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| their retailers and Offering their varle,
OF oeomargarire, known as Purity a
IA cents pound, and advising the retailc
that IL could be sold at 20 cents. making
profit to the retailer of G cents u pound
that they would sell the Buckeye" bran
at II cents pound, and that 1t could b
easily sold for % cents a pound, "a profit O
I S cents pound: and that the pride" va
| riety could be sold at Is cents a pound ant
retailed at 30. or at profit of II cents
pound.
The senator from North Carolin (Nir
Simmons) says that Secretary Gage tcs
tined that the temptation would be to-
small under the substitute bill to lead an
retailer to remove the labels and sell col
ored oleonargarine as butter; but If tn
profit upon 1t Is as large as indicated, yol
can see at glance that both tcmpta
tlon and opportunity still remain to re
move the stamps and the wrappers from
the packages and to pack the substance II
tubs and sell it for butter. as was dom
by wilkins with the carload of oleomar
earine in Philadelphia.
Now the question suggests itself whethe
manufacturers supporting the substitute
bill shall through its provisions secure t
the retailer an opportunity to defraud tn
public and impose upon them an artcl
deceptive in character.
The real object they seek is well e!
pressed by the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States in what is known as the Plum
ley case to which have already referred
In that case it appeared that oleomargar
Inc in its natural condhion Is of Ugh
ycllowish color and that the article soil
by the accused was artiiicially colored I'll
imitation Of yellow butter" The cour
says
Now, the real object of colcrng oleo-
margarine so as to make it look like
genuine butter is that 1t may appear to
be what it is rot, and thus induce UNI
wary purchasers, who do not closely
scrutnize the label upon the package
in which it Is contained, to buy it as
and for butter produced from unadul-
terated milk, or cream from such milk.
The suggestion that oieomargarinc is
artificially colored so as to render 1t
more palatable and attractive can Only
mean that customers are deluded by
such colration into believing that they
are getting genuine butter. If anyone
thinks that oleonargarine. not artii-
cialy colored so as to cause it to 10
like butter, is as palatablc or as whole
some for purposes of food as pure but
ter, he is as already observed at lib
erty under the statute of Massachu-
sets to manufacture it In that State
or to sell II here in such manner as to
inform the customer of it's real ch2rac-
ter. He is only forbidden to practice,
in such matters. fraud upon the gen
eral public The statute seeks to sup
press false pretences and to promote
fair dealing in the sale of an article
Of food. 1t compels the sale of oleo-
margarine for what 1t really is. by pre-
venting its sale for what 1t Is not
But the distinguished senator from Mis-
sissppi (Mr. Money!, after quoting tn
opinion of Professor Schweitzcr, t. tn
effect that. if carefully made, physioog
,-al II
whatever in the palatabilty and digestibil
ity between butterine and butter, mad
the inquiry. "If these things be true. wha
is the harm if man intending to bu,
butter shall buy huttcrine by fraudulen
imposition Of his dealer?"
The normal heat of the human stom
ach is 9S degrees. Butter melts at %
degrees, 6 degrees below the neat of the
stomach, passes into pancreatic emul-
sion. and digestion. Nature designed
this fat in its raw state for food.
Gov. Hoard of Winconsn, who has givci
this matter great attention, says:
Oeomargarne meltS at the varying
temperature of 1O2 to los degrees. a
temperature no healthfu stomach ever
attains. AS a consequence this unnat-
tural foreign fat must be expelled by
sheer gastric action and force.
Butter FAT is found in the milk of all
mammals. 1t is chemically and ply
sically unlike any other fat in exist
cnce. 1t was designed by nature for
the food and sustenance Of infant Off
spring. having the most delicate of all
digestion. Because of this most evil
don't purpose and provision of nature
butter form a healthful and important
article of food in milk, cream. and in
its St parated state.
Governor Hoard has for twenty years
been investigating the subject of dairy pro
ducts. He has made an exhaustive study
of them. l do not know of any man II
America, perhaps. who is better inform, {
regarding them than Governor Hoard.
Now, answering the question in anu he
way, suppose that we carry the same in
quiry to the article of milk as a TO i.
have an ingenious neighbor who. year
ago, when people We're making i'll c.
cheese, invented machine by viii I
melted lard could be so combined witt
skinned milk that t. would enter into tho
curd ana furnish the fat for filled cheese
SuppoSe olcomargarine is permitted, with
out discouraSement, to be Colored like but
ter, why should not the dealer in mill
haN" Tho right to color his mixture oi
skinned milk ami lard in scmblance o.
Jersey milk and impose it upon his custo
mcrs? What would prevent the r. stau
rants from serving it to us as half an
half Wncn We go for our daily lunch
We could not tell the difference. If t,
Imposition is right in one instance, why
not in the other?
The truth Is, Mr.. President, that the
American people are getting sick Of be- ms
hnmbueced. whether it is by imitatini
batter. whether it is by adulterat, mi X
whether II is by aduterated maple sugar
or whether 1t is by honey that is N de OF
glucose. We have a committee If is
senate that is investigating this very que
ton committee that sat in all the prln
opal cities year on two ago taking tt-ti-
monN. and committee that Will. hope
very soon he able to present \ measure
here that shall be- so effective in it's rptra
lions that The American people will be pro
tectod in their rights, at least in sec ur
Ing that which is pure and wholesome an
good as an article of food.
Coming again to the question OF color
and whether the makers of oleomargarin
nave the right to US" this color, as they
nave done. in foistine upon the public q
spurious article, ] beg to refer TO "A case
recently decided in the Supreme Court.
think the opinion was handed down on the
9Th of January of this year 1t was tho
case of thc Dairy company vs.. Ohio. Ir
1t the court used this language:
The supreme court of Ohio, however,
having before it the evidence intro
duced UPON the issues of fact made in
the pleadings. held that oleom argarine
was an article which might easily be
manufactured so ms to be hurtful, and
thus result in fraud upon and injury
to the public, and that the inhibition of
the use of cOlorlng matter in oeomar.
rarine vas reasonable police regula-
ton tending to insure the public against
fraud and injury. The purpose Of the
legislature In permitting the use OF
harmless coloring matter in butter and