OLEOMARGARINE. 377 



Mr. DILLON. That is all I want. You. admit that it is possible for 

 me, as a boarding house keeper or as a restaurant keeper, to palm off 

 oleomargarine on you as butter. Now, that is the whole scheme of 

 your job all the way through, and it has been for the seventeen years 

 that I have been watching you. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. Let me make a suggestion. Have you not a law 

 in the State of New York, as in the State of Massachusetts, that where 

 oleomargarine is used in restaurants and boarding houses there shall 

 be a notification of the fact to the guests'? Have you not such a law 

 as that in New York! 



Mr. KRACKE. No, sir; we have not. The law of the State of New 

 York forbids the manufacture or sale of oleomargarine to any person, 

 whether it be in a stall or restaurant or boarding house. You can not 

 even feed it to your servant in a private family. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. Now, let us hear this gentleman [Mr. 

 AdamsJ speak. 



Mr. ADAMS. Mr. Chairman, I would like to say a word if I can have 

 permission. The gentlemen on the other side of this question have 

 appeared before this committee and made very extended arguments, 

 and have been treated with the utmost courtesy. The questions which 

 we have asked have been rare in number. Mr. Schell himself appeared 

 before this committee and talked for nearly a day and a half. I asked 

 him one or two questions with the utmost politeness. He did not care 

 to answer them. 



Now, a gentleman appears here with limited time, and while the 

 representatives of the dairy interests are perfectly willing to be sub- 

 mitted to any searching cross-examination which is reasonable, we 

 do feel that when one of them appears here to conduct a discussion 

 upon our side of the question the six or seven or eight attorneys and 

 representatives of the oleomargarine interests should not take up all 

 his time in extended questions and in extended arguments. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. It is always within the power of the wit- 

 ness to decline to be interrupted. 



Mr. SCHELL. I was just going to say that. We apologize if we are 

 doing what we ought not to do. 



Mr. DILLON. I have just one or two other points to make, and that 

 is all I am going to say on this subject. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. You can decline to be interrupted, if you 

 wish. 



Mr. DILLON. I will exercise that right now for the remainder of 

 what I have to say. 



Up in the country where I was born and brought up, and where my 

 farm interests are yet, I frequently meet farmers. It is a section of 

 country to which people from New York and Philadelphia go in con- 

 siderable numbers to spend the summer, and they meet a good many 

 of these dealers from New York and adjacent cities. Last summer when 

 I was up there one of my old neighbors was telling me of a market 

 which he had formerly had for his dairy butter in Paterson, N. J. He 

 lost the trade, and he went down there to see what the trouble was, 

 why he could not get any more orders from those people to whom he 

 had been shipping. He said that they told him confidentially that all 

 or many of his competitors around there had been selling oleomargarine ; 

 that they were making a profit of 8 or 10 cents a pound on it; that it 

 they handled dairy butter it was impossible for them to compete with 

 these competitors; and consequently they had thrown out dairy butter 

 and gone to handling oleomargarine entirely. 



