'Cbe Conservative.
The Orange Judd
COMPLEXION. Fanner , of Juno 8 ,
contains comment
on the Grout bill which proposes a
heavy tax upon "oleo colored in imita
tion of butter" and commends the afore
said paternal legislation for reintroduction
tion at the next session of congress.
The question of what "color" really
imitates the complexion of normal but
ter is quite puzzling. Butter depends
for color upon the food of the cows. It
is white in winter and golden in sum-
it mer. If "oleo" is white it is imitation
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' of naturally colored , winter-made
butter. If "oleo" is yellow it is like
the butter made in June. Under the
Grout law , as advocated by the "Orange
Judd Farmer , " can oleo of any color be
sold at all without violating the statute ?
The dairy journals , and even ordinary
agricultural periodicals , constantly
advertise various
Artificial compounds and
Complexions concoctions for
giving an artificial
complexion to butter. One of these
coloring substances is described as
"fadeless" and entirely capable and
efficient in giving the genuine "June
tint" to butter.
By what sort of discriminating con
sciences are artificial coloring and com
plexion for butter made perfectly proper
and right , and artificial coloring for
"oleo" altogether improper and wrong ?
Why is it right for rancid butter , bought
up by creameries , all over the west , to
be chemically treated , colored and put
upon the market as "the best Jersey , "
when it is wrong to place clean , whole
some and pure oleomargarine for sale
alongside of it , if the same has been
colored even by feeding carrots ? Why
has one product of the bovine a right to
artificial complexion and another no
right to such make-up ? Why should
the selfishness of dairymen be enacted
into law any more than the selfishness
of oleomargarine makers ? Do the
American people know enough to pur
chase the oleaginous substance they use
for spreading on their bread ? Can the
people be injured by a wholesome ,
cheaper and better substance than much
of the chemically-treated butter , even if
left free to buy it , in preference to
butter , though it may have , like most
butter , an artificial complexion ?
Is not the sole object of the Grout bill
to increase the price of butter by killing
off the use of a competitor of butter
called oleomargarine ?
The incorporated
OWN AND capital , which
CONTROL. built and owns in
dustrial plantshas ,
and ought to have , the right within
the limits of the public good to control
those plants and their operation. Em
ployees who are promptly paid an
agreed sum for their labor have no right
to demand changes in hours of labor
and wages to which they have been an
agreeing party , except upon reasonable
notice , for good causes and without
threats of a strike.
The right to own a plant carries with
it the right to control a plant. And the
two rights cannot bo divorced by the
mere edict of any association , union or
other labor combination.
If it is right for labor to demand ten
h6urs pay for nine hours work it is
equally right for .capital to demand pay ]
for ten pounds of bacon , sugar or other
staple product , when it weighs out only
nine pounds. It is as reasonable to
make fifty minutes an hour , by statute ,
as it is to decree , by legislation , that
seven hours is a day.
Equal rights to labor and capital will
make their best footing and stand most
firmly after walking delegates and
designing agitators havo'ceased to force
regulatory legislation upon the country.
It is far better to close a manufacturing
plant , and let it rot in disuse , than to
operate under the dictation of non-
owners and in abject duress.
The Pau-Ameri-
A COOK. can exposition at
Buffalo , New York ,
offers a reward of one thousand dollars
for the best all-around feminine cook ,
twenty-one years old , whose father was
worth one hundred thousand dollars
when she was ten years old and has
remained wealthy up-to-date. A girl
cook , competent to get up a plain meal ,
a breakfast , for instance , of muffins ,
corn-beef hash , soft-boiled eggs and
baked potatoes , who was born and
reared in affluence , is an American
curio. She is as rare as a white black
bird. All girls must pound a piano.
But few prepare food for eating. The
diet of music is not fattening. Let us
have fewer tunes from and more good
meals by American girls.
The alleged re-
BALANCE OF publican party is
POWER. incapable of elect
ing any man to
the presidency and so is the alleged
democratic party. The two candidates
for the presidency in 1900 have each so
declared. This being an acknowledg
ment of the independent vote , which
carries the balance of power in the
United States , why will partisan jour
nals continue to decry "the new party ? "
The empire hav-
EMPEROR. ing been decreed
by the supreme
court , and the Fourth of July having
been abolished by the gold standard ,
what shall be commoner than the dukes ,
counts , earls and lords whom the
American people may soon salute in
high places ? When shall the dukedom
of Lincoln and Lancaster be instituted ?
Who shall be the duke ?
SINGLE TAX.
EDITOR CONSERVATIVE :
DEAR SIR : It was with much inter
est that I read the article in your last
issue , writted by Johan Waage and ,
as this gentleman stated a good many
things and will answer all questions , I
would be pleased to have him answer
the following that is , if ho can : Will
not the landlord shift the tax upon the
tenant , as ho does all other taxes today ?
What benefit would the laborer derive
from such a tax ? If you were to
levy all taxes on laud no one would own
it. Is there not plenty of idle land out
west ? And , if so , why don't the people
go out there ? If the single tax would
do everything he states , why don't the
people get it ? What would Mr. Waage
do for the poor widow who had saved a
few dollars and had purchased a piece
of land , and it was the only means of
her support ? Would he tax it out of
her possession ?
I shall watch with interest his reply
in your coming issue. Respectfully ,
G. J. FOYER.
Chicago , 111. , May 28 , 1901.
More Inquiry.
EDITOR CONSERVATIVE :
DEAR SIR : It would please some of
the readers of your valuable paper if
Mr. Johau Waage would explain how
he would put "single tax" in operation.
Would people own their lands as now ,
or would the government own them ?
If A. should rent a lot and build a
$1,000,000 building on it , and B. would
offer to pay a higher rent for the lot ,
how would A. and B. settle for the
building ? Respectfully yours ,
D. J. S.
Fremont , Neb. , May 28,1901.
MYSTERIOUS MISS DACRES.
Secretary of the Navy , Long is a great
admirer of a good detective yarn or
story of mystery. It is his relaxation ,
and ho apparently reads with critical
judgment as well. He recently wrote
to Mrs. Sohuyler Crowninshield in re
gard to her latest novel , "Mysterious
Miss Dacres , " which was printed in
Lippinoott's Magazine : "I read it with
a very lively interest. The charm is in
the dialogue , the extravagance of situa
tion , the constant unexpectedness of
situation. For this reason it reminded
me of Frank Stockton , and Stockton at
his best. In its' touches of New Eng
land character and scene and dialect
nothing could be more real. Of all
things it is not conventional , unless it is
in the final page or two in which the
mystery is unravelled. "
HE MUST ATONE.
Mr. William Jennings Bryan is not
an old man now. But he will be a very
old man if he lives long enough to atone
to the democratic party for the injury
he has done it. Beaumont , Texas , Age.
