860 OLEOMARGARINE. 



it is not. * * * Does the freedom of commerce among the States demand a recog- 

 nition of the right to practice a deception upon the public in the sale of any articles, 

 even those that may have become the subject of trade in different parts of the 

 country? 



The Grout bill in its proviso affords the same privilege to dealers in 

 oleomargarine that the statute of Massachusetts afforded, and only 

 gives vitality and power to laws of the same liberality of construction. 



The substitute bill, known as the Wadsworth or the minority bill, is 

 the old attempt at regulating presented in a different form; all of the 

 safeguards against deception and fraud can be broken down with the 

 same ease that other regulating laws have been violated; protection 

 can only come by taking away the color, or if the manufacturer sees 

 fit to pay the 10-cent tax for the privilege of imitating yellow butter, 

 then the difference in price being greatly reduced the inducement to 

 defraud is considerably lessened. The true delight from eating butter 

 comes to the palate, not the eye, and pure butter by any other color 

 than yellow would taste as sweet. Why does this not hold true of 

 oleomargarine? 



JAMES HEWES, 

 President Produce Exchange, 

 Vice- President National Dairy Union. 



