The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-13
Use of Substitutes Made from Oils
Barrier to Sterilization of
Butter Market

Butter Market
The Haugen bill should be passed
by congress in order to stabilize
the present butter market, declared
Congressman August H. Andersen,
Representative from the third dis
trict in a radio address over WCCO
Monday evening Mr.. Andersen's ad-
dress in full follows:
II consider it real privilege to
have the opportunity of speaking to
a radio audience on a subject which
is of great and vital interest to the
people of the northwest. It is of
vital interest because it affects ev-
cry dairy farmer in the United
States, as we'll as the prosperity of
the people residing in our cities and
villages.
During the past ten years of ag-
ricultural depression dairying has
proved to be the one saving branch
of agriculture for the farmer. It has
been his cash crop every month. 1t
has received reasonable and fair
price for his dairy products.
The American dairy farm is now
being threatened by foreign inva-
sion of a class of substitute pro-
ducts which have been masquerade
ing on the markets of the county
for the past two or three years un-
der the name of "colored cooking
compounds" but which have been
Just as clearly made to initiate and
to be sold for and in the place OF
butter as if they were falsely and
fraudulently labeled butter" on
all four sides of the cartons in
which they are sold.
These compounds are made of
cheap cocoanut oil and peanut oil
which come to us from tropical and
foreign lands, and whenever a con.
sumner, on the farm or in the city
buys a pound of it, it makes q
pound less market for every pound
of butter we produce. The dairy
market is in bad shape just at tbs
time, and the use of substitutes has
replaced butter in many homes
both on the farm and city, and as
a consequence, we are now faced
with a large surplus of butter in
storage.
Dairy butter is the most nutri.
tious of foods, and if every family
in the agricultural states would use
one pound extra each month fol
| this year, it would go far towards
solving the present day problems OF
the dairy farmer.
In Washington we are concerned
about laws. At the present time
those of us who are interested ir
the dairy famer, are attempting tc
secure the enactment of a law
which will give protection to the
dairy industry from the substitutes
manufactured from cocoanut ano
peanut oil. The bill before Con
gress was introduced by Represen
tative Gilbert Haugen, of Iowa, ane
is known as H. r. No. 6-The Hau
! gen Olemaragine bill.
! The original oleomargarine law
passed in 1886 and revised into it,
present form in 10000 years age
has been the charter of protec
ton of the dairy industry from
fraudulent sale and substitution o!
imitation for butter, until within
the very recent past. The law says
. in substance that if product i.
made in imitation or semblance o.
butter, it must be named, labeled
and sold as Oleomargarine. Max
ers, wholesalers and dealers are
placed under bond or inspection. Il
it is not artificially colored, the
manufacturer must pay a tax Of
one fourth of one cent pound. As
to every product made up of fat:
which is held by the proper auth
critics to be Oleomargarine, every
provision of this law is enforced
and the tax collected.
Now, there are so many features
about this law which I could talk
about that I could take the next
hour or two, but as the time is linn
tied, I will only discuss the fea
ture of the law which relates tc
the present emergency, and fol
which the Haugen sill is intended
as a remedy.
The Internal Revenue Bureau has
ruled that the substitute products
manufactured from cocoanut oil
and other imported vegetable oils
if made in imitation or semblance
of butter, shall be classed as oleo-
margarine and be subject to the
tax and regulation
1.-The manufacturers of this substi
tute product disagreed with the
ruling; presented their case to the
court and a Rhode Island judge de-
cided that their product was not
oleomargarine. This decision en-
joined the state. BY virtue of equa
representation from each state, the
Senate has the bureau from collect
| ing the tax and enforcing it's regu.
lations. The purpose Of the Hau.
gen bill will be to bring this sub.
stitute product within the defini
ton of the oleomargarine law ano
compel the manufacturers to com.
ply with the regulations and pay q
tax of ten cents per pound for ar.