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complete so that they could prosecute, and they brought the case up. 

 This letter carrier was working in the post-office. He came over to 

 court and sat around three or four hours. Then the case was put off 

 for several days more. They sent for the letter carrier again and took 

 him away from the post-office for three or four hours more. That went 

 on four or five times until the letter carrier said, " I can't devote any 

 more time to it." There are not many consumers who can go into 

 court half a dozen times at any time they may be called on. I know, 

 from the fact that we have to pay a chemist $25 a time for ten appear- 

 ances, that it is expensive business to prosecute those people, and it is 

 absolutely impossible to get a consumer to come as a witness five or six 

 times to prosecute one of these cases unless you pay him, and the 

 minute you pay him that thing is brought out, and you know how it 

 would stand in court. 



I realize that my time is limited and that I will have little oppor- 

 tunity to present very much. 1 am sorry I have not more time, because 

 I have devoted a great deal of attention to this matter. 



I want now to call attention to another letter of Mr. Moxley, adver- 

 tising his oleomargarine, dated October 22, 1898, in which he says: 



Your profit will be double the amount made from the butter you are now handling, 

 and your butter trade will be more satisfied if you will sell them such butterine as 

 you can buy from me. 



That is one of the inducements offered, double the profits on butter 

 that is sold. 



Now I want to read a letter from the food commissioner of the State 

 of Illinois : 



STATE FOOD COMMISSION, STATE OF ILLINOIS, 



Chicago, December 17, 1900. 

 Mr. CHARLES Y. KNIGHT, 



Secretary National Dairy Union, Chicago, III. 



DEAR SIR: In reply to your inquiry, I beg to say that it is my impression that 

 about 75 per cent of all the oleomargarine retailed in Chicago is sold as butter. The 

 stamp required by the United States revenue office is generally so indistinct and 

 wrapped up so that no one can see it unless they hunt for it, and consequently is 

 altogether ineffective as far as it warns the customer. No one who has not tried it 

 has any conception of all the difficulties in enforcing the honest sale of oleomar- 

 garine. While I believe the oleomargarine manufacturers sell their product hon- 

 estly, it is my impression that they are backing the retailers' defense. At least, the 

 lawyer defending these retailers in the justice's court incidentelly made the remark 

 in my presence to the effect that he could stay all day, as the people behind him 

 had plenty of money. 



And I know absolutely that the man who is defending those people for selling 

 oleomargarine for butter is paid in Moxley's interest. Moxley's own man told me so. 



In order to illustrate this, I inclose copy of a part of my report to the commis- 

 sioners referring to case No. 27. Two of our inspectors had called at that store, and 

 one of them asked distinctly for a pound of butter, and he was handed a pound of 

 oleomargarine, wrapped up in the manner peculiar to that retailer; and these two 

 inspectors, as well as the State analyst, who witnessed the opening of the package, 

 swore that the stencil was not visible until the package had been unwrapped and 

 examined. 



Yours, truly, J. H. MONRAD, 



Assistant Food Commissioner. 



Now I want to pay my respects to two other matters, and particularly 

 to the gentleman who has come before you and held himself out to rep- 

 resent the laboring men of this country. I hold here a copy of a price 

 list or a letter sent out by the Capital City Dairy Company , of Columbus, 

 Ohio, a concern whose charter last August was revoked by the supreme 

 court of the -State of Illinois for repeated defiant violations of the law. 

 I have the decisions in those cases here, but I will not stop for that. 



Mr. JELKE. Will you pardon one question? 



