The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-02-22
Adul.eration and Disease.

An article from the New York Tribaae has Ie-
Gently been goins the rounds Of the press, used
by medicine company introduction to
one Of their advertisements, calling attention TO-
and inguiring the cause of, the alarming increase
in fatal kidney complaints throughout the coun-
try. Why confine the query to kidney CON-
plants! There is proportiOnate increase in
what are termed heart diseases, in paralysis, in
insanity, and in all manner of diseases that were
not formerly so prevalent Lpok at the ailment,
rheumatism-how many we see hobJIing around,
crippled up with it, while as recently as twenty
years ago. il was not such common thing.
There has been great change # climate; our
weather, on an average, has been about the
same; therefore, it is useless look for meteor
illogical reasons for the great increase in certain
ailments
We think the problem is not difficult of solC-
tion. The people of the country are being poi.
sOned by wholesale, to satisfy the greed Of scoun-
drels in trade. The adulteration Of food is doing
the mischief The -four, the breead, the sugar
and coffee, the syrups and vinegars, the spices
and oils, are being mixed with sand, and drugs
and chalk, and alnm, and powders and decoc-
fions filed in and coOred, TO increase the weight
Of costly articles by the addition Of cheap dirt,
or wOrse, OF TO give an unnatural color to in-
ferior article, or TO swell the bulk and give ap-
parent life 10 damaged article. Aud SO the
sand aud vile dirt shOvelled into the stomach
with the sugnr; alum and chalk are stuffed in
with the bread: vile decoctions and acids are
poured down with the syrups and vinegar; dnst
piled iu with the spices; poisons are used to
give coloring to tea and coffee in short, every
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turr, in order to make him pay the price OF good
food for trash. Much of the butter is no longer
butter, and even the luxuries, whiskey and to-
hacco, are drussed and poisoned. The result
is, that every man, woman and child is poisoned
daily, in every vein, gland, pore, canal, sluice-
way, sinew, and function of the body, and is Grip
pied up in every conceivable shape. 1t is only q
matter as TO which Of the functions give out
first to determine whether the victim shall tum-
BILE over with heart disease or paralysis, lnger
with some disease of the slower organs. or 20
bent up with rheumatism
With the growth of monopoly, these evils in
crease. As the great mnnopolies force out the
small manufacturers and dealers and control
the markets, their greed for wealth leads them
10 aduteration of every conceivable kind. to in-
crease their profits When the country mill
made the -four and meal, and SIN: II establish.
ments throughout ihe country supplied their
respective articles, there was none of this adul-
terati"n, and this consequent increase of all
menis. Wholesome bread il fast becoming a
thing OF the past it is next to impossible TO get
buck kWheat Hour that will make a cake having
the faintest reminisesn-- OF buckwheat; genu-
inc molasses is no longer in the market and 30
on, through the entire catalogue Of food. Why,
even the whiskey Of the present day kills in less
than half the time the old whiskey used to.
How to stop the evil, is than We can tell.
II canDot he done by allowing great monOpolies
10 supply our wants, OF by encouraging home
manufacturers 10 initiate the methods ar the
gOOds of m"uopolies. The remedy will not come
until every community encourages the bulding
up of establishments to make everything in the
shape of food that they can make and patron
these establishments with sufficient liberal
iiY that they afford to sell their goods with
"dt mixing them with dirt and poison.