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Senator MONEY. I can not. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. In response to your question, Mr. Money, 1 

 should say that the ordinary person would not distinguish between a 

 nice specimen of oleomargarine and the ordinary butter. 



Senator MONEY. If they can not tell the difference, and they are both 

 healthful, what are the odds? 



Senator FOSTER. And a nice specimen of oleomargarine has more 

 butter in it. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. Yes, sir. 



Senator FOSTER. So that, the more butter you get in it, the better 

 the oleo. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. This matter has been before Congress several 

 times, and a committee of the Senate, the Committee on Manufactures, 

 I think it was, investigated this very question under the pure-food 

 law. Without going into their report to any extent, but as substan- 

 tiating what every committee, it seems to me, must find if they investi- 

 gate it carefully, what every man must find if he investigates it caref ully , 

 with the desire or intention of getting at the truth of the matter, I 

 will read what they find: 



"The committee finds from the evidence before it that the product 

 known commercially as oleomargarine is healthful and nutritious, and 

 that no additional legislation is necessary." 



I do not mean to say that this is res adjudicata for this committee, 

 but it is some evidence, at least, that a committee of this Senate, after 

 an investigation of this whole question, did find that it was a health- 

 ful and nutritious article; and it seems to me, gentlemen, that if one 

 question could be proven by such a preponderance of evidence as to 

 permit of no shadow of doubt in the mind of anyone that it has been 

 shown and established, it is that oleomargarine is healthful and nutri- 

 tious and that it is folly to attempt to raise any question on that score. 



I take it, gentlemen, that you will find that as proven and that the 

 only question that will disturb your minds at all will be whether there 

 is any legislation needed whether, under the guise of a revenue meas- 

 ure, the circumstances are such and the expedients are such as to war- 

 rant your extending the arm of this Government to assist the laws of 

 the States in preventing oleo being sold as butter. 1 have shown to 

 you that it can make but very little difference, if any, to the farmer 

 whether that is done or not; but it makes a vast difference to the cap- 

 ital employed and the men employed whether you in effect confiscate 

 my property and destroy an established industry. It makes a differ- 

 ence of a great many millions of dollars, and besides it is going so far 

 as to destroy an industry which came into existence legitimately and 

 fairly, and which desires to remain in the same manner. 



Now, gentlemen, 1 do not anticipate that such an act of injustice 

 will be done by the United States Senate. I do not anticipate that 

 this bill will ever become a law, but I have found many times to my 

 sorrow that what appeared very clear to me was not always so clear 

 to others; and so, gentlemen, there is one thing that I want to call 

 your attention to, if by any possiblity a bill of this character should 

 become a law, and that is the language of the proviso, on the seventh 

 line of the second page: 



' ' That nothing in this act shall be construed to permit any State to 

 forbid the manufacture or sale of oleomargarine in a separate and dis- 

 tinct form, and in such manner as will advise the consumer of its real 



