Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-08
ALLERroN,s LKrTER no LOGAN.
dow the Catue-Buyers Will Make Even on
the oleomargarine Tax.
Chicago Ueraid


Chicago Herald
The letter which Samuel w. Allerton
yesterday sent to Senator Logan is likely
to provoke another hot discussion of the
oleomargarine question, 1t is as follows;
DEAR SIR: | notice that The oleomar-
garine bill, having passed the house, has
now been reported to the senate without
amendment. The general expectation
seems to be that your honorable body Will
adopt it also, with the idea OF placing the
responsibility on the president if he
should see fit to veto it, There is no
justice or right in this oleomargarine
measure, and the senate Of the United
States should never permit 1t to reach the
president for his signature.
Let me call your attention to few facts
regarding the bill; In the first place the
bill is alleged to provide for tax upon
oleomargarine, when, in fact, 1t calls for
a tax upon all the cattle raised in the
! United States. II ostensibly cuts down
/ the profits upon the manufacturer Of oleo-
margarine, but, in fact, cuts down the
selling price of every steer raised in this
country. The tax Of . cents per pound
upon oleomargarine, as provided for In
this bill, would not place one penny into
! the pockets of the dairymen of the coun-
| Try, but it would take 81 per head off the
market price of every steer r. seq in the
American Union, and l yill you
why; The heaviest makers OF oleo-
margarine in the Unit States
are also tine heaviest buyers OF cattle IN
the United States. refer to the three
! great firms comprising the dressed beet
monopoly Of the Uaion stoc5 yards OF
Chicago An interested people know
this trinity of dressed beer, cattle-buying
monopoliSts have thriyed and waXed fat
financially by reason of cut rates and
rebates upon railroads running to the
seaboard. One, Of them, having at
his back the Grand Trunk road of
Canada, has been enabled to slaughter
one-third of all the fat cattle ar
rlying In Chicago; the others of
the trinity are given similar advantages
| by roads leading TO the same Eastern mar
kets, but ruled by managers who believe
| In underhand and Sub-rosa rebates The
result is that these few makers of cleo
margarine and buyers Of cattle hold with
10 their iron grip this, the greatest cattle
market in the world, and are In position
10 pay the farmer for his cattle whatever
price may best please their sweet monop-
ollstc wills.
Now, in case this bill is passed these
| makers of oleomargarine will have
TO pay a tax of centsper pound on every
pound they make. How will they get
even? BY simply paying the farmer and
caitie-rslser 80 less per steer for every
steer brought to this great Union stock
yards cattle markets. market which
makes the price for all cattle markets
Throughout the Union. Mr.. Senator, will
this state of things help the farmer or
cattle producer? Most certainly not.
VIII II help the dairyman? Let US see
There Is much more neutral lard than
talloW used in this country in
the manufacture Of butter; all dairymen
use neutral lard in greater or less guam
titles In butter-making. Our finest
creamery butter receives its share of neu-
tral lard. Indeed, where one pound Of
tallow Is used in the making of butter at
least four pounds OF nc1tral lard are
used. This being the ca q, why tax the
steer? AS in plain English this bill win
do aud let the hog go free
I Oleomargarine is largely exported and
is not so generally used this country
as neutral lard. Anot thing, the
placing of this tax .upor oleomargarlne
viii not stop in the least 8 manufacture.
The tallow from the steer must be used
In some direction, and rs the great pro-
bNOllou VI petroleum IN MS country has
: caused that product to almost wholly re-
. place tallow as lubrlca'or and In other
channels the only opening left for its
use Is In the anufscture of oleo-
margarine. Even with 5cent lax
the cheapness Of tal0w would stiIlI
permit the large manufacture OF oIeo.
margarine. Nothing less than a l5.cent
tax would benefit the dalrymen In the
least, and in case a l5.Cpnt tav ,,os a.,
posed It would fall, as have shown.
upon the cattle-raiser and not upon The
maker OF oleomargarne The bill YOU
; are about to pass, In the very best light
you can place It, Is tax upon one of the
great Industries In the Wes.-cattle-
: raislng-to benefit large Eastern inter
est-the dairymen. Isitnot against com
mon honesty TO tax one great agricultural
interest In favor of one no less important,
out iathered, perhaps, aud protected by a
larger representation in the congress of
The unioni Respectfully,
S. W. ALLERToN.