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the lard sellers. The National Butcher's Union of the United 

 States have discovered that lard cannot be sold simultaneously 

 under two heads, and could not very well be sold for butter and 

 sold also for lard. They discovered, after taking a long while 

 to make the discovery, that they had been buying and selling 

 for a number of years, cottonseed oil, tallow, and other com- 

 pounds of miscellaneous and somewhat doubtful character for 

 pure leaf lard. They have reasoned in their minds that such a condi- 

 tion of affairs is hardly honest and seems a downright imposition 

 on the customers, and they are at present knocking at the doors of 

 congress with petitions asking that a law similar to the oleomar- 

 garine law, placing lard under control of the internal revenue 

 department, and under a tax, be passed at the next session of 

 our National Legislature. This is help in a direction which we 

 little expected. 



But on the other hand I must say to you that at the late 

 meeting of the National Cattle Grower's Association of this 

 country in Kansas City, attempts were made to place upon its 

 records at various times during the session, resolutions to the 

 effect that as a body they should call upon congress to repeal 

 the oleomargarine law and condemn any attempt at taxing that 

 spurious compound. A strong fight in committee brought out 

 a compromise resolution censuring the Illinois State Board of 

 Agriculture for refusing oleomargarine a place in the Chicago 

 show, and it was found impolitic to go further. This is a little 

 less than welcome at the hands of those whom we had always 

 thought should be with us and remain with us. Let me say to 

 you, ladies and gentlemen, that there is a misconception in this 

 matter, grown up from statements circulated through this coun- 

 try broadcast, that the attempt to regulate the sale of oleomar- 

 garine in this country, was a terrible blow directed against the 

 interests of the best stock breeders and feeders of the United 

 States. It is a misconception, it is an error, it is a glaring and 

 foul falsehood. There are no two interests in this country, or 

 any other, that should go hand in hand and remain united more 



