Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-07-13
The STUFF WE EAT.

Congress on - me -tuuefFAdOt " TOott-
Too much cannot be said on the
Authorization Ofwhat We eat in these
high priced times, when if ever we
should have just what we buy.
A new article Of butter and cheese
has recently made its appearance in
Western markets, containing from 90
to 75 per cent, of hogs lard The
Chicago Tribune of November, Il, 1880,
states that Is factories in that city are
now engaged in its manufacture, and
that one article used in making the
cheese will eat through the oak barrels
in which it is kept. Concerning its eff
feet on the human stomach, L have
thus far, no evidence.
How can those of us who prefer to eat
butter and cheese made from the milk
of the cow be protected against oleo
margarine?
Require every seller of that article to
keepa sign on his stall or store, "Oleo-
margarine products sold here" and to
put on every firkin, box, package, and
cheese the word "OleOmargarine."
would go further, and require every
hotel, restaurant and boarding-hnuse
Keeper 10 stamp or label every limp of
this article he puts on his tables "Oleo-
margarine" Then Get honest health
officers frequently ascertain what fats
these factories are using, and keep hon
est chemists at work Analysing and re-
porting results in the papers, with
names of manufacturers.
1t may be said that there are not
enough honest chemists in the country
who are not already in the pay of one
or more of these great corporations.
Then offer inducements to trained
chemists in Germany and other cOun-
tries to come here, and at once take
measures to increase the number Of stu
dents in our schools of chemistry. We
can better afford to pay higher prizes
than are usually paid in Germany and
other countries. We can better afford
to pay very high prices than to have
our markets filed with poisonous and
dangerously adulterated foods.
The Power of Glucose ana OleOmarga-
rine.
That we may rightly understand the
power which those who attack these ar
ticleS have to encounter, | think it
proper to say that their manufacturers,
by simply adding one cent pound to
the price of their products, can raise
annually fighting fund of probably
not less than 5000, OOO-enOugh proba-
bly, to pay an annual salary of $4,000
each To every prominent chemist in the
country who can be enlisted in their be-
half, and then have more than $1,000
geo per annum left to be used in other
ways. Ii is u gigantic power, able to
retain chemists and health OIL
GERS and some portion of the
public press, and make it exceedingly
uncomfortable for those who attack it,.
But there is greater power, namely,
the American people, who are every
day liable TO eat these products.
| hold in my hand pamphlet just
printed in New York City, evidently
TO be put before Congress, in which |
am assured that Glucose is harmless.
You will doubtless be assured, in ways
and by means | cannot anticipate, that
all these articles are harmless; but 50
long as men are willing to get rich by
sacrificing the health of their fellows.
and can get rich faster by using, at
times and places where discovery seems
improbable, poisonous and dangerous
articles so long shall we have the same
state of things here which existed in
England when Tennyson wrote: "The
spirit of murder turks inthe very means
of life"
Ifthe power of dishonest, combined
capital has become So omnipotent that
these great crimes cannot be stopped
here, as they have been to great eX-
tent in England, and the people of this
country cannot be protected, then re-
publican government is failure.