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special plea about the poor man: I am simply speaking about the 

 fiU'ts\ but because the follow who makes the butter and himselt 'colors 

 it wants his particular business to be legislated into a monopoly. 



Now, in respect lo this matter of petitions, about which I have 

 heard a good deal, there is not to my mind the slighest doubt in the 

 world that they have been manufactured. The dairy in: testa have 

 gone out among farmers and persuaded them that their interests were 

 ; . with by this product, and having gotten their names 

 on vu without their ever having come voluntarily forward to sign 



any of those petitions at all. And I assert, without the slightest hesi- 

 tation as to the truth of what I am stating, that 90 per cent of the 

 farn c he South could be gotten to sign a petition asking for 



e of you to vote against this bill. I have not the slightest 

 >t that 50 per cent of all the working people of every State in this 

 Union would do the same thing; and I know I could go to the Bethle- 

 hem Iron Works and get 90 per cent of the people there, by a repre- 

 mon of what you are doing and what you propose to do, to sign a 

 petition demanding that you should not vote to destroy the best 

 improvement in foodstuffs which has been made for the last quarter 

 century for the benefit of those who have to live economically, 

 whether they are working people or whether they are not. 



I assert another thing, which is a repetition of that which has already 

 been stated that if yon are passing this bill in the belief that it is in 

 accordance with the wishes of yonr constituents, when yon pass it you 

 will hear from yonr constituents again. Your constituents on the 

 other side have not any appreciation of what yon propose to do. The 

 people who are interested in the cotton business and the cotton-seed oil 

 ness have been absolutely idle in this matter, whereas the friends 

 of the bill have been securing petition alter petition, using money and 

 labor, and getting the names of people who were not interested in it aft 

 alL Now. I wonM like to make a wager that the petitions you will get 

 if this bill is passed, after it is passed, will immensely exceed those 

 which you have gotten before. I claim that those yon have gotten 

 have been mannfitttmred to a very large extent, while those which ytm 

 wffl get wffl be spontaneous art e**tge*K. And they will come from 

 Maine and from Pennsylvania and from Ohio and California aMlTVuna* 

 and from every other Slate of the Union; because there are too 

 people interested in this subject* vitally and in their 

 people who would look upon it as being exactly the 

 law which would prevent an ordinary girl 

 whkh imitated somebody efatfs fin* fioek- 

 whk* womtt permit the mse of anffiae djro, which 

 better, boons* somebody wanted to ] 



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