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ter." Of course you take that kind. It is nicely wrapped in paraffined 

 paper, marked Elgin, or some other equally delusive name, but when you 

 ^et it to the table it proves to be, Oh, horrors^- process butter, and visions 

 of its composite pedigree and its whole abominable ancestry rise before 

 you until you are ready in your righteous indignation to commit man- 

 slaughter on the first dairyman you see. You curse the groceryman, but 

 lie swears that he bought it for creamery butter and there is no use in 

 murdering him. And so the whole wretched business goes on year in 

 and year out until the housewife who has known good butter sometimes 

 surrenders and orders butterine straight, and finds it far more satisfac- 

 tory than the butter she has been able to secure. This too, is no fancy 

 picture, for I can point you to many a family of good livers that have 

 gone over to butterine. As matters are going now, and in spite of all that 

 lias been written and said, we need not be surprised shortly to hear of 

 legislation to prevent the sale of butter as butterine. We have been 

 industrious in our opposition to butterine and there has been good reason 

 for it. In our zeal, however, we have overlooked some important items. 



Now the truth is there is no natural competition between butter 

 and butterine. The appeal to different classes of people, and it is folly 

 to say that either is necessarily bad or unwholesome. Butterine, like 

 butter, is good or bad, according to the way in which it is made, and in 

 respect to pedigree, in my way of thinking, neither can make faces at 

 the other. I have said that these two products are suited to the condi- 

 tions of widely different classes of people. Good butter, well made from 

 €lean milk, is so infinitely superior to butterine in flavor, that once 

 tasted nothing else will satisfy, and it will be eagerly taken at a price 

 which is prohibitive to thousands of people to whom ten cent butterine 

 Is a Godsend. And I say to you in all candor what everybody knows, 

 but what nobody likes to talk atout — that the reason we feel the compe- 

 tition of butterine so severely is that the butter of the markets is not good 

 enough, so that butterine is coming to be actually preferred to much of 

 it; and I say further that while every good citizen is bound to help pre- 

 Tent one product being sold for another, yet any attempt to abolish but- 

 terine will arouse the opposition of the thousands engaged in producing 



