The Saint Paul globe., 1902-01-24

ailments or accidents to cattle Your
creamery has not done or is not doing
we'll because you 90 not get enough milk
to keep expense down to small enough
your butter does not bring you it's worth
in the market in line with other food
products, and your patrons see no incan-
tive to improve their dairies a present
prices of feeding stuffs and present re-
wards for their labor.
You have the opportunity to change
this condition by helping the Tawney
Grout bill to a speedy enactment and so
secure for your product honest compad-
ton in the markets-honeSt competition
with oleomargarine because now your
butter completes with a cheap counterfeit.
where, after the passage of that bill, oleo-
margarine will have to compete as IN
easily recognized substitute.
Form of the Appeal.
The following is the copy Of the form
which they are also asked to sign and
send to their representatives in con-
gress:
Those interested in the passage Of the
Tawney-Grout bill are fully aware of the
attempts which Gave been made to place
them in the light of endeavoring to Sc
cure a law which will tax one indus
try out of existence at the expense of
another. "
In assuming that the tax of 1Oc per
pound on yellow oleomargarine will kin
the oleomargarine business, the manu-
tacturers thereof are admitting a num-
Der of Things which it appears would he
decidedly averse to the cause
First, they must thereby contend that
no other than colored oleomargarine is
sold. When they set up this claim
they admit their business is carried on
almost wholly in violation of the laws
OF the various states, as the internal rev.
enue departments report for the fiscal
year ending June co. 1899. show that of
the oleomargarine sold that year g., 725, ,5S2
pounds were sold in the states where the
colored product is absolutely forbidden
by law, and but 16,860,142 pounds went
INTO the states where the sale of the
yellow article is permitted under any
consideration.
Second, they are admitting that color
alone sells their product This means
that no matter what the price of but
ter, people would not take a cheap sub
Sutute that did not have an artificial
yellow coloring. Can anyone recall an
other article of food that never was
sold and never can be sold in it's nat
ural color? Isn't this a confession that
lhe people don't want oleomargarine?
DO people object to white ice cream?
DO they say they will not eat jellies
OF one color? Doesn't this show that
their repugnance is not for the natural
white color of the mixture but for the
character of the ingredients which the
lack of color makes known and which
should be manifest to every consumer at
the table?
This principle of making a distinction
between the two articles in color has
proven so simple, and to those who nave
STUDIED the question, so manifestly prac-
tlcaI and just, that it is difficult from the
standpoint of consumers to understand
why such remedy for preventing fraud
should be antagonized, particularly when
1t has the approval of the legislatures
of two-thirds of the states of the United
States.
What we seek to discourage by the 1Oc
tax is outlawed by thirty-two leading
states ID rt tHd of
highest courts Why should it be de-
Tended in congress?
1t is hoped to get 20,O0O letters sent to
Washington by the end of this week.