For National Legislation

                                     FOR NATIONAL LEGISLATION

                                        ________________________

                                     Caspar Rinsey's case May be the Basis.

                                        ________________________

                                           GROSVENOR AGITATING IT

                                        ________________________

                                   Wants An Act That Will Treat A States Just Alike.

                                        ________________________

Caspar Rinsey's oleomargarine case is liable to go to be the basis of national legislation. The Supreme Court of Michigan held that a man could color oleomargarine with harmless matter.

Said Food Commissioner Grosvenor to a reporter :

"As a general proposition, national legislation is desirable because of the difficulty found in procuring for the sale of goods within a state in original packages, which are shipped into that state from another, and also tor the benefit of manufacturers by establishing one standard to be good all over the country, and to prevent the inconvenience and expense now experienced by having to prepare and brand the same products different for different states.
"There is very little in the argument that a national act can be more easily and more certainly enforced than a state act. For comparison, take the national oleomargarine law, which is, of course, distinctly a taxation measure, but framed at the demands of the dairy interests.
The treasury department enforces the taxation feature strictly and to the limit, but among the provisions of the law is one that oleomargarine can not be sold from a stamped package and must be plainly exposed to view.
There are other provisions of this nature, all aimed at compelling the retailer to sell the article for what it really is, and to prevent the exception in pawning off for butter. There is scarcely a store among the many in Michigan where oleomargarine is sold that lives up to these commands.
They all pay their license fee because that feature of the law is rigidly enforced, but very few ever bear any complaint for the infractions of other provisions of this law.

"It cannot be said that the national act, with. its necessarily accompanying red tape, could be so well nor directly enforced as a state act.
A national act along the lines of bills now pending in congress is certainly advisable for the sake of uniformity, if for no other reason.

"The passage of a national act would greatly lessen the work under the state acts, because with the former in operation no state would be permitted to traffic in adulterated goods, as some states where no food laws are on the books are now doing.

"There certainly is necessity for a law repealing the right which today are granted by the courts to goods coming from one state to another and there offered for sale in original packages. Since the proposed national law has had incorporated in it a proivision of this kind, it is more necessary.

"A national pure food act would be a national blessing. and can only be one with a proper recognition of actual hard-fisted propositions which the enforcement of the state laws have made prominent. "