870 OLEOMARGARINE, 



At page 81 of the Senate hearings Mr. Adarns feels called upon to 

 deny the only record of his statement before the House committee, to 

 the effect that he wanted to drive the oleomargarine manufacturer out 

 of the business. And Mr. Knight at the same time disputed the 

 authenticity of the letter purporting to have been written by him to 

 the Virginia dairymen, and which was to the same general effect. 

 Your committee will recall and it is in evidence at pages 220, 234, 235, 

 248, 252, 253, and 254^-the efforts to get the Philadelphia delegation 

 on record as to whether they wanted a total destruction of the industry 

 or merely wanted oleomargarine kept OIL^ own side of the fence. 

 The delegates all evidently had views of , ic Ur own, but their attorney 

 insisted on talking for them, and in the efrMr. Grout insisted on tell- 

 ing him what to say, and he said it. Thei , is nothing more true in the 

 Bible, however, than that "from the fullness of the heart the mouth 

 speaketh." And because of this failing of the human mind, rather 

 than from any intention on the part of the friends of this bill, we have 

 the gentlemen on record. 



At page 4 of the House Hearings Governor Hoard says: "The 

 whole proposition is in a nutshell force out the color or semblance to 

 butter and you put a stop to its being imposed upon the consumer for 

 butter." He does not say raise the price of the colored article, but 

 "force out the color." At page 62 of the House Hearings Mr. 

 Knight says: "1 do not believe that there is any necessity for the col- 

 ored oleomargarine being sold." At page 69 of the House Hearings 

 Mr. Hewes, whom the committee will remember, says: "The 10-cent 

 tax is with the view of prohibiting all manufacture of oleomargarine 

 yellow unless they want to pay the penalty. It is to tax that yellow 

 color." And Mr. Adams, in his correction of the minority report 

 (Senate Hearings, p. 81), says: 



He simply stated * * * that we had no purpose to stop the manufacture and sale 

 of oleomargarine, but simply of the colored imitation counterfeit product. 



Mr. Grout keeps himself well in reserve on the subject of crowding 

 out any recognized product, but at the tor> of page 9 of the Senate 

 Hearings he becomes warmed up to his subject and says: "But if you 

 will put this 10-cent tax on it and stop all coloring like butter, the 

 game will then be up." This same expression, which seems to be an 

 outlet for his pent-up feelings, was again delivered with great orator- 

 ical effect before your honorable committee on the last day of your 

 regular hearings on this subject> and at which hearing, as appears 

 (Senate Hearings, pp. 579, 580) of record, Mr. Grout was asked 

 directly, and failed to answer, how, under his bill, the factories could 

 supply their export trade or their orders from consumers who wanted 

 the colored oleomargarine and were willing to pay the extra 10 cents 

 per pound, when their return to the Government would be a sworn 

 plea of guilty to the violation of a State law and would put them 

 immediately in the grasp of the State officers in thirty-two States of 

 the Union. A letter from Mr. Blackburn, quoted at page 354, says: 

 " We should stand together in a fight to a finish against oleomargarine." 



Mr. Hamilton, of Pennsylvania, on page 152 of the Senate hearings, 

 quotes with approval from the governor's message, which says: 



I am much gratified at the prospects of the early passage in Congress of the Grout 

 bill; for if this bill becomes a law, it will greatly aid in the suppression of the oleo- 

 margarine traffic. 



