Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-04-12

tQuWp N ~ 1ts poSteulouS ugo4oue<Ss
the baker stints the loaf which you get
ffoan him twice and thrice day:: the
paresf Of sniilr mast mske aequsintasee
with The pump In spite Of iaelemeser
and law, and The petty frasds which
the grocer and. the butcher practice IN
theis dealings with you are numberlsss
6the ssads which they fut ID the So
S1fs Urvt5U ossces WHICH thsy thky
pjecAe e6 from ths JOINT ,There - .
yAole, ala1e, ,yeeapYlpry pf decayea Ard
Impure mesh fhst are sold 10 those Who
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ASDffnzp pthlc&k tSszaissAee8a1pie ielb,f
hishsal Aes1asssrine hssi'.orsoAssnA
iNesthsy his gs,tsos, g yheef Be ..cpsed. !,
blown" plated. )" raised " STUFF
ed" or an article which even te,e sani-
tary inspector Of the Board of Reslth
could be. induced 70. .eats
In New York, in 1872, in some test
examinations ofartieles Of food, the sa-
gar was found to bs clayed. the saiera-
tus and mustard Toured, the cream Of
tartar was nearly all terra alba; in con-
dictionary, the adulterating articles
were clay. gypsum. starch, lampblack,
classed as .shasinless." and cobalts, ar
senics and chromes, .'deleterious." yEs.
sences were nearly all found 10 be arti.
fetal and usually made Of poisonous
ethers. Alum and snlphate Of copper
we're employed in sophisticating bread,
and Of thirtyspecimens OF spices exam-
ined not one was found pure. Almond
essences are prussic acid, and strawb ber-
~, raspberry, banana and other syfups
anixtarc I Of botyfic ether and sugar,
with other compounds equally injuriou.
to the economy. ser aus--. ,tf,...,-
Herbert Spencer, in his "Aforal Es-
says" says: "On the average, tnea
who Deal in bales and tens dsaer but
little from men who deal in yards end
pounds. Illicit practices of every form
and shade, from venial deceptions up TO
all but direct theft. may be brought
home to the higher grades of our com
mercial world. Tricks innumerable.
lies acted or uttered, elaborately devised
frauds, are prevalent, many Of them es-
tablished as customs Of the trade; not
only established. but defended"
la manufacturing. clay and starch are
freely used to give "body" to muslin;
iron filings and gum TO silks; shoddy TO
full out the substance Of woolens: prize
packages and bogus jewelrv are rcgu-
larly made by large establishments for
the encouragement Of deception and
fraud: the counterfeit label and the de-
ceptive-sized package run through all
trades, from the spoo! OF cotton and the
cone bottomed bottle up to the house
made for sale at auction. "Doctored'
teas, cofees made of everything but
coffee. are regular articles Of trade and
regularly bought of the large dealers
by retailers for the supply Of consum-
ers. or
There are a million baskets Of cham
pagne sold in this country-the whole
product of the champagne district be.
ing only Se0. 600 baskets, OF which Rus
sia takes 1000, Germany 10000,
England 200, 900. while France retains
100, 900 for its own use. England uses
81, 900 pipes Of port wine, in spite oi
the fact that the entire export Of Opor-
to does not exceed 10000 pipes. There
are 800 firms in the United States whose
sole occupation is the adulteration OF
wines and liquors, and the substances
used in adulterating comprise the v,lest
compounds in the pharmacopeia-fusel
oil, turpentine, vitriol, nitric ether, prus-
sic acid, strychnine. chloroform, Guinea
pepper, tannin, cocculus indicus, worm
wood, caiamus, alum, nux-vcmica, ar
gols. orris. cider, yeast, Sc, sc.
Is there no remedy Tor this wreiched
system Of fraud and deception, which
has now become so unircr>ai that il
really profits nobody' Mr.. David A.
Wells says all this soft of thing will dis
appear As soon as men agree in COM
mon simply TO ''tell the truth and ful.
fill theit promises" But how NAV
men be got up to TINS divine pass. The
people must be educated up to it: there
is no other way, and the first lesson OF
the day is to teach every one that fraud
and aduiteration are only the corrcla.
tives Of the undue pursuit Of cheapness
As Ruskins says: Remember this is
simply and literally what we do, when.
ever we buy, or try to buy, cheap goods,
goods offered at price which we know
cannot be remunerative FOR the labor in.
voIved in them: whenever we buy such
goods, remember we are stealing some.
body's labor. Don't let US m;nce the
matter. ! say, in plain Saxon stealing
taking from him the proper reward Of
his work, and. putting it INTO our own
pockets"