428 OLEOMARGARINE. 



Senator DOLLIVBR. We had a merchant here from New Jersey, where 

 the law forbids the sale of colored oleomargarine, who stated that he 

 obtained his oleomargarine under special order from the manufacturer 

 with the butter color the yellow color produced, not by artificial 

 coloring, but by a careful and judicious collection of the ingredients 

 entering into the manufacture of the article. 



Secretary WILSON. I am not familiar with any process of that kind. 

 That may be. We can not limit the capacity of a chemist, but I do not 

 want the chemist to produce an article that will cost me 10 cents more a 

 pound than it is worth, without coloring it. 



The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Secretary, oleomargarine is manufactured and 

 sold abroad, is it not? 



Secretary WILSON. Oh, yes; my paper shows that. 



The CHAIRMAN. Yes; I noticed it. Is it colored there? 



Secretary WILSON. Oh, no ; we are the only people on earth who do 

 not take care of what our people consume and what they eat, and the 

 purity of our food. 



The CHAIRMAN. It has a sale there for what it is? 



Secretary WILSON. Yes; it is a legitimate business, if they do not 

 deceive somebody entirely so. 



Mr. MILLER. Mr. Chairman, we are exporters of butterine and we 

 color every pound we send out. In some of the West Indies we color 

 it red. 



Secretary WILSON. Have they laws down in the West Indies on 

 that subject? 



Mr. MILLER. Some of the countries have laws, yes, sir. 



Secretary WILSON. I presume you do not sell oleomargarine to Great 

 Britain and color it, do you ? 



Mr. MILLER. We have no export trade to Great Britain, but that is 

 because they manufacture their own product. 



Secretary WILSON. Do you ship oleomargarine to foreign countries? 



Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir. 



Secretary WILSON. Where do you send it? 



Mr. MILLER. We send it to a number of countries. We do not send 

 it to Great Britain and some other countries. The little country of 

 Holland has 19 factories as against 27 in the United States, and it is 

 not bigger than the State of Missouri. 



Mr. CHAIRMAN. And yet they sell it as white, do they? 



Mr. MILLER. No, sir ; they sell it colored. 



Secretary WILSON. You are only telling what Armour & Co. do; but 

 the United States does ship butter to foreign countries. 



Mr. MILLER. We ship oleomargarine; we do not ship butter. 



Secretary WILSON. You do not ship it to any foreign country where 

 they have got laws and sell it for butter. 



Mr. MILLER. We do not sell it for butter at all. We sell it for oleo- 

 margarine in this country and in other countries. 



Secretary WILSON. But the people down in these countries where 

 you send it do not happen to have any laws, and if they did have laws 

 we know the character of people they are down there. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. Do I understand the Secretary to say that in Hol- 

 land they do not color the oleomargarine? 



Secretary WILSON. You understood him to say that. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. I ask if the Secretary says that. 



Secretary WILSON. No; you did not understand me to say that. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. How did I understand you? 



