Show A few facts the efforts of the opponents q the anti adulterated lard agitation to set the matter before the public as a personal rivalry between a few competitive manufacturers has not succeeded to any extent As the brief submit ted by the complainants to the committee on agriculture truly rays it 3 no such caso otiis the grievance of the hundreds 0 thousands of farmers who raise swine of the butchers of the multitude of packers engaged in the production of lard it is their complaints that their products their trade is being destroyed by the production of compounds that are falsely sold under alio name of th article of food aliey produce and it is equally the cause of the millions of consumers of lard the precise situation adds the brief in question is this one of the great staple products of the united states is lard other articles are being compounded with it and sold to consumers as lard and the precise question to bo considered is whether under that name these compounds may be sold and whether the fact that they are compounds may be concealed from the consuming public at home and abroad this is the whole J question and no device of language or casuistry can make the case other than that it must also bo understood that the advocates of lard legislation do not object lo 10 the use of cotton seed oil as food either alone or in combination with other substances what they desire to suppress is the sale of compounds as lard and the concealment of the fact that they are not lard these things are precept ible enough to be readily comprehended by all those are some 0 the reasons why the advocated of pure lard demand legislation in this matter they say first wo will all agree that in our dealings among ourselves and with foreign markets wo should be honest honest from principle and not merely because honesty is the best poli second we will abreo that it is not honest morally or legally to sell a thing to your neighbor for what it is not and it dishonest to deceive in iho matter of food third we will also all agree that itis not honert to suggest a falsehood for gain nor is it honest to suppress the truth for gain and especially is ita dishonest to tell a lie for gain fourth and wo will all agree that it is not honest to take the name of a well known article of food that has its own and recognized place in trade as aa article of food and of which thousands of people are engaged in producing and which millions are consuming and under that name and to the injury of the trade in that product and especially is it not honest but essentially dishonest to conceal the fact that under the name of the one the other is being sold the principle that has gone into the legislation and jurisprudence of the most advanced nations that protects trademarks trade marks and the like that prohibits the hale of oleomargarine as butter that compels alie branding of an article for just it is condemns such an act as essentially and inherently dishonest let the pure lard advocates come to the front and rally around such a noble and honest declaration of principles the dishonest lard paiL must |