The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-01-01
COTTON SEED OIL COMPANIES
AND GIN COMPANIES.

Weekly and the Monthly, but wish
to suggest subject or two which
you in your publications, have not
advocated to the present.
One of these is this:
Sooner or later this State will be
compelled to follow Texas relative
to the Cotton Seed Oil Companies, in
that, it will be compelled to pass
laws prohibiting any Cotton Seed Oil
Company from owning any interest
whatsoever in any gin or ginning
outfit. How much the farmers in
this State are suffering from this
institution is almost unreasonable
in dollars. II you will investigate
you will find that the cotton seed
business is almost ~swamped' by the
Cotton Seed Oil Trust on account of
their owning the gins all over the
country. AS indicated Texas has
recently passed a law by which the
Cotton Seed Oil Companies are
strictly prohibited from owning any
interest in the gins of that State.
Just how this matter is controlled
is in two ways to-wit: The Oil Co.,
running a gin will leave SO much
lint on the seed knowing that they
will remove them to the oil plant
and 1e-shear them and consequently
make a vast amount of the bales of
cotton out of the farmers which
should go to the farmers.
In another way, to-wit: The Oil
Co., owning the gin will weigh in
load of cotton in the seed, say, 1900,
or 1900, or 1,400 pounds at LOO,
1900, and 1900 respectively. In
this way you see they get the farmer
for 100 pounds of seed to the bale.
do not believe I overstate the mat
ter when I say that this is not an
unreasonable amount that the Oil
Co. is making out Of every farmer
who acrries bale of cotton to one
Of these gins owned by the Cotton
Seed Oil Trust.
Again, and another thing which
think ought to be put into law in
this State is an insurance business.
The State Of Georgia could issue
even an 100000 dollars of bonds
and establish for the people Of this
State an insurance company which
would or could furnish the insurance
so much cheaper than is now being
furnished them and the fake insur-
ance that is robbing this State and
the whole South of vast thousands
Of dollars annually would be saved
to the people of the State. At the
same time it would save in another
way vast thousands of dollars which
the people Of this State are sending
to the North and allowing a few fat
rascals to use and to furnish them a
means by which the money trust is
kept intact.
There would be brought down on
your head great deal of .censure if
you were to touch even on these two
items and ask your State legislators
to put it or either of them into
statute law
But through these two measures
Georgia would save to the people of
the State untold millions of dollars
of which they are today being
robbed. 1-12 Of the bales of cotton
today produced, are linters.
l hope to see you some Of these
days take up these two questions
fayorabIy in the line l have sug-
gested and begin an advocacy Of
them for an enactment into law. |
believe that when you consider them
as they should be considered you will
see them as | do.
What think you of these two
propositions?
Well, we are getting the parcels
post along in the right direction at
last, after 20 or more years of dis
Cussion and agitation We have it up
to 20 hounds with a COnSid cradle