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creamery company." Oh, there are lots of "creamery companies" 

 not handling a pound of pure butter in Philadelphia. There are not 

 so many of them as there used to be, because some of them have been 

 put in jail and fined, and we have driven some of them out. But these 

 wholesalers come and induce these poor fellows to go into the business, 

 because they think that the law will not be enforced and they will be 

 protected against prosecutions. 



Mr. JELKE. Will you permit a question ? 



Mr. KAUFFMAN. Certainly a dozen of them. 



Mr. JELKE. What stamp is this that the manufacturers use? 



Mr. KAUFFMAN. The manufacturers would come and give them a 

 revenue stamp, and show them how to use it, and tell them how they 

 might use it. 



Mr. JELKE. What was on the stamp, please? 



Mr. KAUFFMAN. "Oleomargarine"; and then they go to work, as 

 was the case with one fellow we convicted before the United States 

 court only last term, and tell them how to violate the law. 



Mr. JELKE. Was the stamp made in accordance with the law the 

 proper size, and so forth ? 



Mr. KAUFFMAN. Oh, yes, sometimes sometimes. 



Mr. SPRINGER. It is not the tax stamp ? 



Mr. KAUFFMAN. Oh, no not what is called the tax stamp. It is 

 the stamp that the present United States law requires to be put right 

 on the wrapper. Now, to show you one of the schemes they have got 

 to deceive people, to show you just how deceptive they are, there was 

 one dealer in Philadelphia who thought he was very sharp. He went 

 to work, and he put the stamp right across that corner [indicating]. 

 Then he folded it down in that way [indicating]. 



Mr. GROUT. Oh, he folded it very many more times than that he 

 folded it in three or four times. 



Mr. KAUFFMAN. Yes; he did. Our people would go in and ask for 

 butter, and they would get ' ' butter; " and when they would go out and 

 look it over they could not find anything about oleomargarine upon it 

 until they turned down the corner and looked underneath there, and then 

 they found the word "oleomargarine" hidden away there. And we 

 convicted that fellow because, although he supposed his little scheme 

 complied with the law, the courts differed with him. 



Mr. SCHELL. Would that customer go back to that store, do you 

 think? 



Mr. KAUFFMAN. It does not make any difference whether he would 

 do that or not; he was deceived, and he was defrauded willfully 

 deceived and defrauded because the very fact that the dealer had the 

 acuteness to do that showed that he intended to do it. 



Now let me show you another trick. Oleomargarine is wrapped in 

 parchment paper or thin paper. There is another dealer in the city of 

 Philadelphia (he is doing it now, and we are going to convict him 

 before the United States court) who goes to work and stamps on this 

 thin paper "Oleomargarine." He puts that stamp right next to the 

 oleomargarine, in that way [indicating]. The moisture in the oleo- 

 margarine absorbs the stamp, and by the time the purchaser has it in 

 his possession for a few minutes you can not see it unless you hold it 

 up to the light, and then you can see very faintly "Oleomargarine." 

 It is so faint as not to be discernible. 



Why, it is deception on the face of it. And that is only one of a 



