The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-01-15

raising the tax to the point where
there will be no profit when the
manufacture must tease
The circuit bill was brought before
the last Congress and met with the
most strenuous opposition. 1t was
laid over until the assembling of the
present Congress, when it passed by
so strong a vote that even it's most
sanguine friends we're surprised.
There were twelve votes o than
a two-thirds majority for the passage
of the bill in the lower house of Con-
gress.
Money making schemes have their
strong friends even when they pro-
duce it from so unprincipled a bust
ness as the sale of this -oleo for pure
dairy butter. These friends, for
cash, are turning every stone pos
sible to stay the passage of the CIRCUIT
bill in the United States Senate.
They have reached out and deliber-
ately misled prominent men in
trusted in other legitimate lines of
industry and had them go before
Congress and oppose this measure
for justice in the belief that it will
harm the interests represented by
themselves. Such was the fact
brought out by testimony last win
ter in regard to the effect on the cot
ton industry. It has been shown
that if all the cotton seed oil used in
the manufacture of cleo were lost
thrown AWAIT would amount to
but one cent for each bale Of cotton
produced! But it need not be wasted.
1t could be put to a mOr c~reditable
use than helping to deceive millions
of consumers and Gripping other
millions of honest producers, in Or
der to continue to amass a few col
lossal fortunes in unprincipled hands.
The circuit bill is now before the
Senate of the United States. 1t will
be assaulted by every device which
the most fertile brains can devise for
the richest fees to secure Senatorial
votes enough to defeat the measure,
or failing in this, to enable those in
opposition to outgeneral the friends
of the measure and defeat the bill,
which promises to check this colossal
fraud.
The question is now in the hands
of our Senators, whom we respect
and honor and to whom we look for
cool and deliberate justice to be
melted out in the passage of this
measure. This will be n Of the
most notable steps enacted against
enormously profitable interests on a
gigantic scale in the interest of pure
food for the people.
To some it may not matter what
other people have for food, if them
selves are we'll served but the mat
ter of authorizations have now gone
so far that few people can know for
themselves that they T using pure
food in many of the articles they
necessarily must purchase.
But we started out to ask a ques-
ton. What do you farmer reader
of this paper wish in regard to this
CIRCUIT bill?
If you will take the pains to an
swer this review and inquiry briefly,
it will make a very interesting re
ply. A of opinion on a
great public question like this, just
before it comes up for final action in
one of the greatest parliamentary
bodies of the world will be not only
Of interest, but will give our delega-
ton in Congress a hint as to the
position of their constituents or
other matters of great concern tc
the body polite.
Do you favor the passage of the
CIRCUIT bill and honest dealing? Or
are you opposed to interference with
business of any kind which pays we'll
enough to secure it's powerful
friends? Let us have a postal card
from all readers on this topic.
F. E. E.
AN ORIECT LESSON