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both these bodies to urge your committee in their interest to report 

 favorably the said bill to the Senate of the United States for its con- 

 sideration, without amendment in any respect whatever. 



The Granges of the United States, aside from any financial consider- 

 ations in their own interest, believe this bill should be enacted into a 

 law, because they believe : 



First. That oleomargarine is relatively, if not entirely, an unhealthy 

 product; and 



Second. That it is a fact so notorious as to need little argument that, 

 while producers of oleomargarine in the first instance sell it for such, 

 hardly a pound of it reaches the consumer under its true name and in 

 its true guise. It is almost invariably sold as and for butter, and in 

 the hotels, restaurants, and boarding houses where it is used it is always 

 served as butter. 



If this condition of things is allowed to continue the consuming public 

 will be forced to use the commodity, whether they desire to do so or 

 not. Plainly, this state of things ought not to be. In the isterests ot 

 mutual integrity in commerce and justice between man and man these 

 goods ought to be placed upon the market in such guise as that the 

 consumer may be notified in their appearance of their true nature. 



Respectfully submitted. 



E. B. NORRIS, 

 Master of the State Grange of the State of New York. 



Mr. ADAMS. I ask permission to file the statement of Governor Hoard 

 at this time. 



Senator DOLLIVER. That may be done. 



The statement above referred to is as follows : 



STATEMENT OF W. D. HOARD. 



This law is demanded in the interest of a broad public policy, for 

 the protection of legitimate industry against illegitimate counterfeiting 

 and fraud. Compare the policy pursued by the United States with that 

 of Canada. The Dominion government guards the purity and honesty 

 of her dairy products to the extent of absolute prohibition of any adul- 

 teration or counterfeiting of the same. As a result her export of 

 cheese to England alone has grown in twenty years from $3,000,000 to 

 $20,000,000, while ours has declined nearly the same amount, because 

 we did not place the strong hand of the law on the adulterated product, 

 tilled cheese, until w r e had lost the confidence of the foreign consumer. 



Denmark sells $30,000,000 of butter abroad annually. Do you think 

 that Government would allow her commerce in butter to be endangered 

 by the shipment to foreign consumers of a counterfeit butter? Not so. 

 The Danish Government rigorously prohibits the exportation of oleo- 

 margarine. Here are two conspicuous examples of two nations who 

 have guarded well the reputation of their dairy products and exports, 

 and well have they thrived by it. 



This law is needed in the interest of the promotion of honesty and 

 fair dealing in our own home markets. This is a policy of taxing 

 heavily a traffic which flourishes by deception. Two benefits will 

 accrue to American society by the passage of this law. Cheating, both 

 of the producer and consumer ot butter, will be lessened, and the burden 

 of taxation correspondingly shifted from the shoulders of honest and 

 legitimate industry. It is time the Federal Government instituted a 

 vigorous policy in this direction. It has no right to stand before the 



