The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-05-08
The Compound Lard Bill.
ITS INCONSISTENCY AND
SECTIONAL OBJECT.
1t Would Ruin One o. the South's
Great Industries to the Profit
of the Northern and West
ern Pork Packer.
A QUESTION OF VITAL IMPORTANCE
NOT ONLY T0S0UTHERN FINANCE
AND PROSPERITY, BUT TO
HOUSEKEEPERS AND The
NATIONS STOMACH.
II WILL ROB THE SOUTH OF
$I5, 100000 ANNUALLY.


Every week, We might say
every day for the last quarter of
century, somebody has been
haunting the lobby of Congress
and clamoring before the vari-
Gus committees asking for spe-
cial legislation for some private
enterprise. In short they have
had the cheek and audacity to
ask Congress to pass q law or
laws to damage and rob one in
dustry or class of people, for no
other reason than that they
would profit by the proceeding.
We could mention hundreds of
such Infamous bills that have
become and are still laws and in
no small degree are they respon-
sible for the depressed condition
Of Agriculture to-day, for a large
majority of such measures have
been directed against the farmer
and have bled him without mer-
cy. For d long time the patient,
patriotic and hard labOring far
mer has borne these impositions
and robberies, not knowing what
was the ma tier, and believing
that the government was doing
its duty and protecting his in
terests. But at last he has
awakened to the sad reality and
is shocked and righteously in
dignant that his government has
been a party to, has winked at
and legalized (?) these robberies.
He is watching the doings of
Congress with an eagles eye and
the wrong doers will soon hear
Of his wrath through the ballot
box. One of the most Infamous
bills of this kind recently at
tempted by Congress, is the Com
: pound Lard Bill. We have been
requested to publish this bill,
but instead ION account of its
T. length we give below the gist
of the minority report of the
committee on Agriculture, by
} Hon. G. w. McClammy, of ou,
l own district and Hon. J. B. Nor
gan, of Mississippi, which fully
explains the Infamous nature of
: this bill and shows how it is de.
= signed to further rob the South
ern farmer. Read it and see q
fair sample Of the hellisl
I schemes of the monopolist
f which he has been, and is tryins
t to carry into execution through
S the Radical members of Con
e gress:
) The bill reported by tn,
t majority of the committee is, d
:. described aud classified accord
) ing 10 it's features:
e I ~ A bill to increase th'
:. revenues of the Government b,
It an additional revenue tax.
S (2) a bill defining "lard,
n and by tho imposition of al
r, internal-revenue tax, regulatin,
=. the manufacture, sale, importa
f. ton, and expectation of "com
q pound lard" meaning thereb,
d 'sany article manufactured o.
e compounded in imitation Q
l. semblance of lard x whic-
n shall be made of any othe
e Ingredient other than lard, Q
1t which shall be composed G
;e any ether Ingredient or ingre
g dients in combination with lard.
% Digesting the main feature
le of the bill as affecting th
rs manufacturer, wholesale deale
m and retail dealer, it provides:
er 1) The manufacturer Of con
er p,und lard must procure
ID license, which shall be at tt
Ut rate OF 800 per annum. but /
~ shall be entitled to such licen:
u only "if none Of the ingredien
Il to be used in the manufactul
are deleterious to health
ne section 3, lines 5, 8. 19, 20, 2:
Id a question for the decision (
re, the Commissioner of Intern
rs. Revenue. He shall also give
en- bond. (Secticn 6, lines 10-1t
or (2) Each wholesale dealer, e
We cept he be also a manufacture
on shall pay a special tax Of 8
ne per anuum (sectioD 4, lines f.
ne. and shall sell in quantities n
u less than so pounds, and on
in original stamped packasg,