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the state legislature to determine. Appeal can not be 

 had to the judiciary but must be addressed to the state 

 legislature through the ballot-box. 



The opinion also holds that the Fourteenth Amend- 

 ment was not designed to interfere with the exercise of 

 the police power by the state for the protection of health, 

 the prevention of fraud, and the preservation of public 

 morals. 



Upon these grounds the U. S. Supreme Court affirmed 

 the judgment of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. 



THE FEDERAL LAW OF l886. 



The federal law defines butter and oleomargarine as 

 follows : — 



Sec. I. That for the purpose of this act the word "butter" 

 shall be understood to mean the food product usually known 

 as butter, and which is made exclusively from milk or cream, 

 or both, with or without common salt, and with or without 

 additional coloring matter. 



Sec. II. That for the purposes of this act certain manu- 

 factured substances, certain extracts, and certain mixtures and 

 compounds, including such mixtures and compounds with 

 butter, shall be known and designated as " oleomargarine," 

 namely : All substances heretofore known as oleomar- 

 garine, oleo, oleomargarine-oil, butterine, lardine, suine, 

 and neutral ; all mixtures and compounds of oleomargarine, 

 oleo, oleomargarine-oil, butterine, lardine, suine, and neutral ; 

 all lard extracts and tallow extracts ; and all mixtures and 

 compounds of tallow, beef-fat, suet, lard, lard-oil, and vege- 

 table-oil, annotto, and other coloring matter, intestinal fat, 

 and offal fat made in imitation or semblance of butter or 

 when so made, calculated or intended to be sold as butter or 

 for butter. 



It is seen that the federal law does not recognize such 



