514 OLEOMARGARINE. 



existence in this Eastern section of the country, either because of the 

 lack of enterprise or because the conditions here were not so favorable. 

 At any rate, we all know that that industry left New England and went 

 West on account of the energies of the Western people. 



We also know that the manufacture of Corliss engines has practically 

 gone from New England to the West, simply because of the energy, 

 talent, and capability of the people of the West to make better and 

 cheaper engines than can be manufactured in New Edgland. 



In the development of this business of food stuifs for the human race, 

 it seems to me that what ought to be considered is only whether the proc- 

 esses are injurious to anybody; that whatever you do in respect of one 

 industry in the matter of producing food stuff's, as respects their proc- 

 esses, ought to be equally applicable to the other branches of that same 

 industry. 



Whether these food stuffs are wholesome or not, the distinguished 

 Secretary of Agriculture yesterday expressed an adverse opinion. Yet 

 in the testimony before the House committee we find that on examina- 

 tion of his chemist, we have a very clear-cut expression of opinion from 

 him, on page 228: 



Representative BAILEY. Dr. Wiley, let ine ask you this question : Do you consider 

 oleomargarine a wholesome article of food? 

 Dr. WILEY. I do. 



Also on page 196 there is similar testimony : 



Dr. WILEY. Two years ago I was addressing farmers' institutes in southern 

 Indiana 



That relates to a subject you have already had presented to you, of 

 various kinds of butters packed together in barrels to be shipped for 

 renovation. 



On page 93 there is a statement relating to the finding of a subcom- 

 mittee appointed by the United States Senate Committee on Manufac- 

 tures, of which Hon. W. E. Mason was chairman, " that the product 

 known as oleomargarine is healthful and nutritious, and no further 

 legislation is necessary." 



With reference to the processes of manufacture, if it is right to under- 

 take to eliminate certain points of the processes of the manufacture of 

 oleomargarine, because they are immoral or because they are injurious, 

 it is equally proper that they should be eliminated from the processes 

 of the manufacture of butter. 



You have had the most ample testimony as to butters of all degrees 

 of purity. Butters of various kinds were taken, and by chemical means 

 more or less purified, and by the addition of coloring matter made to 

 resemble spring butter by means of growths of bacteria known as 

 Pond's culture, for the purpose of giving the flavor of spring butter. 

 In the production of an article of food in the shape of oleomargarine, 

 if it is improper to use coloring matter simply because it gives some sem- 

 blance to the product of spring butter, is it not equally immoral and 

 equally unfair in trade to use bacteria? If you forbid the renovation 

 of butter so as to give it the flavor of spring butter, if you undertake 

 to forbid the manufacture of butter from the product of cows fed on 

 swill, is it not equally improper to undertake to forbid the uniform col- 

 oring of this food product, in whatever way, or whence it comes? If, 

 by means of coloring matter, butter is made of other foods than are in 

 yellow butter, and butter is produced that is similar to spring butter, 

 made from the product of cows fed on spring grass, by the addition of 

 the product from the cotton-seed mills or other food stuffs, if there is 



