Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-12-28
TRUSTS AND LOBBYISTS ARE POWERFUL
They Are Gathering at washington to Fight Dairy
and Farm Interests


! for a systematic and determined on.
! slaught on the 10 cent tax on colored
oleomargarine Word comes from
Washington that Congressman B0utell
of Chicago, has prepared bill to be
presented 10 the ways and means com
mittee of which he is q member, qak-
ing the tax on all oleomargarine tts
per pound instead of 10 cents on the col
ored and I on the uncolored, as provided
in the law of June O. 1902 Boutell is a
member of the ways and means com
mittee of the house. This committee
has always been favorable to oleomar-
garine. 1t is the committee which is
supposed to have jurisdiction over all
revenue iegislatic Ii is a committee
which the dairyI have always been
careful to keep C of in order to Sc
cure any recognize n the house. Five
years ago when Mrg. lwney introduced
a harmless resolut2 calling upon the
secretary of the tr,2 lry for a state
ment of the quantip0 nd character of
| ingredients employeCa I the manufac.
ture of foleomargarines2 found Just one
supporter in seventeen2 &embers exclu-
sive OF himself notably9 lr Dolliver of
Iowa, now in the senate The commit.
tee made report adver3 20 giving the
house this information, a5 Mr.. Tawney
| brought the matter befo the house,
overturning the committee With two
| thirds majority There r. no question
therefore, that if Mr.. Boatell presents a
| bill reducing the coloreC olaom8rEarine
tax to cents per pound 1t will secure q
| prompt and favorable re port and recon.
| mendation at the hands of those who
are known as the house leaders, namely
The FIVE members of the committee on
rules This committee consists Of the
speaker, Cannon of Illinois Grosvenor
Of Ohio, DalZelI of Pennsyl gania, Will
Jams, democratic house leader Of Miss.
issippi, and one other southern democrat
Every member of this committee is
favorable to oleomarga-ine, although
Speaker Cannon, at the solicitation of
his farmer constituents, voted for the
passage of the Gout bill Thus it will
be observed that oleomargarine will have
smooth sailing through that portion of
it's career which was so stormy for the
| dairymen, who were compelled to fight
| for months against the greatest odds to
| get their measure into the house where
/ it could be voted upon. But where the
| dairymens trouble practically ended is
| where oleomargarines woes will begin
| 1t is strange thing that while those
| known aG the house leaders are almost
| wholly in sympathy with oleomargar ne,
the rank and file have not been so infu-
| enced Members like Payne of New
] York GrosvenOr of Ohio and others who
! have occupied positions Of prominence in
the house for years, gel out Of touch
| with their constituents The influence
of Washington society and official life is
| always favorable TO the monied inter
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| tions all have lobbyists at the capital
who work together to frustrate any ef-
| forts OF the people at large to protect
| their rights. The farmer or ordinary
citizen has few friends outside Of the of.
ficials Of organization sent there TO look
after their interests, and congressman
like Tawney, WHO keep in touch and
sympathy with thfir constituents and
refuse to be cont oiled by the smooth
and well groomed representatives Of the
| moneyed interests, VINO are eternally
devising some sharp scheme to get into
/ their goe1 graces TIE situBti3n may
| be summoned up therefore as follows
| The oleOmargarine interests will intro
| duce a bill reducing the tax on colored
| oleomargarine from 10 cents to cents
/ per pound. It win be referred, az Gus.
| tomary by request of its author, to the
| committee Of his choosing. He will
| choose the ways and means committee
| because his name is B0utell He is
member of that committee and that
| committee will give the measure a
| prompt and favorable report. There
/ will be no difficulty securing its early
| consideration, because every member Of
the committee on rules is favorable to
| oleomorgarine. Up to this stage the
| dairymen might as we'll be in Guinea,
so far as their Influence is concerned
| To go mp against :he oleomRrgarine ma
| lority on the ways and means committee
| would be sheer waste Of energy. Their
| work must all be done through heart to
heart talks with the congressman who
| represent them. The question is will
the dairymen be equal to the occasion
| On the Missouri agricultural college
| farm separator has been used to separ-
| ate the milk OF twenty eight cows twice
| day for four years, with less than
dollar Of expense for repairs
| A milk inspector dropped dow on
| Delaware county creamery and took
| four samples, three Of which be stated
was the worst he ever handled One of
the farmers claimed that the condition
| OF his milk was caused by the dense fog
which settled over his place at the milk
ing hour
A correspondent writes that he has re,
Gently witnessed demonstrations at In
| dependence, Iowa, by Frof. A. f Philip
son, of several processes for converting
| buttermilk into various valuable art
cles, Professor Philipson is q Dane and
now makes his headquarters at Dubuque,
| Iowa The demonstrations referred to
were in the Palmer Hubbard plant ut
! Independence From the buttermilk
Prof. Philipson makes hard and liquid
/ slue, mucilage, Neufchattel cheese ice
cream and delicious temperance drink
| at coet Of the manufacture so n oder
ate az to be almost nothing. The rev
enue derived from the sale Of these by
/ products will greatly enhance the pro-
fits Of dairying and the creamery bust /
ness In this country
The Elgin butter market has been 16 |
cents for the past two weeks
J. r. WIGCINToE /
Bloomingdale, December "a