Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-13
VINEGAR MAKERS OBJECT
Strong Opposition Develops to the Law
Prohibiting Use Of Co.oring Waiter
ITS INTENTION is TO PREVENT FRAUD
statute Makes "a Impossible TO sell
limitations for the Real cider
ArticIe-work on Pack
ing Rates.
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Prom a Stan Correspondent
DIES MONIES. May 12.-CSpecial.) WINE
gar manufacturers are up in the air be-
cause they have discovered that the last
legislature enacted a law that prevents
vinegar being colored. The coloring mat
ter heretofore has never been more than
the innocent coloring from burnt sugar
They argue that this never hurt anyone
and that they think the pure food law has
gone too far in prohibiting coloring entirely
They argue further that the public has
been educated to use brown vinegar and
II II is white they will not buy It at any
price. Several OF them are claiming that
they will have to shut up shop and quit
manufacturing vinegar
The office of the food and dairy commits
sloner is, however not alarmed nor STAN
peded by the statements of the vinegar men.
In the first place it is pointed out by him
that the reason the vinegar men want to
color their vinegar is that they may be
able to sell a manufactured vinegar under
a deception as pure cider vinegar. In
the next place. It IS pointed out that IT is
impossible to COMPEL the labelling of vine
gar with the statement Of the contents
for the reason that II is never sold in the
manufacturers package, but is practically
always sold from the barrel, and IT is i'm
possible or next to impossible to force the
! retailer to label the package of vinegar
! that he puts out The law that was en-
| acted by the last legislature on the vinegar
question is the same that in many other
] states of the union, there being a list Of
/ twenty-one. including Nebraska and South
| Dakota, that have adopted such a law.
vinegar manufacturers in Iowa have hur-
ried their lawyers to Des Moines on the
discovery of the new law in the hope of in
ducing the food and dairy commissioner to
| make some ruling that would allow them
! to go on coloring their acid vnegars and
sell them for pure cider They treated the
matter as though IL was some mistake of
the legislature but have found that from
the standpoint of the food and dairy COM
| missioner It was no mistake at all and that
the various vinegars will hereafter have to
be sold in Iowa for just what they are, and
that whether the public always wants a
brown vinegar or not, 1t cannot be deluded
into buying vinegar for what It is not.
The new Iowa pure food law, or the
amendment that was adopted at the session
that but recently adjourned, recognizes six
kinds Of vinegar. and it gives a definition
Of each that cannot be mistaken. These
six kinds are vinegar made from apple
Juice vinegar made from grape Juice, malt
vinegar made from barley malt, sugar Vine
gar, glucose vinegar and spirit vinegar, the
last being made from the acetus fermenta-
ton of dilute distilled alcohol. 1t is this
last kind that the vinegar men want to
sell as pure cider vinegar after coloring 1t
with burnt sugar. Since the new law pro-
hibts coloring vinegar in any way, they
are no longer able to do so. The law reads:
Vinegar sha.llrl1e deemed to be adulterated
II it contains any added coloring matter"
1 HnrdIH&7 for Speaker.
| NJ. 7. TardinQ Of Sioux
i City has been IN cDes Moines for several
days on business, legal and otherwise.
Mr.. Harding is a, lawyer from Sioux city
and served his first session of the legis-
lature last winter. There are a very great
many of the members of the legislature
who expect to return for the next session
of the Legislature who are boosting for
Harding for speaker. There is every evil
dence furthermore that the campaign will
be one of considerable spirit.
D, Want to Fix Packing Rates.
Before the State Railroad commission is
through with its series Of hearings on the
question of freight rates and their readjust-
ment its attention may be called to the
question Of live stock and packing house
product rates, more especially the relation
between the two. There is something Of
in the minds Of many that the rates may
be so adjusted as to build up big packing
centers in the state of Iowa The first sug-
gestion as to a method is to make the
rates on the live stock out of the State
high and the rates on the dressed meat In
side the state low, The farmers and stock
raisers, however. do not give much con-
slderation to the question OF the packing
Industry. They are accused of seeing
the markets where they are now located
and of wanting the cheapest rate possible
ing up packing houses in Iowa are quoting
Ex-Governor Larrabee. who said that there
should be many packing houses scattered
over the state of Iowa. They are in hopes
that the railroad commission may so ad-
just the rates as to make 1t profitable for
the packing houses to be built in Iowa.
Register Next Week.
The next Iowa Ofiicial Register will be
printed and ready for distribution some
time the coming week. The Register is a
volume containing a vast amount OF in
formation about the state and the state
government. 1t contains statistics of all
kinds relating to Iowa that is OF value to
Iowans. This year for the first time It
appears In larger size and is a more ex-
tensive document in accordance with a
bill passed by the legislature
The register this year will contain in its
: enlarged form great deal OF information
: not heretofore given. Among other things