736 OLEOMARGARINE. 



occasionally. It is against the law down in our country to steal a 

 horse, but they do steal one occasionally. Still, I would take it that 

 in the main the law was enforced. 



Mr. NEVILLE. If, as a matter of fact, all the ingredients in oleomar- 

 garine are healthy and wholesome and it is cleanly made, is it not true 

 that it would recommend itself without being in imitation of anything 

 else? 



Mr. SANSOM. That is probably true, and you might educate the peo- 

 ple to eat white butterine. The same thing applies to other articles, 

 and it might apply if you took the color out of your dairy butter. It is 

 a matter of custom, largely. 



Mr. NEVILLE. You would not maintain for a moment that you would 

 have the right to build up a traffic in any kind of product and palm it 

 off on the people as something it was not? 



Mr. SANSOM. No, sir; we do not wish to do that, and are not here 

 in the interest of any concern that we understand is doing that. We 

 are here simply for the purpose of keeping the color on butter the same 

 as we color other kinds of goods. People do not like white or uncolored 

 butter. You would not want to come in here with red clothes on, 

 because it would be very unusual. We do not want to force people to 

 use things that are not fashionable. We do not want to do that.- 



STATEMENT OF MR, A. D. ALLEN, REPRESENTING THE CONSUMERS 

 COTTON OIL COMPANY, OF LITTLE ROCK, ARK. 



Mr. ALLEN. After so much has been said here, I think it would be 

 merely thrashing over old straw to add to the discussion. In fact, I 

 have nothing to add. In our town of Little Eock we have four oil 

 mills, representing a plant investment of three quarters of a million <,f 

 dollars, aod we pay to the farmers perhaps as much more for seed dur- 

 ing the season. We employ between four and five hundred men in the 

 mills, and those men are mostly well, you might say 80 per cent of 

 them unskilled laborers, negroes, that we employ in the mills, ranging 

 from $1.15 to $2 a day. Those people are dependent upon our manu- 

 factories there for a living, and we get our seed from the farmers around 

 us. It is quite an industry. It is, I expect, the largest covered indus- 

 try we have in the State of Arkansas, and we feel that we ought not to 

 be oppressed. I do not know that I can add anything to what has been 

 said before, and I thank you, gentlemen. 



STATEMENT OF MR. F. W. BRADY, OF MEMPHIS, TENN. 



Mr. BRADY. I can scarcely add anything to the remarks given here. 

 I have come here in the interest of the committee. The ground has 

 been gone over very fully here, and very ably by Mr. Aldrich and Mr. 

 Allison; 1 merely wish to call your attention to one fact which may 

 have been lost sight of, the general industry of the cotton seed product 

 in the mills, the cotton seed of the whole South. I understand the 

 dairy interest is only in five States and I also wish to say here that the 

 South, I do not believe, ever has come to Congress and the Government 

 for any legislation in any shape, manner, or form. I do not think they 

 ever have asked protection for anything. This is the only industry 

 they can really call their own. I do not believe there is anything else 

 of such magnitude, and therefore I want to call attention to it. 



In the fourteen States in the South, representing the whole South 



