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Show Tea Price of Butter. The dlMuaaiiin given to the sub-jeot sub-jeot of eoat of living baa directed mora or leaa attontlon to the federal oleomargarine tax and the price of buttar. Fuoplo wbo are In favor of repealing the preaout olnomargnrlue law have taken advantage of thr situation to loudly condemn a "undemocratic "un-democratic and mi-American" thla "burdeiiaomu tax on a pure, whole-aome whole-aome and nutrition food product." They conveniently forget to explain ex-plain that over w7 per cent of the oleomargarine put upon the market la taxed at only one-fourth cent per pound. They do not explain that only that oleomargarine that la ar-tllli'lally ar-tllli'lally colored la taxed at leu ueiiis per pound. K.ven If it warn all taxed at ten cents per pound It would have ahao-lutely ahao-lutely nothing to do with the price of butter after the latter reuchea thirty cent a pound retail. It coat about fourteen cent a pound to produce pro-duce the very heat grndn of oleomargarine. oleo-margarine. Add to till a ten cent tax and tint coat uf production would be twenty-four cent a. The product could be retailed nt thirty cent at a handaomo protlt lo manufacturer and retailor. Looking at the qtieatlnn from any view point It I clearly aeen that the oleomargarine law ha absolutely nothing to do with the price of butter. but-ter. The dairy Intereat of the country are not enjoying any hcnollt through oleomargarine legialatlon except a the Integrity uf the Industry la maintained. main-tained. In thla every liouent cltiien ahould feel a keen intereat. Ileahould aiao underatand that the elfort put forth by the manufacturer of oleo-margurliin oleo-margurliin to aecuro legialatlon which will make It eaay for men to commit fraud In aelllng oleomargarine oleomar-garine 1 not Inapirvd by love for the "poor man who wauta a cheap suhatltute for butter." The whole propoaitlou maybe tbu aummed up: oleomargarine I now made to taate and mell oiiiethlng like butter. The manufacturer and a few retail dealer want the privilege privi-lege of putting It upon the market o that it will look like butter, thua making it eaay tocommlt fraud. Every good cltlaen should be Interested In-terested Ineffective pure food legialatlon legia-latlon and the oleomargarine law I Just uuh legialatlon no more, no leaa. |