The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-26
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Ahe San Francisco Press Agitatjur
the Subject OF Impure Baking
POWDERS, the Evil IN Radical

From Saa Francisco Daily Call.
Tee frighlful aud dangerous sdutera,ion
pracsiecd BY baking powder manufacturers
ID exciting an increased and widespread
sIarm amoug consumers. The evil has at.
t4ined greater dimensions than the most ex-
treme aisrnists could have imagined.
In a city ike Now York goyernmen,
chemist makes an snalyti examination
and uiseloses the iact that the very large
proportion of powders sold there are maze
OF alum. The action of alum On the human
stomach is precisely the same
as on the mouth; it draws and
FUCKERS it all up, producing
all sorts ofunplesssnt and dangerous llsor.
ders Ia Germany, En- land and France.
any one tou manufacturing or selling alum
powders Is subject 10 heavy fne and in
prisohment but In this state of California
may be found hundreds OF brands made of
this poisonous chemical. Pure baking low.
ders should be made of grape creA m tartar.
which COSTS from thirty To forty five cents
per pou d. Many irresponsible and reek
less manufacturers msk. this important 40.
nestle article from alum, which costs but
three cents per pound. The Royal Baking
Powder company Of New York, a wealthy
and honorable corporation, the larges. con-
sumers OF grape cream tartar in the
world, in their efforts 10
introduce their goods on this market were
confronted by az army of alum powders,
which were sappiDg and undermining the
health OF this community. Ii the average
citizen were told that his oft repeated attack
OF dyspepsia. constipation, heartburn, etc
arose from using an impure and poisonous
baking p,wder, he would probably psss it
BY rs All Idle, sensational assertion; vet such
is the fact
Did any one Of our lady readers, in her
purchases of domestic supplies, ever notice
that her grocer had nearly always branu Of
powders put up under his own name?
Ii she bad an anal .sis from competent
chemist, it would tell her that in pearly
every case she was being offered poison in lis
most dangerous and suotle form; not poison
that quickly kiils-ior the dose is not large
enough-but poison that will slowly and
surely undermine the health of her little
ones, The question arises, why do grocers
have their powders put up under their own
name, instead OF having some well
known, pure and reliable brand of powder?
IL is simply because their profits is larger
this way. Their powder is made of alum, ut
one eight the cost of cream tartsr powder,
and they are enabled TO sell it in com petition
with an honest article like the ROYAL baking
powder, and make an enormous prof.
Nearly all the powders sold by the grocery
me ofthis city, under their own name, are
nude by prominent manufacturers here. and
arc composed of alum, aud the only safe
guard housewife has is TO buy IN honest
,cream-tsr,ar powder, made BY some respon.
sble manufacturer.
A series of researches in San francisco, on
the part of Professor Hanks, the state
chemist, shows that out of tea different
private corner-grocery brands, select, d a,
random, every one contained alum or other
impurities, and eight were short weight,
some of them thiry-Gve per cent. Tie
names Of these powders are not here given,
for it is scarcely believed that the groce
were aware of what they vera buyin and
having put up under their own pames, but
the samples and reports IRE in the possession
of MIR. Hanks.
We make the suggestion to every reader
of this aper TO consider whether the pitiful
saving arising from the purchase of che !,
baking powder compensates for the los Of
health incurred. After the repeated VA
ings of science, any mother VINO c, iues
the use of these poisonous compor e, does
so with fearful penalty hsngD. yer her
head. Go ask your doctor if alum baking
powders are dangerous, and DO guided by hi,
advice.
In the east, where this subject is exciting
great in,o est, DR.. Halls journal of Health
ss, ?, in recent issue:
"Beiore committing ourselves, however
we made tests of a sufficient number of bsk
ing powders to satisfy ourselves that tn,
substitution Of alum for cream of tartar II
their composition has not been everest,
mated, while careful examination of ibt
Royal baking powder confirms our belle
tina, Dr. Mott, the government chemist
when he singled cut ard recommended thi
powder for ils who esomeness, did it who'll.
in the interest of the public. We do no
hesitate 10 say that the Royal baking pow
der people deserve the gratitude Of The com
munity whom they IRE endeavoring |,
protect"