OLEOMARGARINE. 341 



Mr. JELKE. If the Senator will allow me, I will state that cotton- seed 

 oil has a sort of greenish tinge. You will notice that in those colors 

 there is a great variety of tint, and none of the 14 yellows that are there 

 look like butter colors. They have a sort of greenish tint. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. They do not all of them look like yellows, 

 for that matter. I may be a little blind on color. 



Mr. PERSON. Well, I maybe blind myself, sir. 



Mr. JELKE. The mixture with lard andoleo oil (which has a pale straw 

 color) makes a combination of color that is not pleasing to the sight. 

 It is not a clear white, like butter. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. Now, then, I understand from what has been 

 said by the present speaker that the manufacturers, without adding any 

 artificial coloring matter, but by selecting the materials properly, can 

 produce oleomargarine without that objectionable color. 



Mr. JELKE. I have been told that they could. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. Who is your manufacturer? 



Mr. PERSON. Well, I do not know that I should answer that question 

 here, Senator. You are opening up a field that I am not prepared to 

 go into. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. What I want to know is how the product 

 finds its way into the open market in the 32 States where it has been 

 prohibited by law. 



Mr. PERSON. I think that question has been met by the answer given 

 you some time ago that if the laws are not in consonance with public 

 thought and feeling, and are not indorsed by the public, they will not 

 be sustained. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. But you, as a merchant, do not stop to 

 inquire whether the laws of New Jersey are in consonance with public 

 thought and feeling before you proceed to violate them, do you ? 



Mr. KNIGHT. Mr. Chairman, you will have him incriminating himself 

 presently. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. I am simply interested to know about this 

 matter. 



Mr. PERSON. Your remarks are rather leading, Senator. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. I do not want to make my remarks offensive 

 at all. I find here, however, these statutes preventing this thing, and 

 yet you are a good merchant, proceeding to do a good business in the 

 State of New Jersey. 



Mr. PERSON. We have the courage of our convictions. 



Mr. MILLER. Mr. Chairman, allow me to say that Mr. Person is a 

 wholesale dealer. He sells goods in the original packages only. Is 

 that not so? 



Mr. PERSON. That is right. 



Mr. MILLER. We have had a number of opinions from the Supreme 

 Court, giving us the privilege of selling original packages, unbroken 

 packages, manufactured in other States. 



Mr. PERSON. I have referred to the fact that we were handling 

 original packages there, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. MILLER. There is a decision in Minnesota and one in New Hani- 

 shire to that eifect. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. But the supreme court of New Jersey seems 

 to have decided that that law is constitutional, even as applying to 

 interstate commerce that is to say, to articles shipped in from the 

 other States and sold in the original packages. 



Mr. PERSON. That law has been upset by a more recent decision of 

 the United States Supreme Court, Senator. 



