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produce a new and attractive shade. Very often we see the ladies 

 adopt a certain new shade that comes out. If the color is attractive 

 and new and pleases the eye, such a demand is immediately created 

 for it that its producer becomes rich. 



Mr. KNIGHT. Mr. Jelke, may I ask a question at this point ? Do you 

 know whether there is any one color of silk to which the consumer is 

 so attracted that he refuses any other color? 



Mr. JELKE. Well, yes. They will not take a color of silk, Mr. 

 Knight, that is displeasing to their sight if they can get what they 

 want. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. The question which the chairman asked has not, 

 to my mind, been satisfactorily answered. Perhaps it can not be; but 

 I think I can assist in answering it to some degree. That question was 

 as to how colored oleomargarine can be sold in those States which have 

 the anticolor law without a violation of the statutes of those States. 



For instance, Rhode Island borders on Massachusetts. The factories 

 in Rhode Island take their orders from the consumers in Massachusetts 

 in such a way that the sale takes place in Ehode Island, where it is 

 perfectly lawful. In that way the goods enter Massachusetts in a way 

 which is not in violation or even in evasion of the Massachusetts 

 statutes. 



The AciiNG CHAIRMAN. How does the Massachusetts merchant 

 handle the situation after he gets over there? 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. I do not say that the Massachusetts dealer can 

 sell his product to his consumers without a violation of the law, sir. 

 What I mean is we sell them directly to the consumer. Of course, to 

 carry that argument out, if a person in Massachusetts came over the 

 line of Rhode Island, bought a package of oleomargarine, and took it 

 home, that would be no violation of the law of Massachusetts; and that 

 is precisely the theory upon which the whole business is conducted, in 

 so far as it applies to those places which are near enough to Rhode 

 Island to supply the Massachusetts customers. In other words, in 

 Massachusetts the sale takes place in the State where it is lawful that 

 it should take place, and there is no violation or even evasion of the 

 statutes. 



Mr. KNIGHT. That is just exactly what we are after. 



STATEMENT OF J. J. CULBERTSON, OF DALLAS, TEX. 



Mr. CULBERTSON. Mr. Chairman, as secretary and treasurer of the 

 Continental Cotton Oil Company of New York, and also as represent- 

 ing a number of cotton mills in the Southern States, I want to bring 

 before you some facts on this question that are intimately associated 

 with our industry. 



We are what might be termed an infant industry, in our swaddling 

 clothes, perhaps. We have had some pins sticking in us years since, 

 and they are pricking us now. We do not ask for protection; but we 

 do ask to be let alone. 



The cotton -seed oil industry is a comparatively new one. Thirty 

 years since it was practically unknown. We have to-day some four 

 hundred mills throughout the South; and in the State from which I 

 come we have some 112 or 120, including the Territories. 



The development of the industry, I think, has shown more progress 

 than anything in the industrial line in the South, and has become one 

 of its leading industries. The products that are made are practically 

 new to the manufacturing and commercial world, and they naturally 



