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If there should be any consumer whose taste is so 

 vitiated that he must have these villainous compounds, 

 if there should be one specimen of mankind that has 

 become so soured on his digestive organs that he finds 

 comfort and satisfaction in loading them up with cold 

 pressed lard and cotton seed oil churned in buttermilk, 

 no vender of creamery or Jersey butter should be 

 allowed to impose his goods upon him. We insist that 

 as some of us have tastes in the direction of pure cow 

 butter, we should enjoy equal protection. If forbidden 

 to counterfeit, there would be little sale for butterine. 



There are three things that this Association may 

 properly undertake to do. First — To pass strong reso- 

 lutions favoring the Hatch Original Package bill and 

 then follow it up with petitions praying Congress to 

 enact the same* Second — To appoint a committee 

 who shall take pains to look up the matter and see if 

 there is not criminal negligence among our revenue 

 officers in not enforcing the national law. Third — To 

 appoint a committee on legislation who shall use all 

 legitimate means to secure the passage of a bill similar 

 to the one introduced by Mr.. Reed. 



I do not sympathize with the sentiment that would 

 prohibit these articles merely because the sale of them 

 tends to lower the price of the commodity that I and 

 my friends happen to be engaged in producing. This 

 would be selfish. 



Of course, the forty-four million pounds of bogus 

 butter put up on the market last year displaced so 

 many pounds of genuine butter. If it were just as 

 good, just as healthy, and were placed upon the market 

 and sold for just what its name indicates, there would 

 be no reasonable grounds for complaint. If in the 

 race for supremacy the cow when placed upon an 



