El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-27
SQUARE DEAL IS
ASKE,DFOR OLEO.
President Seed Crushers'
Association Says Tax 3;
Should be Repealed.

Oleomargarine is as pure as butter
and the tax which Is placed on this
product should be removed, B W.
Couch, president of the Texas Cotton
Seed CrCshers' association, told the
! American National Livestock conven-
ton Thursday. He urged a resolution
asking congress TO repeal this federal
tax and give oleo a square deal
He said in part;
For the cotton seed oil millers OF
the south, whom I have the honor to
represent. I would have II especially
understood that in asking the passage
by you of the resolutions in reference
to the repeal of the tax on Oleomar-
garine, which I am assured will be
here presented, and in demanding the
repeal of the present burdensome and
unfair laws governing the manufac-
ture and sale of OleOmargarine. We are
asking neither of you or of congress
any favOrs or special privileges either
for themselves or the products they
OIeo. Is Pure.
'For. in the face of the most rigid
scientific Investigation and the most
persistent efforts OF the advocates of
the law to prove the contrary. there
has been established beyond all con-
troversy the entire healthfuIness and
highly nutritive quality of oleomargar-
inc. named the poor mans butter And
why should 1t not be both healthful
and nutritious, since it is composed en-
tirely OF pure beef tallow, the oil of
grade OF pure butter The product,
only in order that ii may present a
more pleasing and appetiZing appear
ance, being cOlOred in exactly the same
way. and with the same material, that
is used in coloring the best and highest
priced butter. Butter is not only un-
taxed and free from all federal inspec-
ton, but sold at price from two to
five times that of its humble but pure
and wholesome competitor.
Dairy Fond
But would again repeat that the |
cotton oil mill man has no war to make |
upon the dairy COW or upon any pro-
duct Of hers, but on the contrary, being |
himself in the manufacture and pro-
ductiOn Of cotton seed meal and cotton
seed hulls, is the manufacturer of the 1
pest dairy, iced on earth and. there
fore, closely allied with the dairynan ,
as he is with the raiser of every kind I
OF livestock; interested in his welfare /
and anxious for his prosperity and 1
ready and willing to contribute to it
Cotton seed flour is now on the mar
ket as a rival for wheat flour 4 |
specimen Of what cotton seed flour
shown Wednesday afternoon by Mr..
Couch.
Cotton Seed High.
Catuemen complain that cotton seed
5 becoming so high they cannot feed |
heir stock with It" said Mr. Couch. !
The truth Of the matter is that cotton /
iced and its Oi-prOducts are entering !
70 largely into human foods that a time I
5 not far distant when the oils and |
he meals viii be reserved for the hu-
nan food market almost exclusively.
As it now stands the oil is the basis
4 oleOm1rgarine; while the flour can !
De produced so much cheaper than 1
Fheat flour that people will use it first |
rom economy and then from prefer !
nee Cotton seed flour may be pro-
uced for market for as low as 81 the !
% pounds, while wheat flour is 81
er cWt-
L am not personally interested in
ny mills producing the flour said |
IT. Couch, -other than to watch the |
esults- So far Texas and the south
as but one mill where the cotton seed
lcur is produced and that is at Schu-
enberg, Tex There the output is %
arrels day"