The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-04-24

the OleOmarga DILL hnally becomes
law the credit of securing its passage
will be due largely to the Wisconsin
delegation in Congress. Senator
Ouar1es made his first extended speech
in the Senate in support of the bill
and his address is conceded to be one
of the ablest arguments brought out
during the debate. In the course of
the speech the Senator paid his re-
spects to the Chemically pure" argu-
ment of the opposition as follows:
"Mr. President, allow me for few
moments to speak of the defense that
is made here for oleomarg arine. Why,
| it is said, it is wholesome; it tastes
just as we'll and is just as pa1atable as
butter. Is that any answer to this in
dictment? The gravamen of this
charge is fraud; the germ of the COM
plant is imitation. There is no es-
cape by showing that the imitation is
successful, and that it is good arti-
Gle. That only shows the strength of
our case. It would not be dangerous if
it were not good. But we stand upon
the proposition, which I have before
enunciated, that when we have built up
good will for trade product no ad-
venturer may come in and dispossess
us of Our trade, purloin our profits,
and then justify himself by saying,
| "Oh, my product is just as good as
yours and just as palatable." That is
no answer under the trademark law;
it is no answer in equity; it is no an
swer in justice.
"We11," it is said, cit is chemically
as pure as butter" Mr.. President,
what is it to be chemically pure? This
all rests on the testimony of the chem
list. The chemist is the Mephistophe1es
of modern society. He has headquar-
tiers in every disti1lery, and by his
Inecromancy in an hours time con-
verts raw spirits into 1O-year-o1d
whisky. By a change of ingredients
and turn of the wrist high wine di-
rect1y from the still is converted into
old Holland gin. The poor fool, whose
vitals are being eaten out by the de-
coction, smacks his lips when he
drinks it and fancies he detects the
mel1ifuous flavor of age. Laughter.
| The chemist is particeps criminis in
every one of our food authorizations.
He is very jolly man; he stands back
at safe distance and sees the public
feeced according to his own machina-
tons; he has an o1eaginous face and
wears a smile that would grease a
wagon. Laughter AS has been
suggested here, it would be cold COM
fort for the individual whose vita1s
had been eaten out by this chemical
dose to receive the assurance of the
chemist that the stuff was chemically
pure.
"Mr. President, with the art which
the chemist commands he can take oil
that is rendered from the disease-in-
fected carcass of horse and in few
minutes he will present it to you in the
test tube chemically pure. There is
none of the sediment of decay in it,
because it has been deodorized by
chemicals. There is no taste that in
dicates decomposition, because power
full agents have been applied; it has
been divorced from death and disease,
but there is no human sense that can
detect its revolving history. Do you
yearn for that as an appetizing morsel
upon the assurance of the chemist that
it is chemically pure? Probably there
has been no field open to the chemist
which has been more remunerative or
successful than in giving o1eomargar-
line the semb1a nee of butter"