Show A PATERNAL GOVERNMENT The Th The ruling regarding certain con eon of ot oleomargarine Just promulgated promulgated gated pt d by R E Cabell commissioner of ot internal revenue has hae In It the ring of ot fairness as well as decided economic value to tho wage earner From the latter point of ot view It Is a to the tha high prices of ot the butter trust and will make a horizontal cut of ot 10 cents a pound In butter from prices that otherwise prevail Heretofore when the product known as s oleomargarine has hae been compounded with Ingredients such as aa peanut oil or orether orether ether other food substances which gave It a appearance such compounding com compounding pounding has been classed as coloring and the tho t c product has been taxed 10 le a pound under un i rth the Internal rev revenue revenue revenue laws taws By the new ruling wherever the quantity qu of these coloring oils Is suf cut fl dent to be regarded as constituent parts 19 of the oleomargarine this tax taxI wt M I not be collected As In practically al an good colored oleomargarine these oils are sufficient to come within the riling apart from their coloring value U t s 5 a mattor of sequence that the ta tao tais tai is fg nut nM ne collectible The imposition not of the he 10 cents a pound tax on oleomargarine that looked like butter was secured by bythe bythe bythe the dairy dain trusts of the eastern and states and for years has been sufficient FUme lent to t enable those trusts Ica ly to fix the price at which butter aas as sold in all the large centers ot of population In the United States It was M 30 cents r a 3 pound bounty which how however however ever eer unnecessary to the fostering of the dairy industry was exacted by the th eastern dairy dalr associations Its original imposition was wa secured by those asso representing that colored oleo oleomargarine oleomargarine margarine must of ot necessity contain ratter deleterious to food This theory has been b en exploded long since and under the restrictions of ot the pur pure food law it Is known that oleo oleomargarine oleomargarine oleomargarine margarine Including its Us colored con constituents constituents is quite as clean and pure as ordinary fresh butter and much better than the seconds of any creamery product Owing to this fact and the further item item of cheapness chea mess s fn n tl n It has JIRS become be an Invaluable food irr the working classes ol s s who could not afford fantastic prices Hereafter the eastern butter trust must reckon with colored oleomargarine ire rine on a basis of merit and fix its Us but butter butter butter ter prices at 10 cents less than the for former forner forner ner mer basis for all aU of ot which the butter butteri i C will be thankful and the oleo maker will feel that he now has a field fieldor Cor or fair and beneficial competition Connected with the long warfare be between between between tween the dairy trust and the manu fa of oleomargarine there is cor considerable Interest in the item which hose manufacturers were able to have inserted in the revenue law against the bitter protest of the tha dairymen This tv was as that butter containing more than 16 per cent of moisture should he re regarded regarded as adulterated and also be sub 1 t to a tax of 10 cents a pound For Fort t f for the public p the commis commissioners loners ruling does not modify the re requirement Its great necessity is ob obi i IOUS lous In the fact that government tests have demonstrated that In some places tr I were sending out butter cC 56 per cent or over one half of moisture Itah butter consumers have not es escaped escaped 8 ed the Imposition for creamery creamer products In Salt SaIt lake have been found t all the way from 19 to 31 per peri percent i cent ent of moisture and people thus Ihus have hie hieb been b en compelled to pay butter prices for large quantities of water Injected Into the product Sixteen per cent of ot moisture mois moisture moisture ture the standard fixed by the govern government meat ment as the line Une of adulteration is am nm yle indeed good butter really has ap approximately approximately proximately 13 IS per cent moisture only By the rigid enforcement particular particularly ly h during the past two years cars of the provision relating to the adulteration of butter the Internal revenue re n e department depart department ment has compelled the serving lie vIng to the consumer of or a vastly improved quality of ot butter now ow the same sam division of the government comes to the further relief of the public by sweeping away 10 cents a pound in the puce of ofa a very important article of filet liet As wo we all aU are lira grateful for small favors fa favors vors ors so the public pub will be e doubly thankful for this great boon of ot eliminating eliminating a large proportion of ot the cost ft rf t putting on n the market an extensive extensively ly Is used food product and preventing a aIke tike Ike exorbitant 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