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the money, and you have the same right the wool man does to come to 

 Congress and ask to have these people stopped from mixing this goods 

 and forced to make it all cotton or all wool. 



Mr. NEVILLE. Don't you believe that we would have the right to 

 come to Congress and ask them to prohibit the manufacturing of cot- 

 ton goods and the selling it as silk goods? 



Mr. SANSOM. We believe in letting people who are enterprising and 

 trying to produce something for themselves go on and try to produce 

 the best results. We do not think the position taken by the people 

 who are urging this bill here, asking the Congress of the United States 

 to come to their relief we do not think the ground is well taken, and 

 we think for you to lend the assistance of this Government to the manu- 

 facturer of one article, for the product of one article, above and to the 

 discrimination of another which is equally pure, as we claim, from the 

 standpoint of our country that furnishes the lard and tallow and the 

 oil that goes into this product, is wrong and unjust. I do not under- 

 stand that the purity of this food has really been questioned at all, and 

 if we have done this we can not see why we should be discriminated 

 against. 



Mr. COONEY. What is your connection with the cattle business? 



Mr. SANSOM. I raise cattle and feed cattle pretty extensively. I am 

 what we call a pretty large feeder in Texas. 



Mr. COONEY. Is your business more largely involved with the cattle 

 feeding and raising than with the oil production. 



Mr. SANSOM. Yes, sir; my interest is much larger in that business. 

 I am engaged in the oil mill business, but my business is much greater 

 and I devote much more time to raising and feeding cattle than to the 

 oil business. 



Mr. COONEY. Eaising them on the ranch or buying and selling 

 them ? 



Mr. SANSOM. Yes, sir; I own a ranch, and I buy a great many cattle 

 which I mature at these oil mills feed the product of two or three oil 

 mills. 



In this connection I would like to show further that there has been 

 a disposition from the time we began to manufacture the cotton-seed 

 products on the part of people we came in contact with and that 

 means the dairy people and the Western people who produce beef to 

 discriminate and to knock us out. They had even gone so far as to pro- 

 pose at one time that they would condemn the beef fed on cotton-seed 

 meal. If the beef business had not been handled by such strong hands 

 there is no doubt there would have been some such action taken. But 

 when it came to condemning all the beef fed on cotton-seed meal, the 

 dairy people found that was too strong for them. 



Further, I would like to refer to the value of cotton- seed meal as a 

 food stuff. I myself, as you will see by referring to the Breeders 

 Gazette, furnished beef fed on cotton seed meal to parties in Chicago, 

 in March, 1899, and I have sold cattle in Chicago at 25 cents a hundred 

 above any native steer on the market, for more than forty days after 

 the sale was made, and ten or fifteen days before. In November, 1899, 

 I sold cattle there as high as $6.75 a hundred, which is much higher 

 than the highest price paid for natives at that time, and they were not 

 quite so well finished as those I had sold before. I mention this to show 

 you the interest we have in this legislation ; and whenever any legisla- 

 tion comes up our interest is identical, except that our interest in the 

 cattle is large. Every time you take off 10 cents from cotton seed in 



