The Forrest City times., 1888-02-04
COTTON SEED OIL.
Protests Against the Dawes Bill now
 Before Congress,


 The board of trade had a large meet ing yesterday at 70 o'clock, at which
 Dawes senate bill' to suppress cotton
 seed oil as a food WIS thoroughly dis cussef. and resolutions were passed disapproying and e0ndeIuning all such leeisiation by congress. The resolu-
 tlons which follow. offered by Mir. K.
 E. Douglass and seconded by Col G r.
 bducum, speak plainly the sentiment.
 not alone of the members of the board or trade. but all classes who believe in
 equal and exact justice to all men" in affairs of government, and were unani- m0usy adopted:
 Wheaeas A bill has been introduced i lnlo the senate of the United States.
 No. 630, known as the Dawes Bill, n and
 Whereas. The object of the said bill is to suppress cotton seed oil in it's use
 as a substitute for hog lard. notNith- standing the fact that under it's pr0- visions gut fat, oifals, and even dead
 hogs may be melted in the hard tank
 and sold as pare lard, aud
 Whereas, The pure and wholesome
 vegetable oil of the south. used in con neetion with pure lard and beef fats, makes in the opinion of this board, a good Derchania5le lard. and
 Whereas The same bill by laying onerou5 taxes, seeks 10 put au end t0 such employment of cotton seed oil,
 thus enormously decreasing the de- mard for the seed. and
 Whereas. The cotton seed eil mills are the malu industry in the south,
 tf.a if not quite, ten millions of dollars an- nunlly, and
 Whereas, The passage Of the said bill will paralyze, if aot entirely de- str0y, this useful industry; Therefore
 be 1t
 Resolved. By the board oJ trade of
 itself and the cotton seed/produeers.
 first, that said bill is yicio,/ in princi- pie, illogical and Uttgily/ndefeusible; it's inevitable effect wiifle to strike down the only exelasiveE southern in- producers revenue, &d hgt up tlls price of lard, thus adding gahother bur den l0 tue poor.
 Resolved, 2d. That Ge3rge William Carruth, Esquire, be requested to pre- sent this resolution and pfptest to the senate committee on agriculture and i'll the name of the merchants aud plant CTS Of AfAansas oppose the passage of said bill.
 Resolved, 3d, That Senator James K. Jones, q member of that committee. be furnished by the secretary with a certified copy of the5e pr0ceedihgs. The effort to discriminate arainst lard Co which cotton seed oil has been added is another movement iu behalf of that paternalism in government which many people appear to think is' all right If accompanied by a gift of
 money. Both lard and cotton seed oil are wholesome, though the latter is the plrer product of the two. This no one will deuy. But their mixture produces an article that can De sold cheaper than lard. Just here pate.Aalisin and the protective system step in and de- mani that the government slail 80 tax the mixed product that it cannot be sold cheaper than lard. It is demand that one industry shall be discrlmluatcd against in favor os another industry, and that the people shall pay mere for an article than lt IS worth m order to protect one industry against legitimate competition. This was the object Of i the oleamGrgarine legislation, and the
 Dawes bill to tax the lard a:,d cotton seed oil mixture Is practically copy
 of the oleomargariae law.
 Tie introduction 0f the Dawes bill | illustrates the force of precedent. Sena- l tor Dawes can claim that lis bill is ln line with the oleomargarine legisa- 1 ton: and this is true He eau also show conelusively that 1t is but another legitimate extension of the protective system, whose practical operations foster monopoly and extort money from the people; and this IS true. He can show that if 1t be cor rect to build up one industry at the expense of another, it is not incorrect 1 to so act whenever action may be de- i handed: and this is true. He can quote line upon line and precedent upon precedent, in support of such measures, and he can show that the statutes are filled with class legisla-
 ton of the kind.
 The question is. how long the people intend to stand this unvarranted inter ference with the business of the country. Gazette.
 The following article on the injustice of taxing cotton seed oil. most whole some article of food, is from the New York World of the 27ih ut: The senate committee on agrIeul- tnre is giving hearings to individuals interested, pro and con, in the proposed law against the adulteratioG of lard. The advocates of the measure are en- deavoring to induce congress to repeat it's error of last year in laying heavy