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cattle of the country it is impossible to state. Yet you are not only 

 asked to pass laws here to take away the demand for the 24,000,000 

 pounds, but you want to perpetuate the laws in 32 States which destroy 

 the prospect which the manufacturers of oleomargarine and which the 

 growers of hogs and cattle have of an increased demand in this country 

 in the near future of 500,000,000 pounds a year. The people of this 

 country who consume food products have a right to indulge their 

 tastes, if they want to, in that direction, and it is depriving the people 

 of the comforts and necessaries of life to say they shall not have oleo- 

 margarine in a colored state, if they want to buy it in that state and 

 know what they are buying at the time. 



Gentlemen, I have not taken up your time in regard to the coloring 

 matter, or a great many other subjects that have been before you here- 

 tofore. I am not an expert in the manufacture of oleomargarine. I 

 have no connection with any manufacturing establishment. What I 

 objected to in regard to the remarks of Governor Hoard was that he 

 placed all the opponents of this bill in what is called the oleomarga- 

 rine trust. I do not know anything about any trust. I am not in any 

 trust. I. am here to speak for those who raise cattle and hogs, and 

 who ask the Congress that their product shall not be legislated against 

 and discriminated against by Congressional legislation. They repre- 

 sent a vast population in the United States. Their property represents 

 a capital of $600,000,000. 



They have never before asked to be heard as a national association 

 before this committee or before any other committee of Congress. 

 They now ask to be heard, and they ask that their memorial which I 

 have presented here to-day shall be considered fairly and that they 

 may be placed, by the legislation of Congress, upon an equal footing 

 with the other farmers of the country, for they are farmers and have 

 the right to sell their products in the markets where they can get the 

 most for them, and not be hampered by restrictive legislation, either 

 by Congress or by the States, that will destroy in a measure a portion 

 of the value of the products which they are engaged in raising. 



I thank you, gentlemen. 



STATEMENT OF G. M. WALDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE KANSAS 

 CITY LIVE STOCK EXCHANGE. 



MR. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN OF THE COMMITTEE: Business 

 engagements of great importance prevent my appearing before your 

 honorable body in person to present the protest of the Kansas City 

 Live Stock Exchange against the passage of the Grout bill, the pro- 

 visions of which you are familiar with. Arguments have been pre- 

 sented before you from the allied interests for and against, with the 

 exception of the live-stock commission merchant. 



The Kansas City Live Stock Exchange is composed of 300 members, 

 90 per cent of whom are engaged in buying and selling live stock, and 

 by their zeal and enterprise have succeeded in building the second 

 largest live-stock market of the world. During the year just closed 

 there were received 1,970,000 head of cattle, 69 per cent of which were 

 killing grades; 50 per cent of these killing grades furnish the butter 

 fats used in the manufacture of oleomargarine, 19 per cent represent- 

 ing the more common beef and "canner" grades, which furnish an 

 insignificant per cent of butter fat. The remaining 31 per cent are 



