prosecutions against violators of the anti
color law in that city, says there were 5OS
instances coming under his observation
where butter was called for and presum-
ably procured Four hundred and hfty-
nine on examination and analysis proved
to be oleom1rgarine and only ~ of them
proved to be butter The secretary of agri-
culture of PENNSYLVANIA said that he took
n thousand samples and In each case those
samples proved to be oleomargarine
Now, coming to the city of Washington,
Mr. Knight testified as follows:
made a search of this town, in COM
| pany with representative from Ne
hrnska, Representative IIaugen Of Iowa
| and Representative Dahle of Wiscon-
| sin, and we searched every place to find
package of oleomargarine in parch-
/ mcnt paper that had any printing on 1t
at all, and we failed to find one in the
i city.
A circumstance has come to my personal
know ledge which occurred in the city OF
! Washington and indicates the way the
business has been done under existing law.
! | was appointed last year as one of the
visiting trustees of the Government Re
form school located in this city, and when
custom of the officers of that school to ad-
lvcrtisc monthly for the supplies needed
during the next month. They did this on
one occasion. They advertised for ol o.
margarine They advertised also for BUT
ter. They procured both, as they supposed.
Before the month was gone they were in
doubt and caused both samples to h" OK
amined at the department of Agriculture.
One was found to be oleomargarine, and
that which had been bought for butter was
also found to be oleomargarine, and the
government of the United States had been
paying IA cents for oleomargarine bought
as olcomargarine and paying % cents for
precisely the same article furnished under
the name of butter and in answer to the
contract which they had made with the
grocer to furnish butter.
| have mentioned these instances just as
! illustrations of what has been going on all
over the United States. and it cannot be
wondered that the people are aroused up
on this subject and that they are intensely
interested to have the traffic stopped when
It Is attempted to be carried on by Il profit
able system of fraud
The fraud which has been practiced is
admitted by the substitute bill. because
the bill itself contains only provisions
adopted to prevent deceit. All admit, on
both sides of the chamber, that legislation
must be had, but the question TO be de-
termncd is whether that legislation shall
| be controlled by the manufacturers of an
article through which there has been per-
petratcd upon the American people a great
fraud? Shall the manufacturers say what
| il shall be? Shall they have preserved TO
them the right OF color through which such
deceit is perpetrated?
The report of the minority of the COM
mittee, which has been laid upon our desks.
contains this statement
The alleged frauds committed in the
| sale Of oleoinargarine are not attributed
| to the manufacturers, upon whom tho
| tax falls. but upon the retail dealers.
This was newAto me. My investigation
of the subject led me to think that the
manufacturers We're the parties who were
Irresponsible for the fraud. When | noticed
this | remembered that the names of a
few of the corporations engaged in the
manufacture of oleomargarine were sug-
gestive of guilt. referring to them. the
very first name | came across was that Of
a concern in Providence r. l., which has
adopted the name of the Vermont Manu-
featuring company? 1t is not Vermont
institution. nor is it Nermonter who is
running it: but Vermont is famed for her
butter. Was it not adopted for the pur-
pose of creating false impression?
Mr. President. what has been accomp
lished by this deception? The census taken
in 1890 shows that the entire lands, build
ings, and machinery of those employed in
-. a,,I,, s,eE 100 thot tbe i've asset: of
,hosa co,nnratiors Vac or,v s5oo 00O and
a.. ,ha ,nnoha. of ,yorlr,ar en,nloyod in
tho ,nannfoctnre ~ o,aomnrgayine taxing
H. n,orLrnan ~ eyery class was loss tban
, snn- orIy In fact about > aoo In the 10
,.aor, ,,hioh alon.od until tho caneus of
inno ,,itb ,,,ore tbar twothirds of the
Sta,oa cor,Doeinp orr Union lepislatinr
AGAINST tbn sa1o or o,eomarrariue cnlored
in i,,itn+iop of hutter with the national
,nv in full oneration we find there has
heen an increase of 100 per cent in the num-
bar nf estnhIishmcnts tor the manufacture
of mis- article that the capital invested in
i, has increased 37G ner cent that the SAL
aries mid tn ennlovns have increased 5l5
nor Govt and that the products have in
CREASED 3lS ocr cent
We md that the number of manucactu-
rers Al mis- ,Imn is IA. that they have lsG
vholasalo dealers who are really agents
when their product is sent into an these
etot,s To he disDosed of contrary TO Law.
,hot the retailers of this article in Chicago
alone number $500. that the retail IS in
tho I nit,d States number 10 900 and thar
through these wholesalers and retlilers II,
NO, cont of the entire product of oleo,nar
garino ie unloaded in tho mgnn,r have
doscribod and in states having an anti
color lov
Nv coIlcnrro MR. PROCTOR in on-nin,
,hie 1iscuseion called vour 1ttentinn IN
,bn circular Of William 7 Mov1o,. ono of
mo Inronst manufacturers of nlocnorr,r
inc I'm tbc I-ritcd states and that rircI,lor
chou,s ,,.r,- clearly h,v This vvor,s b,., beer
Iono In II he say.. .,,vc ,ar c,,,., i,,,,
what Won want at all seasons if we know