696 OLEOMAEGARINE. 



Government with curses loud and deep for such an act of infamy and 

 injustice. 



Yet, gentlemen, that is precisely what you are asked to do by the 

 curled darlings of the dairy. They will admit to you, and they have 

 done it before your committee, that this product of ours is pure, it is 

 healthful, it is nutritious; and yet they say, "Because it competes with 

 us, kill it!" 



Now, I know that there are a lot of Congressmen going to vote for 

 just such unjust and outrageous legislation as that. They have got to 

 do it. They live in a dairy district. They have got to put their con- 

 science deep down in the seat of their pants, and sit on it while they 

 vote, too. It is vote that way or lose their place. Well, maybe I 

 would do the same thing; I don't know. I hope to God I never will be 

 tempted that way. 



Now, these dairymen are wealthy. They tell you how much they 

 control. They appropriated $14,000 lately for this campaign; and 

 every little dairyman that milks a cow in the United States has run 

 around and gotten all his neighbors to sign a petition; and yet, to day 

 there are not 20 per cent of them who can remember ever signing a 

 petition, or who know what was in it when they did sign it, and yet 

 they have flooded your committee with these petitions. 



Now, gentlemen, is there any reason why this unjust legislation 

 should be accomplished? Why, butter is higher to-day than it ever 

 was. It is higher than it was forty, twenty, or ten years ago; and they 

 can not supply the demand. I see that New York is short of butter 

 all the time. They want a monopoly, so that they can put their prices 

 out of sight; and when they do, they want the people that are not able 

 to pay for it to be denied this wholesome article of food. These dairy- 

 men are already immunes from smallpox, and they ask of the Govern- 

 ment to give them immunity against competition. That is their posi- 

 tion. Now, who are on the other side? Why, the dairyman himself 

 is halfway on the other side, because the value of every bull calf born 

 on his farm is increased by the manufacture of oleomargarine. He 

 does not know it, but he is. In the first place, these cotton farmers 

 that I have been telling you about are on the other side. The oil mills, 

 the recent development all over the South, are on the other side. The 

 butterine makers are on the other side. The manufacturing establish- 

 ments all over the North, that make the machinery for the oil mills, are 

 on the other side. The mill in which I am interested bought its machin- 

 ery in Ohio, bought part of its apparatus in Chicago, bought another 

 part in Massachusetts, and bought something from almost every por- 

 tion of the North. Those people, those manufacturers, are on the other 

 side. The cattlemen are on the other side. I do not know about it 

 myself, as 1 am not a cattleman. But the southwest cattle convention 

 that met at Fort Worth declared that the manufacture of oleomar- 

 garine added about $3 to the value of every beef steer raised, and 

 they protested, in the strongest terms, against this legislation. The 

 hog men are on the other side, because butterine or oleomargarine is 

 made from the very purest, best fat of the beef, the very purest, best 

 fat of the hog, cotton seed oil, cream and butter, churned together. 

 And the laboring men, all over this country, are on the other side. 



Gentlemen, the first thing I did yesterday morning when I reached 

 Washington City was to go over to the market. I found two stalls 

 there, butterine stalls. There are quite a number of butter stalls, but 

 I found two butterine stalls. One of them had in great gilt letters 

 over if, "Only butterine sold here." The other had a great glass sign 



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