The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1907-04-25
AT the fashionable Emporium OF Rutland.
ROSS.HuntreSS"C Co.
Corner West and Grove Streets,
Rutland, Vermont

each other, but could not protect them
from the citizens of other states. II
was finally seen that, because Of their
inability to cross the state line, the
state laws worked an injustice. So,
after many years of agitation, congress
enacted law designed to protect the
citizens of one state against the ma
chinations of the citizens Of another
state.
A man who sells you something for
butter whichis not butter is deceiver.
This is a simple illustration of the
character Of the ethical principle which
has been violated in trade and which
has made it necessary to have these
laws to protect the honest manufactur-
er and jobber against the deceiver.
One day last winter some one sept
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cial lamb chops-bones on which meat
cut from just behind the ear had been
threaded very carefully to make them
appear like lamb chops. 1t is all right
TO sell old bones as old bones, or meat
behind the ear by its proper name, but
to sell combination Of old bones and
meat from behind the ear as lamb
chops is a rank deception. 1t is vio-
lation Of the principle of ethics in
trade.
Since the National Pure Food law
has been put into effect we have had
protest from millers' association
honest men they are naturally-millers
are always honest men. The secretary
of agriculture, being an honest, man
himself, had issued an order to the ef-
feet that when a miller sold rye flour
it should be. simply rye -four, and not
a mixture Of rye -four and -four made
from some Uther grain. " The secretary.
said 10 the millers:
IF you send flour labeled rye
-four out OF one state into another, you
will violate the law unless the flour you
ship is pure rye -four, and if | can
catch you. you will get into trouble"
The millers in annual convention de-
nounced this ruling, They said they
hac been mixing wheat -four and rye
-four for, forty years and selling the
mixture as rye -four, and they Intended
to keep on doing it. There is nc. obs
lection on the part of the department
to selling the mixture of rye f5ur and
wheat tlonr. but when syh mixture
il sold as pure rye -four yod gstsssp,he
thing you. don't buy and you pay. for
something you dou't 9s&;sj!'Sff
1t is worse than this With buefyieat-
We are all fond OF buckwheat cakes, !,
am sure, But how mpy WHO order
bucksheat cakes in. Oh mo&6g are
certain that they are going TO eat buck,
wheat cskssi " will .verture the as
sertion-though ! cannot prove it,.
that no city folks ,sst buckWbeat cakes
in the morning, or at any other time.
Maybe they eat something Better--a
mixture of other fours with the buck.
wheat may make it better-but that
is not the point-they don't get what
they order. And when they use maple
syrup on the "buckwheat cakes" are
they getting maple syrapi Yes, on
the label. There is a nice picture Of
maple trees on the can and the word
maple is very prominent, but tha, is
all the maple there is about 4. We
had this same trouble with large firm
that has been selling IN .3le tyrup fr
forty years, THIS Grm sell, mofti"ma.
pie syrup" every year than is made;
yea. ten tiuies oysr,. .jp the Limited
States-iust this one firm, and There il
not maple tree within 800 miles Of
their factory, and doubt y skingle
member N the firm would know q mn.
pie tree il he saw il. The maple trees
with which they nre most fas,iliar are
IN the picture OF n sugar camp on the
label. why. this won't d." we said,
that is not right; you are seilisg here,
under the name Of maple, syrup
which is not maple syrup" They re,
Piled: .
well. We know that. bat il Is by,
Ter syrup thaa you ever made ont o!
maple trees"
I'VE may grant that" we answered
but The Law says that i you nisbrsnc
any article you are IiAbas " iine anc
Imprisonment"