Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-09
PENROSE TO LEAD
THE BUTTER FIGHT
Pennsylvania Senator Champion
Of Dairy Interests.
TO FOLLOW TARIFF VlCTOhY
Republican Leader of the Keystone
State to Lead the Forces of the
Agricultural interests at the Next
Session of the National Congress.
Special Correspondence. |

Session Of the National Congress-.
Especial Correspondence
Harrisburg, Pa, Sept. 7.
Reports from every section of the
state confirm the predictions that the
farmers of Pennsylvania would be
found standing Loyalty by the Repub-
lican party in the present state cam
paign.
In the framing of the tariff bill
which was recently passed at Wash
ington, the interests Of the f.rIers
and dairymen of the keystone State
We're carefully looked after by the Re-
publican representatives in congress,
and by also conserving the welfare of
the wage earners and capitalists iden.
titled with great industrial concerns.
the same Republican representatives
promoted the general good.
The farmers thrive when their fell
low countrymen are employed at re-
munerative wages, for the great army
of workers in the factories and mines
and in commercial life are the pur-
chasers of the products of the farms.
From every quarter comes the news
of revival of business and the relfght-
ing of the fires of the coke ovens and
the furnaces of great manufacturing
plants as the direct result of the pas
sage of a Republican tariff bill.
To Lead Fight For Farmers.
Senator Penrose, who filled a most
important role as leading member of
the United States senates finance
committee in drafting the tariff act,
had the hearty cooperation of his col
league. the junior United States Sena-
tor George T. oliver and every one of
the Republican members of the house
from Pennsylvania.
Now that the tariff issue has been
settled prominent factors among the
grangers and the dairymen of this
state have inaugurated a movement
for national protection for the butter
makers against the sale of oleomar-
garine and other similar products in
imitation of butter
AS he did in the tariff agitation.
Senator Penrose has come to the front
as the champion of the dairy interests
of his native state and the country at
large as well.
He has recognized the numerous de-
fects In federal statutes which govern
the manufacture and sale of oleomar-
garine, butterine renovated or pro-
cess butter and adulterated butter and
he has agreed to cooperate with the
prominent leaders of the Grange.
Pure Butter Protective Association.
the National Dairy Union and kindred
agricultural organizations that wish
to see these evils corrected at the ses-
sion Of the Sixty-frst congress. which
conv.nes in December next.
To Draft New Eil
Senator Pcnrose has requested a
-comnittee of the State Grange OF
Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania state
department of agriculture and the
Pure Butter Protective association of
Pennsylvania, with A. H. Woodward
of Clearfeld, and Assistant United
Jr.. as attorneys, to prepare a bill
which Senator Penrose will introduce
as soon as congress shall reconvene.
Senator Penrose says the defective
character of the national laws works
great injury to dairymen, farmers.
merchants and consumers. The pro
posed measure is to be drafted with
the greatest care. and while 1t will
not prevent the legal manufacture and
sale of oleomargarine and other but
ter substitute 1t will certainly pre-
vent the sale of these products for
butter.
Farmers, dairymen and all fair
minded people do not object to the
manufacture and sale of oleomarga-
rine for what 1t is, but they do very
properly oppose the marketing OF this
commodity as the genuine product of
the COW.
Statistics from the Pennsylvania de-
partment of agriculture show that
about 80 per cent of oleomargarine
sold at retail is represented by the
venders to be pure butter
Deception of this kind is a great
detriment to the dairyman, and it also
enables INSCRIPTIONS dealers to de.
fraud consumers who are induced to
pay a price for oleomargarine consid-
erably in excess of its real market
value
1t is held that the word knowingly"
should be omitted from the oleomar-
garine laws because in many cases It
has been found impossible to secure
convictions on account of inability to
prove that the offender knowingly vio-
lated the law. 1t is also held that the
definition OF oleomargarne should be
so changed that butter with or with
out coloring matter. could not be used
in Its manufacture, and that stamps
should be visible and a record kept of
the serial numbers so that every pack