The progressive farmer., 1902-02-25
DANGEROUS LEGISLATION.

The Post Is opposed so she measure
known as the oleOmargarine bill
which passed the House last week
and Ia now pending in the Senate
The Post objects to the measure ae
now constructed, first, because is il
distinctly and essentially GLASS 1egis-
lation of the most fragrant and per
nioious character. There is not a
line in the statutes that can contrib
ute so directly 80 the trust princlple
and trust methods as this measure
oontemplates, and which, if it be
comes u law will be at least justifi-
cation Of all that has gone before of
this nature, anu an established pre-
cedent for worse to come.
In the second place we object to it
because it is directly hurtful to the
farmers of the Sou5h who raise Cat
tie and cotton. More Southern farm
ers raise cotton than cattle, and
more Southern farmers raise cattle
than can be expected TO engage in
butter making commercially. Tne
beef fats and cotton seed oil oOnsti
tute the body of the OleOmargarine,
40 odd per cent-49 we think-of the
cotton seed oil produced in 1900 be-
ing consumed in this way, thereby
creating d most important market
Ior the product and necessarily en-
hanolng It's price.
Pure creamery butter-when pure
and clean-sells readily, indeed the
supply does not equal the demand In
any market-for from 80 TO 40 cents
per pound. A large majority or the
population cannot afford butter at
that price.
Pure Oieomargarine which is not
only as whOles JMe but as palata BILE
as the genuine creamery, anu pos
sesses TAR superior keeping Qualities,
can be and is sold for % cents per
pound, thus affOrding the masses
# people healthtul luxury if you
please at u price within their means.
But oleO is colored SO initiate but
ter. Not pound of pure creamery
butter, made for general markets,
but Is cOlUred with the same matter
used so color OleO. If 1t is harmless
and proper as 80 the one it should be
equally 30 as 80 the other. Reno
Waited butter-the rancid, unsala BILE
stocks If country buster washed
over, chemically treated and "col-
Ored lis put upon the market as
pure creamery = and is said Can be
sold tor less than the regular dairy.
Immense factories for the manufac-
turing of this class { f butter have
been es tablished. The esta bhs hment
and maintenance of these renovatlng
factories, and the rapid developments
of the Oieo prodGc5 is oOnclusi> evi-
denCe of a popular demand for
cheaper arIiCle than the dairies can
supply, and of a demand for Ii greater
supply than the dalries are prepared
to meet.
There is a demand at prices rang
ing from 80 cents up, for every
pound OF good dairy butter that Can
be put on the market. The trouble
is that all that is put on the market
as ''good dairy butter" is not what
is is claimed to be, and in far too
many instances is in better conQi-
tiOn for the renovatIng factory than
for the table. There is wide open
and most inviting fold for the "two
or three score of young men and one
young lady" who are taking advan
tage of the excellent opportunities
afforded by our A. and M College to
learn the important art Of making
good butter. But the price for
which eacn and every one of them
will wish to sell butter is bsyond
that which the mass of people can af
tord to pay, and for tOis latter and
much larger class pure oleo supplies
a want and should not be destroyed
as the pending bill in Congress pro
poses tJ do. That cleymargarlne.
and renovated butter as we'll, should
be sold under is own name resDec
lively and nCtas creamery butter"
Is a proposition supported by com,
mon honesty. No honest man can
object to this, Mr. do we soc how
any honest man oan object TO the
use of coloring by which cleo and
the renovated article are made to
look better at the same time Justify
the use of the same methods to i'm
prOve-nOt the taste or character