The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-12-18

Cotton Oil and
Cotton Oil Products
'peech OF Hon. d. A. Tompkins, of
Charlotte, n. c., Delivered at New
Orleans.)

(~peerh OF Hon. d. A. Tompllins, of
Charlotte, n. c., Delivered at New
Orleans)
The deVelopment of the production
o. cotton 10 the extent of ten million
bales per year is a wonderful result
and none but the most enternrisno
and capable people could ever have
brought II about. In the face of this
fact, however, it has been for homo
time 4" sort OF fashion to charge
against people of the South a want
Of enterprise and energy. In MANY
eases the credit for the very works
which the South is doing is claimed
by the people of some other section,
and the Aea is put forth that alien
money or alien talent is necessary for
the success of proposed enterprise.
"Nhlle no one has been more earn
est III inviting capital to the South
for profitable Investment and talent
for profitable employment, because of
the ample room and opportunity for
both, Vet for the best interests of our
home people and their children here
after, IT is not desirable for these to
TtHnQmsh to others the foremost po-
sltIons Of the best opportunities.
The cotton oil industry is one
which has been developed to all prac-
teal purposes, exclusively in the
South. and extensively by Southern
people. 1t is an industry in which the
energy and enterprise of our home
people IS made manifest whenever
>eLt-reliance is one of the elements in
the proposition. \ people with less
>eIt-reIlance and less steadiness OF
purpose could never have rescued civ
llizatlon from the dangers that con-
tronted 1t fCr quarter of q century,
after the civil war. In the production
OF the best and cheapest raw material
for clothing and in such enormous
quantities and also in the deyelopment
Of such splendid industry in pro-
ducing good products out. of cotton
seed the demonstration of the won
deTrui originality and capability of
the people of the South has been made
perfect
For long time these qualities OF
our people were hampered and dwarf
ed by the institution Of slavery and
ITS results. The weight of this bur-
oenSOme Influence has now about
passed away. and contemporaneou
with this passage the white population
of the South being free to engage in
industrial enterprises bring forth re-
suits that astonish humanity. Among
these results is an industry founded
upon the crushing of cotton seed for
OIL meal, hulls and lint and other
Industries like refining the oil. MAX
ng stock TODD out of the hulls and
meal, feeding cattle for beef andt
aalIT purposes, making soap, making
fertilizers with meal for an ammOni-
ate and various others
For the last thirty years the poll
teal condition Of the South has not
been favorable to development and
Improvement. The civil war swept
away the institution of slavery and
al the same time swept away the
wealth of the South. But the civil
war did not keep the South poor for
thirty years. The subsequent long
continued disaster was due to an at
'rmpt TO legislate a social condition
that was impossible. and it was this
experiment. that kept the white man
"f the South intensely employed in
resisting wave of semi-anarchy that
Tor generation threatened Anglo
saxon civilization. In that time every
White man has been compelled to
make a living for his family with one
hand while he held the other ever
armed and ready for it's defense. In
mus time and in this condition YOU
and Your people have exhibited the
highest development in government
and IN standing together for civiliza
Ton. Without leader. YOU have
stood together as a unit until you
have accomplished the success of
white rule. Even Republican admin
~'Tatlcn has come to agree with you.
n@a in the Philippines, Cuba and
fortO Rico it is carryinoe out our
policy of having the white man TO
govern under the name Of Anglo
Saxon.
r seems annoying that peope who
are as intelligent as the Americans
VIII listen TO a story about cotton oil
.> an 'adulterant' from those who
nave no motive in The interest Of pure
rood in their sections. The cotton oil
is pure, healthful and perfectly
""an vegetable oil. In a pure food
,HHHetition il would stand first on the
r~' al all times. Yet we are con-
"JatIE having some scheme sprung
W 10 handicap cotton oil as a food /
.I In order TO protect many impure
N InhealthfuI cooking preaSeS, and
SNOW that nobody would welcome |
pure food bill more than the cotton |
VII people. and nobody would abhOr |
4' 'lSo Of a pure food sentiment to
''Iu"tr impure StIffs more than the |
ZION oil people.
he country cannot furnish mar |
'- Tor our products. Our markets |
w already extended to- Italy, France, |
".2hd. Spain and every other count |
BID which oil is used as edible or |
'@|h@ @r"ases. Vet past populations |
." nothing of the merits Of our |
r'..0cts. The older countries are |
"o% enough to take our products, |
/ ''( and rcdistributc them. Why |
uF2" our government to promote |
r. us the development Of these alter |
! t markets for cur own use? |
| -'"'IE advise that we insist that |
representatives. III our State Leg t