The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-03

70 one and half pounds left in tn
milk. The butter fat thus extracte
from the milk was substituted by a
artificial fat, which is perfectly harm
less and wholesome. After this
cheese was made. which contained al
the necessary fat which full cream
cheese should contain. This chees
was wholesome article and coult
always be sold at a very reasonable
price. | admit that many frauds were
committed by INSCRIPTIONS dealers
who sold this article as full cream
cheese. If the cheese was properl.
made it was hard even for an expert
to make distinction between this
| filled cheese and full cream cheese.
1t was only natural that these
modes of manufacturing had depre
ciating effect on the prices of cheese
and butter in general. The farmer
wanted to have the manufacture OF
filled cheese restricted, and a law was
passed regulating the manufacture of
filled cheese, but its provisions were
| SO severe that the law is a dead let.
tier as nobody dreams nowadays of
manufacturing filled cheese.
Next came butterine. To my
knowledge | never ate any butterine
in my life. ! always bought creamery
butter, but am convinced neverthe.
less that have consumed lots of il
without knowing the difference. At
present the heavy tax on butterine is
making the article comparatively ex-
pensive. The farmers knows this
very well and acts accordingly
The pure food law has certainly
some very good features, but in many
instances the officials are going too
far 1t has been necessary to create
an army of inspectors, and every one
OF them wants to show that he is do
ing something; that he is valuable
officer whose services are necessary
to the government. Unless this
army of inspectors show their efficien-
cy they will lose their positions so in
many cases they make themselves UNI
necessarily important and inlict
hardships on the honest men engaged
in the grocery Or produce or any SINH
lar business. Ultimately the consum-
err has to pay this army of inspectors
Indirectly and naturally that adds to
the cost of living. At the present
high prices of all foodstuffs. wholesale
merchants as well as retailers can
hardly add their legitimate profit, 9TH
erwise they will not be able to sell
the goods 1t is not with the retail |
or wholesale dealer that our legisla- /
tors have to begin their inquiries
about the high prices. They must go
to the root of the evil
Suppose they would remove the
tax on the much maligne1 butterine.
This would have wonderful effect in |
bringing down butter prices, and the /
prices of milk and cheese as well as
those of all other farm products. The
farmer is certainly entitled to the full I
benefit of his labor. but it is useless I
TO pay him a premium
One John Perkins, a Chicago gro.
GER breaks into the game and de-
clares.
Tine grocer is not to blame for the (
cost of goods. Ninety-five per cent
Of the grocers fail. The high cost of
living can be blamed to the trusts in
not giving the people more for their /
money. They sell goods in packages,
not by weight, reducing the package
when they want to- ANY grocer will I
snow you by the goods on his shelves (
nat the trusts do not give the people
ne worth of their money-or the gro
'er a proper profit for selling them.
Fhey are trust goods every time.
Ihe average woman doesn't know
Vnat weight she is getting. She I
Doesn't know that she is making her (
God cost more when she buys tea and
once from one man, butter and eggs
rom another, vegetables from the
ireek, etc, etc. If she would buy all I
Ter goods OF one man by weight she +
,ould save 30 per cent. Let her de. /
nand a pound of crackers. oatmeal. 4
'oap and hundreds of other short
weight goods. She would get them
n Tune, but the short-package man |
would make hard fight. The gro
,eryman that gives sixteen ounces
md charges little more is called
l1gh-priced man, but it costs the con-
jumer less"
And finally comes Horace Boies for
ner Democratic governor of Iowa. I
Who declares:
In Pennsylvania a delegate meet /
ng OF worlsingmen passed the reso-
utlon that inaugurated the strike
mere, in other places the same clagses
ire behind the movement.
What have these people already
accomplished? First, an increase OF
heir wages of nearly or quite 100
,er cent, for which everyone is glad.
second, the reduction of their hours
u labor from ten to eight hours day.
Or which no one ought to be glad ex-
;ept as the rule applies to extra haz- !
lrdous and unsanitary labor because
I IS an irTeyocable truth that eight (
tours of labor q day adopted as a uni. I
'ersal rule by all who are compelled
o labor would depopulate the world
With starvation i'm less than daoodo +