The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-02-14
IMMENSE. QUANTITIES
SOLD IN CANTON
One Manufactures Finds Q
Market for 40, 900 Pounds Z
. Month In This city--
Claim Tax ls Pro-. +
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Washington, OF the bill placing ? high
tax on oleomargarine, congress has
started into activity all the oleO manu-
facturers and dealers in the country.
Thousands Of pounds OF oleomarga-
rine, or butterine, as 1t Is sometimes
called, are sold every week in Canton.
Naturally the heavy dealers in the
product in this city are thoroughly
alarmed and all of them are looking
to the manufacturers to effect some
means to defeat the bill before 1t
reaches the president.
The effort to place such tax upon
oleomargarine is credited by the man
ufacturers to the Western Dairy asso-
citation, a combination of western but
ter dealers who have been supplying
the eastern markets with most OF the
butter that Is being used, A bill sim
liar to the one passed by the house on
Wednesday was taken up and passed
by the same body In December OF
1900. A number of prominent manu-
facturers-one from this state-then
went before the senate committee to
make a statement of the case, and the
bill was never considered in that body.
THOUSANDS OF POUNDS A YEAR.
In Canton there are thousands OF
pounds of the stuff sold every week.
One dealer on East Tuscarawas street
disposes Of 10000 pounds Of 1t In
year. Other dealers sell nearly as
much Almost every restaurant and
boarding house in the city uses the
stuff on the table and many consumers
prefer 1t to butter. $50
l,,kk {r rod a
by the farmers in the vicinity OF Can
ton, and it is now claimed that
throughout the east butter-making re-
ceives but little attention from the
farmers. Some of them, a Canton deal
CT declared yesterday, dispose OF their
milk and butter at the store and pur-
chase butterine for home use.
Oleo manufacturers claim that no
body is opposed to the manufacture Of
butterine except the big dairy concerns.
They say the original opposition to
its-use has greatly subsidized. Certain
It is that the stuff pays an immense
revenue to the government. Last year
one manufacturing concern in Colum-
bus paid, as the result of the 2-cent-a
pound tax, $360,000. Besides this tax
the manufacturer must pay 5000 q
year for the privilege Of making the
stuff; the wholesale dealer must pay
$3.50 for handling 1t and the retailer
must pay $48 year as a license to sell
II. This yielded the government dur
ing last year. over $5,000,000.
There are two large oleo factories
In Ohio. They are the Capital City
Dairy company. of Columbus, and the
Union Dairy company, Of Cleveland.
The output at the Columbus works for
the present year will reach, 1t is stated.
25, ,000, 900 pounds. .at.1t
CRIPPLE OLEO MANUFACTURE
1.-THE proposed tax is an outrage"
said Louis DumOnt, a grocer on South
Market street. "The legislation aims
at colored oleomargarine, while every
pound of creamery butter, which Is
colored, Is allowed to be sold undls-
turbed."
Mr.. Dumont buys all OF his finest
creamery butter from an Aurora, ILL.,,
he declares, contains as much coloring
matter as oleomargarine. This COM
pnny ships about Is carloads Of colored
butter every day and is not to be COM
pc!led to pay tax.
The tax of 10 cents pound pro-
posed to bo placed on colored butter
!no would completely cripple the in
dustry, Mr.. Dumont says. Pure but
terIne, uncolored, can not be sold.
Mr.. Dumont said that when the stuff
was first sold he tried to dispose Of 120
pounds OF the uncolored product, but
that not one pound of 1t was sold.
II could not give II away" he said.
Every pound of the colored stuff
that is sold out OF this place is plain
Iy stamped. Every purchaser knows
what he is buying even IL it is color
ed"
COMES IN GREAT QUANTITIES.
The best oleo sells for 20 cents q
pound. Other grades sell for 15 and 18
cents pound. Common county but
ter sells for "a cents pound and
creamery butter sells for 80 cents
pound. Mr.. Dumont says that he sells
On an average of about 400 pounds of
butterine every week. He says that
no frequently buys butter from tha
farmers who Immediately invest in
oleomargar!ne to be used at home.
l.. Henry, q broker on West Eighth
street, Ia the agent for Stark and
Summit counties OF the Capital City
Dairy company. Of Columbus. In this
dictrict Mr.. Henry says that he sells
10000 pounds of the stuff each month
II the tax Of 10 cents pound were
imposed on butterine, Mr.. Henry says
that the whole industry would be
ruined. However, he expects the pres
ent bill to meet the same fate as the
former cone. The Investment of the
Capital City Dairy company amounts
to about $4,000. .st
Tho present price which the dealer
pays to the manufacturer for the pro-
duct is 15 cents pound. II the grocer
wore compelled to pay 2S cents a
pound for the butterine II would place
the selling price above that OF the or
dinary butter and It would hnd no
market.