314 OLEOMARG AKINE. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. What time of the year was this? 



Mr. PIERCE. This was in winter. [Laughter.] It would not be apt 

 to have any snowball in it in summer. 



Mr. KNIGHT. It was to refrigerate it, I guess. 



Mr. PIERCE. So you see you can't depend altogether on the farmers. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. Of course not. The idea is, that if this bill 

 were passed it would put a stop to impositions of that sort, whether 

 practiced by farmers, grocers, manufacturers, or anybody else. Do you 

 think the workingmen of your association would seriously resent being 

 guaranteed that they would get what they called and paid for? 



Mr. PIERCE. Well, I know that they don't like this 10-cent business; 

 and they want to buy oleomargarine that is colored. They like that 

 style of it; and they don't like to have to pay this extra 10 cents, or 8 

 cents, or whatever it is going to be. 



Now, that is why our people object. I think the cheaper you keep 

 this oleomargarine the cheaper we will get our country butter, too. 

 That is the way 1 look at it. If you raise this tax to 10 cents, don't 

 you think the farmer will run his butter up, too? 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. Well, I will not undertake to go into that 

 question. 



Mr. PIERCE. I don't know, either; but I just think that way about 

 it. I am looking at it for my own sake there, because I don't want them 

 to raise the price of butter any more. I think 35 cents a pound for 

 butter is enough for anybody. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. That will do, so far as the committee is 

 concerned, Mr. Pierce. 



STATEMENT OF D. A. TOMPKINS, OF CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN (Senator Foster). Mr. Tompkins, do I under- 

 stand that you represent the cotton-seed interest? 



Mr. TOMPKINS. The cotton-seed oil interest yes, sir. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. From what State are you? 



Mr. TOMPKINS. North Carolina. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. How long a time do you wish? Would you 

 like the full time, thirty minutes? 



Mr. TOMPKINS. If I can have thirty minutes, I will be very much 

 obliged to the committee. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. That is all the time we have this morning. 



Mr. TOMPKINS. The committee will be very liberal, then, if it gives 

 me all the time it has. 



Senator HEITFELD. We convene at 12 o'clock, you know, and we can 

 not give you any more time this morning. 



Mr. TOMPKINS. Yes. sir. What I say will be more of a general nature 

 than an attempt to go into specific details ; because, I believe, you have 

 had any quantity of them. 



I have built a great many cotton-seed oil mills, and have given a great 

 deal of time and attention to the subject of finding new uses to which to 

 put the oil. It is a product which is a result of discoveries of the value 

 of cotton seed, and the new uses to which it is being put from time to 

 time exhibit the great value to humanity which is being realized from 

 cotton seed in the way of getting a good, wholesome food product. 



English literature is absolutely full of the fights of old methods with 

 new methods of the resistance of peoples who are behind the times 

 against those who have made a step foiward, and who have put some- 

 thing into the field of competition. And you will admit the value of 



