The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-17

have gathered of facts 1 have stated, and of
other kindred facts relating to poisonous
food. drink, clothing, and in articles of orna-
ment and use, all of which / shall be glad to
furnish whenever desired for publication.
wish to add, that Of dangerously adulterated
articles sold probably al. the chemists in
America have never analvzed one sample
in 10000; that in many cases pure samples of
adulterated articles are prepared expressly
| for chemical analysis, and that of all the
cases of sickness and death resulting from
these posons, probably not one case in 10000
has been traced to its real cause. We now
come to the important question,
WHAT Is THE REMEDY?
| 1t is no use to talk about total depravity.
! The fact is, that the world is growing better;
| that nine men out of 10 would rather sell
honest goods than dishonest ones, and that
| probably nine out of 10 who sell these dan
| gerously poisonous goods sell them innocent
| ly simply buying at the lowest prices and
selling what they find in the markets, and
| what their customers ignorantly demand.
! What is the remedy? 1 answer, Protective
health associations" in our cities and import
ant towns. All honest merchants who want
to sell honest goods and not be undersold by
dishonest ones should belong to them, and
members should be entitled in return for their
subscriptions to analysis of certain number
friends
Whenever such an association gets fairly
| at work in any city or town, it will become
almost impossible to sell adulterated and
poisonous articles without detection. So far
as that city or town is concerned thedemand
will cease, and dealers will require of those
from whom they buy guarantees that goods
are pure and harmless.
The purchaser who finds he has a poisonous
| Ill 4 l. "a ~
retail dealer. The retail dealer will send it
back to the wholesale dealer, and the whole
sale dealer to the man who manufactured OF
adulterated it, and demand not only his
money but full damages. And the guilty
party will be glad to pay and stop the man
ufacture or adulteration.
1t will not be necessary to prosecute one
case in a hundred, and every innocent party
will be protected, for no man will care to fghl
powerful organizations, sustained by honest
merchants and good citizens.
After a few of these associations have beer
put in operation and their results published
others will spring up, and soon have powe
enough to secure not only the enactment. bu
also the enforcement, of proper laws. Unit
they are formed / think it will be difficult t,
secure the passage of proper laws by Congress
or in the States, and still more difficult t,
properly enforce them. / know from exper
fence that laws to regulate these matters with
out organizations interested to enforce. then
will not be enforced. OF course, these anal
Uses being made on large scale, the price
should be largely reduced.
In cities chemical and microscopical bu
reaus may be organized under the direction
of eminent chemists and microscopists, il
which one will analyZe certain class o
articles, another another class, and SO on
young chemists taking charge of those easil,
analysed.
: One of the results will be Il wide demand
for chemists and microscopes. Every con
siderable town in the country will need a
least one, qualified to analyze all articles o
common use, and perhaps, to give chemica
and sanitary instruction in the schools
There Is no reason why large houses in an,
branch of trade should not have amongs
their employees one or more competent to &C
as chemists and microscopists, and then guar
; antee their articles pure.
When these things come about, poisonou
; articles of food and clothing and poisonou
wall papers and cooking utensils will vanisl
, from cur markets. Lead pipes used to con
vey, and which are corroded by, drinkin,
water will no longer be used for that pur
pose. Cess-poos and wells will be placed a
a safe distance from each other. and the result
will be exceedingly profitable, not only t
public health but also to public morals an
public honesty.
If were addressing body of clergymer
| should say that one of the most importan
; steps, in my judgment, toward a revival G
: religion, is to form associations which shal
take away from our merchants manufactur
ers and tradesmen these terribly demoralz
: ing, and, in many cases, almost irresistibl
: temptations to dishonesty and crime.
: Here then, is the remedy. .Protectiv
|, health associations in our cities and import
ant towns, and wide use Of chemical an
, microscopical analysis. The sooner thes
! things come the better for consumer, pre-
= Queer and the highest and best interests {
the Nation. Until they come, this wide an
unrestricted sale of deadly poisons in on
. markets will continue; thousands of MANI
I, facturers and merchants will be CONSTANT
4 tempted, and in many instances almost con
!, PEELED, by the competitions of trade,
y q manufacture and sell poisonous and adulters
u ted goods, and we shall be liable every da
, to poisonous articles of food and drinl
adulterated and unwholesome milk; lea
: poison in ourl water-pipes, and the dishes
: which our food is canned and cooked; arsen
u cal and other poisons in our clothing, and
the papers which cover the walls of OF
houses, and which are the playthings of OF
: children; adulterated drugs and medicine
!, and to sickness and death from hundre
! sources and in hundred forms, which can n
J more be attributed to the mysterious ways
Divine Providence than fires or other casua
! ties which result from our own carelessne
|. and neglect.
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