Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1882 — Bogus Rutter. [ARTICLE]

Bogus Rutter.

Missouri has a new law forbidding the manufacture or sale in that State of any imitation of butter, no matter whether represented to be genuine or not. The oleomargarine: interest made a desperate fight in a test case tried in St.LcUiS, but it was decided that the prohibitory act was constitutional.. The case was appealed, and the fight will be renewed in the State Supreme Cburt. The result will be watched with i great deal of interest, and if the'decision is sustained it is probable t hat several other States will endeavor to secure the passage of similar laws. In Illinois, Where the manufacture oi bogus butter has reached the propdrtions of- a mammoth business, Requiring millions of capital to conduct it, the enforcment of Such a law would meet with still greater opposition than in Missouri. The makers of gepulne butter, however, would indorse such a move, and lend the full force of their means and influence to carry out its provisions. The {Missouri decision has had the effect to arouse the feeling against the “bull” butter makers in Chicago, and every effort will at once be made to foster a still greater opposition to the fraudulent stuff. The honest dealers here have for three years waged a war upon the makers and those who retail these imitations of butter, and if such a prohibitory law as exists in Missouri could be enforced in Illinois it would result in the abandonment of a business that carries with it so many evidences of fraud and deception.

Mr. O. A. Porter, president of the North Chicago rolling mills, the greatest corporation in the northwest, says: “My anxiety about the period from October to May arises from this: There might be such a thing as a famine, even in this great country. These long-continued cold rains are very damaging and are causing railroad men to wear very anxious faces. The railroad men know what effect these storms are having. They watch the whole crop-bearing northwest, and instead of increasing their facilities for handling .an. immense crop they are curtailing expenses. Now you can see, with a small crop, apd with the presept light supplies of all the necessaries of life and their exceptionally high prices, what would happen next winter. x A New Hampshire man has borrowed water from a neighbor’s well, one hundred rods away, for twentytwo years.