Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-03-27

Sumed and HansbrOugh, N. D., contin-
ued his speech in support of the meas
ure. He charged that the oleomar-
garine manufacturers employed meth
DDS which were not at all creditable
and said they We're opposing the pend
| ing bill because it's enactment no longer
would render profitable their traffic
Mhich-had been placed under the ban
by the Legislatures Of many of the
states.
He declared that the oleomargarine
| manufacturers were pleading before
Congress for a business that had been
outlawed by many states.
In conclusion Hansbrough insisted
| that oleomargarne should be compelled
| to take off its mask and come upon the
market for what it really was and not
as a fraudulent imitation of a more
valuable product.
In opposition to the pending meas
ure, Stewart, New, said he was "un-
able to discover any principle of legis-
latiOn that warrants such a bill as
this" Stewart further said that he
saw no more reason for taxing colored
oleomargarine than for taxing colored
butter. He declared that the butter
makers were palming off unclean and
unwholesome buffers upon the con-
sumers by coloring it, and yet they
CLAIMED that Oleomargarine makers
had no right to color their product. He
insisted that the proposed legislation
was unnecessary, as there was no evil
to remedy.
Dolliver, Ia, spoke in support of the
pending measure. He said the oleo-
margarine manufacturers by their eva
sion of the laws already upon the stat
ute books had put themselves in part
nership with lawlessness and false pre-
tences.
In the course of his speech Dolliver
declared that the oleomargarine manu-
facturers and some of the dealers in
the article were constantly evading the
law of 1856, which provided that every
package of oieomargarine should be
stamped plainly. In proof Of his state
ments he exhibited package of oleo-
margarine which he had purchased
from a famous butter dealer" in Chi
cago. He said the package was marked
but 1t would tax any mans ingenuity
to find the mark. He then handed the
package to Tillman and challenged him
to find the mark required by law to be
on the wrapper. Tillman failed to dis
cover the imprint. Dolliver pointed If
out, printed in fine type in a corner of
the wrapper The incident excited live
ly interest and amusement.
Dolliver referred to a weIl-known
oleomargarine and butter dealer in
Chlcago VINO had spent more than half
or his time in the courts for violation
OF the oleomargarine bill. ''And he
never gets into the courts" said he.
but he finds there side by side with
him the attorneys for the oleomargar-
ine manufacturers
Dolliver declared that the ONLY wav "to
break up a nest like this was "to ra
duce to minimum the profits of the ras-
cality.''
Dolliver sharply arraigned Stewart for
a statement that much butter was made
In conditions of squallor and disease IL
lustrating the interest Of the greatest OF
our people in the farm he described an
incident which occurred on the late Pres
ident McKinley's last western tour. AS
the train was passing through Iowa early
one morning, the President was observed
to be laughing to himself as he watchedl
the antics of two boys warming theirl
feet on the spot where a COW had been
lying during the night
Gentlemen said President McKinley.
lone of the pleasantest and most de-
lightful recollections of my boyhood is
the solid comfort which those boys are |
now having-warming frost-bitten feet In |
the place where cows have been lying.
/ wonder how many of you have had
similar experience
One after another of the members of
the cabinet, governors, senators and rep
resentatives who were of the party, bore
witness to the same experience, begin
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