Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1902-05-02

on correspondent
efforts Of Hon.
Is to defeat it:
THE 1fEARURE.
line in the political
country it is attemp-
tIon to build mp a
inestic industry by
trucuon Of another
innate and honest in
en- the enemies Of ole
concedc that it is a
Jod product and that its
re is a Legitimate Indus
they say, it is made in
Of butter, it is sold for
sale should be suppress
the power Of the national
.ent. IL is adm ted that
cnt Of all the butter sold on
srican market is colored in
III Of pure butter Because
Jlored IT commands a higher
It's sale as coIored butter is
nd and a lie. It would seem
eighth Of Impudence for one
d to complain Of another, but
ten years the dairy interests
d butter manufacturers have
zen knocking at the doors Of con
gress and demanding that the man-
ufacture and sale Of oleomargarne
be stamped ont Of existence. That
they have so far NOT succeeded is
due principally to the stand taken
in the very beginning Of this agita-
ton by Hon. James w. Wads-
worth Of New York, chairman Of
the co .lmittee of agriculture in the
House, and Hon. John Sharp Will
lams of Mississippi. Mr.. Wads-
worth Is the owner Of large crea-
merry and a dealer in butter. He
is IN politics Republican, but
with love Of justice which is very
rare among statesmen, and with an
unselfshness, which is still rarer,
he has fought this pernicious leg
islation at every step. He has
done so at a great sacrifice.
THE OPPOSING CHAMPIONS.
Senator Proctor of Vermont, who
is leading the forces in the senate
in favor of this legislation, is per-
haps the largest individual owner
of creamery in the United States,
and he sees no improperly in rob
bling the cattle growers, cotton
planters. cotton seed oil men and |
manufacturers of oleomargarine of
millions of dollars in order to line
his own pockets.
Mr.. Williams constituency is
composed largely of cotton plant
ers, and cotton seed oil is large
and hourishing industry in his
district and State. For ten years
it is no eXaggeration to say that to
the efforts of Mr.. Wadsworth, and
especially to those of Mr., Williams
is due the fact that there has been
no anti. 0leomargarlne legislation.
Persistent effarts have been made
congress after congress TO pass the
bill. So far Mr.. Williams and his
colleagues on the committee have
succeeded in defeating it. At the
present session of congress Mr..
Williams, by an adroit parliament
tary move, secured four days de-
bate on the oleomargarine till.
He then mustered ali the forces of
the opposition and marched to the
attack of this infamous measure.
The hollownesS and fraud of the
measure were unmasked in all their
hideous enOrmity; the infamy of
its demands was laid bare; its alb !
surdities were exposed, and it
narrowly escaped defeat, even in
house. Had like opportunity
been offered in the earlier stages
of tins attempted legislation it
would long ago have been disas-
hously defeated.
This debate, moreover, was a
revelation TO the house. In it the
house of representatives seems to
have recovered its consciousness i
aud to realize what Mr.. Williams
has SO often asserted and indig-
nantly maintained, that vixen the
house adopted the Reed rules it
suicide. I
RACK IN THE HOUSE.
The bill has been sent back now