Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1912-06-05

omargarine. The temptation and
fraud is wholly because of the wide
spread difference in the cost of pro-
ducing oleomargarine and butter,
You have evidence of this in the
statement of the Internal Revenue
Department that, in it's opinion, SO
per cent. of the oleomargarine col
ored is sold for and as butter at
a price nearly as great as butter.
G. l.. Flanders, President Nation
al Dairy Union; J. A. Walker,
I President American Creamery
Butter Manufacturers Associa-
ton; G.. l.. Mckay, Secretary
American Creamery Butter Manu-
facturers' Association; N. P. Hull,
President American Dairy Farm
ers' Association; H. E. Van Nor
man, President National Dairy
Show Association; Geo. M. Whit
aker, President National Farmers
Congress-; F. N. Godfrey, Chair
man National Grange Executive
Committee; c. o. Raine, Secretary
National Grange Executive Com
mittee; S. H. Messick, Oliver Will
son, T. G. Atkeson, N. P. Hull.
T. G. Atkeson, N. P. Hull, Legis-
Legislative Committee, National
Grange.
In his letter to the Monitor Mr..
Plumley says: Efforts are being
satisfactory to all the interests. The
heavy face is mine. That he is in favor
OF this is shown by the fact that he
says he secured the pOstponement
that this might be done. But do the
dairy interests want the Grout law
which is not satisfactory to the oleo
people repealed and in it's place a
law that is satisfactory "to all" in
Guiding the meat trust, oleo manu-
facturers and dealers? Cannot the
oleo interests be trusted to take care
of themselves? They ought to be
compelled to get along without the
friendly or fatherly assistance of any
dairy congressman.
Again, so many of the oleo peo-
pie being criminals by breaking the
GrOut law-as is claimed by the
Revenue offIcials-it does not seem
that their interests and influence
should be as potent as those of two
millions of dairy farmers. 1t would
be too much like inviting in burglars
and train robbers to assist in formu.
lating laws regulating those indus.
tries and such as would be salts.
factory both to the robbers and rob.
bed.
The dairy interests are on the de
fensive. The forty oleo m%anufactur
ers, actuated by avarice and greed
are aggressive and with eyes tina
never sleep are striving to cripple
the dairy interests by repeating tn,
Grout law and having another fran
ed so complicated that oleo may b,
palmed off in some way upon actua
consumers as butter.
The repeal of the Grout law |
their main object and then by intro
ducing a color scheme or some othe
Joker" in the new law to rende
IL ineffective as a protector of tn
dairy interests.
10 combat the money, ~in1uenc
and Vaccinations of the oleo inter
ests all the opposing and defensiv
interests should be reunited and I
seems unfortunate that Mr.. Plumle,
does not see his way clear to act i
such harmony with those who ar
known to be true to the dairy inter
ests that there can be no question O
dlstrust as to where he stands: 70
1t is a matter of quite common ex
perience hat when one is Obliged t,
examine the attitude of another will
a microscope to ascertain whether h,
Is Tor or against you, you can set hin
down as against YOU. Without tn,
ala OF the forces hat have so sue
cessfully combatted the cleo inter
ests SO many years any congressma
Will be powerless to protect tn
dairy interests.
1t is we'll known that the oleo peo
pie do not work in the open but tina
It is through secret methods and in
fuences that they hope to win. I
they devised the "tintometer'' colo
scheme it would be difficult to trac
its source to them.
1t is patent hat the alleged de
fects in the Grout law are raised al
wholly for the purpose of be
Ing used as entering wedges to brea,
1t down by repeating it with tn
hope that more favorable Legislation
LAY be secured for the manipulate
OF oleo to the detriment of. the butte
industry.
THE bone of contention is TIL
color question:" says the Nationa
Dairy Union and other dairy asso
Citations listed in the above protest.
So far as l know they do not favo
thn nn1nr cnhoDoa NJ