OLEOMARGARINE. 695 



strange that oleomargarine has not been thought of as a palatable and suitable arti- 

 cle of diet for those suffering from wasting diseases. 



It is free from all objections. As a matter of fact, it is a better and purer butter 

 than nine-tenths of. the dairy product that is marketed, and one that is far more 

 easily preserved. There are a large number who imagine oleomargarine is made 

 from any old scraps of grease regardless of age or cleanliness. The reverse is the 

 fact. Good oleo can only be had by employing the very best and freshest of fat. 

 This artificial butter is as purely wholesome (and perhaps even better as food) as the 

 best dairy or creamery product. 



Jollies and Winkler, the official chemists of the Austrian Govern- 

 ment, after thorough investigation of butterine, reported: 



The only germs found in "oleo" are those common to air and water. Although 

 carefully searched for, tubercular bacilli and other obnoxious bacilli were conspicu- 

 ous by their absence. 



Mr. ALDREDGKE. Now, when these inferior butter makers strike the 

 chemist they always dodge. 1 have seen a mule that was beaten over 

 the head by a negro until every time a man raised his hand 50 yards 

 away from him he would commence to dodge him. And you can't get 

 one of them to talk about a chemist. Whenever he gets in the neigh- 

 borhood of a chemist he says, " Well, he don't know." Why, that is 

 what they are here for. The chemist is the highest product of science; 

 and he is here to tell us what is in every article about which we want 

 to ask him. And yet they say, ' He don't know." They dodge him 

 every time. 



Now, gentlemen, I will elevate this butter crowd. I will agree that 

 their product is perfectly pure. That is agreeing to a great deal. I 

 was raised on a farm, and my business when I was a boy was to mind 

 the calf off and hold him off while the cow was being milked. It is done 

 in a little pen; and the cows drop a great deal of manure. That is all 

 ground up. You can not milk them in a big pen. That manure is all 

 ground up and in the air, and they are walking to and fro; and I can 

 show you certificates here from a dairyman in Iowa where he found that 

 very stuff in his milk, and complained about it. But we will grant that 

 they are making a pure product. Then what? Here is a contest 

 between two perfectly pure, wholesome articles of food. And one party 

 says, " Stop the manufacture of the other ! " 



Now, why should the Government be called upon to interfere in such 

 a contest as that? Why should the Government be called upon to take 

 one man's business in its hand, and lift it up and put its hand upon the 

 other and sink it? Gentlemen, government among men never was 

 organized or contemplated for such a purpose as that never. 



There is lodged in every man's breast an innate love of justice. You 

 can take the vilest criminal, and eliminate his self-interest, and it blazes 

 in his bosom. No man can eradicate the love of justice. Robert E. 

 Lee said: " The biggest word in the English language is duty." Well, 

 he was close to the mark, but there is one bigger word than that, and 

 that is justice and fair dealing among men. 



Now, sir, if I were to see a dog fight out in the street, and if I were to 

 see one man go and take hold of the leg of one of those dogs and hold him 

 while the other one chewed him up, I would have a contempt for that 

 man as long as I lived. Suppose there was a boat race between Yale 

 and Harvard on the Hudson Kiver, and they had been practicing for 

 mouths. Suppose the river was lined with a vast multitude to see a 

 fair contest, and just before they started here would arrive a brass- 

 buttoned officer, sent by Congress to tie a log to Yale's boat. Every 

 man, woman, and child on the bank of that river would curse this 



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