700 OLEOMARGARINE. 



any State to ostracize and taboo our products if they are healthy, mark 

 you, all the time, if they are good, if they are pure? They talk about 

 police regulations. This Grout bill says that in the exercise of police 

 powers each State shall be permitted to deal with this thing as it pleases. 

 Each State shall be permitted to lay an embargo on our products when 

 not a man in the State will stand up and tell you that our products are 

 not pure, healthy, and good for them. Is that the exercise of a police 

 power? Gentlemen, it is a flaring falsehood on its face. 



Now, this [indicating map] represents all the States in black that 

 have passed this law; and it is very appropriate. It is a shady, dark 

 business. I am glad they put it that way. And I see here Alabama, 

 Georgia, and South Carolina. God knows the idea of a Southern State 

 in legislating against its chief product at the behest of a dairy trust a 

 thousand miles away ! They need the prayers of the church. The fool 

 killer has not got around there yet, evidently. 



Now, gentlemen, I will not detain you much longer. I am about 

 through. These men that are asking this legislation are but trying to 

 impede the wheels of progress. That is all. The genius of this age is 

 manifested in the cheapening of all articles worn or eaten or used by 

 man. More has been accomplished in the last fifty years in that direc- 

 tion than has been accomplished since the time when Adam was a baby. 

 It is the law of nature, gentlemen. What is it? The survival of the 

 fittest development evolution. There is a great law of commerce. 

 What is it? The survival of the cheapest and the best. And the man 

 or set of men who gets in the way of that law is crushed, inevitably. He 

 is bound to be. The whole is greater than any part of it. The welfare 

 of a whole people what is cheapest and best for them will prevail. 

 You might as well attempt to roll the sun back as to deny the people 

 that right. They will have it. 



Now, if the people prefer this article, which the dairy interest is fight- 

 ing simply because their business is exploited by this manufactured 

 article because it is cheaper and just as good as theirs who shall say 

 them nay? 



Why, gentlemen, why did not the shoemakers, the men that sit cross- 

 legged and sew, when these people up here in Boston and New York 

 and all over the country began to make shoes by machinery, come here 

 and ask you to stop it? Yon ought to have done it? The tailors ought 

 never to have allowed the making of hand-me-down clothes. They have 

 just as much argument in their behalf as the dairies. 



Now, the business of the man who makes tallow candles (and I used 

 to mold them myself when 1 w is a boy) was exploited by the discovery 

 of petroleum. Then, petroleum was exploited by the discovery of gas; 

 and, then, gas went to the wall when electric lights flashed out; and 

 yet, in each of these stages, the Government ought to have enjoined 

 the proceeding and stopped it. We can't have that sort of develop- 

 ment. And when the fellow that swung the cradle saw the McCor- 

 mick harvester, that went across the field, and mowed down the grain, 

 and tied it up, and then threshed it, and all that did everything, except 

 eating the biscuit he ought to have enjoined McOormick. 



Gentlemen, these men have gotten in the way of public progress. 

 They say, " But the people eat it as butter, and, therefore, it is a fraud." 

 "Well," I say, "the people eat your yellow winter stuff, as yellow as 

 summer butter, and therefore you are a fraud." But he answers back, 

 "Ours is butter, and that is just as good and just as rich as the yellow 

 butter of summer." Well, I say the same. You can't use any argument 

 that does not apply to us. I say that our stuff is just as good, just as 



