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Show Wants Oleomargarine Tax Abolished. Washington. George 13. Green of Peoria, secretary of the Illinois Mercantile Mer-cantile association, told tho house commltteo on agriculture on Saturday that as a huckster, back in tho '80s, be nad difficulty In soiling white butter. but-ter. Ho urged tho committee to remove re-move all tho restrictions on oleomargarine. oleomar-garine. Tho tax was characterized by 'Mr. Green as an Incontlvo to evasion and misrepresentation. Tho retail sale of. oleomargarine In tho original packnges was his solution of the whole trouble. |