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Now, it occurs to me this way, that this thing has simmered down very 

 largely to the matter of color. We are not a manufacturing people 

 there in Texas. We hope some day to get in line and are getting along 

 a little. This is really the only manufacturing industry we have worth 

 speaking of in the State, in which we have about 130 mills. 



We are perhaps the largest buyers of imported goods in this Union. 

 When I say imported, I mean from other States. We send our cotton 

 up here to our Eastern neighbors and they make it into goods so beau- 

 tiful and so fine we do not know whether it is silk or cotton; but we 

 have never said that they have no right to do that, but we have gone 

 on and bought the cotton. They have put a coloring in it which makes 

 it very beautiful and tine, and it suits us, and then we want to buy it. 

 And we can see no reason why things should not be colored. They put 

 a color on all kinds of machinery we buy. I do not know whether col- 

 oring makes machinery any better; perhaps it does. Whether it makes 

 butter any better 1 do not know, but I suppose the people like it better 

 for that reason. But we simply enter our protest, insomuch as we 

 understand it, from the cattle raisers' standpoint, regarding this as a 

 question of class legislation, one class against the other, and it appears 

 to us we are not considered as we should be in this matter. All we 

 ask is to be let alone. Of course if we are doing anything that is going 

 to really injure anybody, then we are willing to be called down; but we 

 do not think it is proper and just to people that have been struggling 

 as we have, sending away all of our raw material to be manufactured 

 elsewhere, and this is the only manufacturing industry that we have. 

 I will say that all of our cotton has been sent away to be manufactured 

 to the Eastern cities and it has been manufactured and we have sent 

 all our hides and cattle. We are now engaged in the manufacture of 

 this product, in the manufacture of cotton-seed oil, and it is a big 

 thing to our people, and Texas, and from this we expect to get into 

 other lines, and if we get stricken down and knocked out in this matter 

 right on the start we do not think it is really fair. 



Mr. NEVILLE. If you were to send your cotton up to the manufactur- 

 ing concerns up here and they should manufacture it into imitation 

 silks and send it down to you and sell it to you for silk, would you care 

 or not? 



Mr. SANSOM. If they sold it to me at a proper price, I probably would 

 not. If they sold it to me for a price that was unjust, I probably would 

 not like it. 



Mr. NEVILLE. The difference is that you manufacture this oleomar- 

 garine in such a shape that I can not tell it from butter, and they put 

 cotton -seed oil and other kinds of oil into it and deceive me, and yet 

 you think it does not hurt me and you insist that you have a right to 

 do that. 



Mr. SANSOM. I would like to answer that question this way : If the 

 silk producer and the wool producer, if you please, had as much right 

 to come to Congress and ask for legislation against wool entering into 

 the manufacture of cotton goods, or cotton into wool goods, which is 

 usually the cheaper of the two, as you all know very well as you 

 know woolen goods has always a percentage of cotton goods mixed 

 in with it now, the wool man would have just as much right to come 

 to us, he manufacturing the most valuable part of it. We object to 

 this. You and all of the balance of us have worn and are wearing 

 every day what is supposed to be till wool and a yard wide, and yet we 

 all know that there is a large percentage of cotton in all this goods. 

 You are not particularly damaged and you have got your goods worth 



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