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OLEOMARGARINE. 



where the sale of oleomargarine made in semblance of butter is abso- 

 lutely prohibited, and, second, the States in which it was legal to sell 

 such oleomargarine: 



Yellow oleomargarine sold contrary to law in 1899. 



Oleomargarine sold in States where legal to color. 



Thus it will be seen that 62,825,582 of the total of 79,685,724 pounds 

 reported shipped into the various States were sold in violation of the 

 laws of the various States. There were but 16,860,142 pounds sold 

 legally, and a very large percentage of that was unquestionably sold 

 as butter. 



We feel, therefore, that in setting forth the above facts and condi- 

 tions we are basing our appeal upon evidence which is unimpeachable. 

 The record of the existence of these anticolor laws for years in the 

 various States without a single repeal or demand for repeal by the 

 actual consumer is evidence that the people are not anxious for oleo- 

 margarine colored in semblance of butter. The expansion of the traffic 

 the past two years has not been the result of the demand of the people 

 for oleomargarine, but is the result of the greed for profit which has 

 induced retailers by the thousands to risk prosecution, with a guar- 

 anty of protection, in order to secure the large profits in the sale of 

 oleomargarine for butter. 



Is it right, therefore, that the will of four-fifths of our people, as 

 reflected by their legislatures, should be defied by a few manufac- 

 turers of an outlawed article? When an expression of four-fifths of our 

 people favors this policy of discouraging the manufacture of colored 



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