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and thrown Mr. Moxley out and taken charge of the property, confiscated 

 and sold it, taken $28,000 and costs out of the receipts and turned the rest 

 over to Mr. Moxley, and his factory would have been gone. It was abso- 

 lutely necessary for him to pay into the Government treasury $28,000. 



The Cudahy Company, at Kansas City, were assessed $17,000 on 170,000 

 pounds; Kingman & Co., at Indianapolis, $14,000 on 140,000 pounds; the 

 Oakdale Manufacturing Co., the Vermont Manufacturing Co. and the 

 Globe Manufacturing Co., of Providence, were assessed $212,000 on 2,120,- 

 000 pounds, and various other establishments throughout the country which 

 endeavored to violate the law through coloring their oleomargarine by the 

 use of palm oil were assessed amounts which brought the entire sum which 

 the Government collected from these people in fines up to almost a half 

 million dollars. In the case of the Oakdale Manufactui:ing Co., the com- 

 pany was asseessed so much that its entire plant and property would not pay 

 the bill; the Government took charge of the plant, the company went into the 

 hands of a receiver, and the property was disposed of in order to meet the 

 demands of the Government. There is no getting around Uncle Sam when 

 he goes out collecting bills. 



This has made oleomargarine makers a little timid about violating the 

 law. They found they were up against a little different proposition than 

 when they were fooling with the states, that the government absolutely 

 knows no favor when it comes to collecting taxes; that it will collect taxes 

 wherever they are due. 



At our last meeting at Waterloo I showed you that in the year 1902, the 

 last year under the old law, which permitted the coloring of oleomargarine 

 in semblance of butter under a tax of two cents per pound, there was made 

 in this country 126,315,427 pounds of oleomargarine, something over six 

 thousand cars. The next year, the first year under the new law, a good 

 deal of oleomargarine was made with this palm oil and other schemes, at 

 which time the manufacturers had their organization and their agents out, 

 they made 71,211,244 pounds, and that was a shrinkage of about forty percent 

 from the year 1902. During the year 1904, when the Government had g-ot 

 the matter of regulation down, had fined those people for putting palm oil 

 in their oleomargarine, had got the work of collection of taxes systematized, 

 and oleomargarine makers had found they couldnot violate or evade the law, 

 when they had dismissed the extra help they held during 1903 in anticipation 

 of violating the law, and in that way demoralized their organization, the 

 output went down to 48,071 ,480 pounds, that is 48,000,000 for last year 

 compared with 126,000,000 under the old law before the new law went into 

 effect. 



In 1900, that was two years before the new law went into effect, the 



make of oleomargarine was one hundred and seven million pounds, in 1901 



t was one hundred and four million, and then, as I have shown you, under 



^he last year of the old law it went up to one hundred and twenty-six million^ 



then down to seventy-one million and then down to forty-eight million. 



Now the matters of the National Dairy Union, their meetings and their 

 work are entirely different from those of almost any other organization that 

 the dairymen have been accustomed to be connected with. The National 

 Dairy Union meetings are but the work of a day; there is practically no 

 work to be done at the meetings; about all the work that we ever expect to 



