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A KKPI.Y FROM A BUTTER
EDITOR CONSKRVATIVE :
Under "paternalism" you make some
misleading statements. You p y , "only
those who buy from the farmdr the pro
duct of the dairy and in large establish
ments , with expensive machinery ,
convert it into butter , " whom you de
fine as butter-makers , are demanding
national legislation restricting the manu
facture and sale of oleomargarine. The
facts are , that not more than one butter-
maker in one thousand owns such an
establishment. They are owned , con
trolled and supplied by the very per
sons you try to divest of any blame in
the matter the farmers. These farmers
hire the butter-makers , and whatever
legislation he is demanding , is through
their desire and by their advice.
The term butter-maker , in the par
lance of today , means only those who
make butter in a creamery , or in such
an establishment as you mention , and
not the owners thereof and his personal
interests are infinitesimal when com
pared to those of the hundreds of thou
sands of farmers who employ him.
You should place -the blame , if any ,
where it belongs and not on the com *
paratively few who have raised the
grade of American butter from where
it was only a few years ago , known as
grease and sold only in the local markets ,
to where it now is , the standard in the
markets of the world.
What memorial has expressed the de
sire , much less a demand , that a certain
variety of butter shall be the "legalized
bread-spreader throughout the United
States , " and that "oleomargarine be de
clared unconstitutional , " and how can
oleomargarine or other substance be de
clared unconstitutional ? Such demands
if made will not , and should not , re
ceive consideration by law-makers.
We do not sanction the fostering of
one manufactured product to the detri
ment of another , nor do we sanction the
manufacture of any substitute which is
to go upon our markets as the genuine
article.
The butter producer does not object
to the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine -
margarine providing it is known and
sold as oleomargarine. It is the decep
tion and fraud practiced that is causing
this agitation by the producers and con
sumers through the butter-maker.
It is conceded that of the eighty-two
million pounds of this counterfeit manu
factured in 1809 , ninety per cent was
consumed by those who paid butter
prices for it and supposed they were
getting butter. ( Authority , Hoard's
Dairyman. )
You say "it is made from the fat of
the bovine. " Why did you not enum
erate all of its ingredients ? Or did you
not know that the bovine fat is the
smallest portion of the formula , if it is
there at all ?
If it is made entirely of the fat what
effect would it have on the farmer sup
ply ing the beef market ? The average
yield of this fat is not more than three
per cent of each beef , or about one dollar
lar and twenty cents , which you fear
may be legislated against to the detriment
of the beef market and which is only
produced once in a life-time , whereas
the bovine milk producer yields that
much every week for from six to ten
years and at last supplies her share of
this "nutritions and infinitely superior"
article.
Would you strangle the weekly pro
ducer of the one dollar and twenty
cents' worth'of a pure product in order
to preserve the once in a life-time pro
ducer of the same value of fat , that the
poor may not be deprived of the blessed
privilege of buying a cheap substitute
at the same price they could get the
genuine article for ?
You want gold and silver to circulate
at their genuine commercial ratio. We
want butter and oleomargarine on the
same equitable footing , and nothing but
proper legislation will secure these de
sires.
The figures quoted prove that under
the present conditions the poor are the
ones who suffer most and will be most
benefited by the only important legisla
tion now asked for , viz : that oleomar
garine shall not be colored to imitate
genuine butter.
N. S. ANDREWS.
Dubuque , la. , Mar. 10 , 1900.
New York World :
SECRETS OF
LONGEVITY.The causes of
Natural Death and
How to Attain an Active and Useful
Old Age , " was the subject of a lecture
by Dr. Cyrus Edson before the Hund
red Year Club at 2,86 West Fifty-eighth
street last night.
"Farmers of lives " said
are long , Doc
tor Edson , "but men in the city who
observe the rules of health live longer
than the farmer. The reason is that
the city man exercises his mental pow
ers more than the farmer and the secret
of longevity is in mentality.
"The rules for a long life are : Plain
food ; plenty of good air ; not more than
eight hours of sleep ; periods of exercise
part of which should be of such a nature
as to produce a deep respiration and
perspiration ; don't worry or go to ex
tremes or excesses. "
Doctor Edson said the average life of
a brain worker was sixty-seven years.
"The cause of death , " said he , "is fail
ure of assimilation , the giving out of
one organ and failure of the nervous
system. "
Doctor Edsou told of Thomas Parr , an
Englishman , who lived to be 152 years
old and outlived nine princes. Parr was
supposed to have died because of a
change of food and air , moving from
the fresh country to London. He work
ed in a field until he was 180 years old
and married a widow at 120.
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