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oleomargarine is permitted under restrictions requiring it to be labeled 

 and signs to be put up in the stores that oleomargarine is sold, the 

 manufacturers did not offer to sell this article in any other way or as 

 any other thing than as oleomargarine, and that on every counter where 

 it was for sale was a card asserting that o-leomargarine was sold, and 

 in the windows were the cards of Swift and other firms announcing the 

 sale of their particular product. In that State there was a sale in the 

 last year amounting to 8 pounds per capita of the whole population. 

 Do you bBlieve that the sale of butter was interfered with by this com- 

 petition ? I do not. There is no means of telling how much butter 

 was sold, but I believe those who desired creameiy and dairy butter 

 bought it and paid the excessive price for it, as they had the right to do. 



As was said by one of the gentlemen who discussed this question, 

 there is no real competition in the market between creamery butter 

 and colored oleomargarine when the customer knows what he is buy- 

 ing, and the opponents of this bill, therefore, will not object to any 

 reasonable regulation that Cojigress may see fit to throw around the 

 manufacture of oleomargarine for the purpose of having it known by 

 the consumer, when it is sold to him, just exactly what he is buying. 

 When you have done that you have exhausted your power as legislators 

 to interfere with the tastes, the peculiarities, and the wishes of the con- 

 sumers of the country, who constitute the great body of our people. 



Gentlemen of the committee, I desire to thank you for your atten- 

 tion, and before closing I wish to present to the committee a state- 

 ment addressed to the committee from Mr. Walden, president of the 

 Kansas City Live Stock Exchange, who was here the other day and 

 desired to address the committee, but was compelled to return. He 

 has reduced his views to writing. I have them here in this form, and 

 I will ask the committee to insert them in the record. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. The statement will appear in the record. 



Mr. SPRINGER. If any gentleman desires to ask questions, I will be 

 very glad to answer as I may be able. 



Mr. KNIGHT. You have not stated what the objections of the live- 

 stock growers are to the bill. 



Mr. SPRINGER. Those were stated 



Mr. KNIGHT. In the resolution? 



Mr. SPRINGER. In the memorial which will be printed. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. It will be printed. 



Mr. SPRINGER. I read a portion of it. I have asked the committee to 

 embody it at length, but I will briefly state the objections. They object 

 to it because it deprives them of a market for one of their products. 

 In other words, the product of beef known as caul fat, which amounts 

 in the average beef to about 58 pounds per steer, is now or may be 

 manufactured into oleo oil, and if the whole product were so manu- 

 factured there would be a large amount in fact, nearly all of it used 

 for that purpose, thus increasing the value of the caul fat in the steer 

 to the amount of the difference between oleo oil and tallow. 



Mr. HOARD. Does that include kidney fat ? 



Mr. SPRINGER. It includes all that is known as caul fat. I am not 

 an expert as to the various fats. 



Mr. KNIGHT. Your objection, then, is not so much to what it will do 

 to the live-stock industry as to what it will deprive the live-stock indus- 

 try of some time in the future? 



