The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-01-15

1cTS the loss IN fcfcUUc VI CAoSuy NV
barrels of liquor, which have taken thu
place of the five barrels that are yet II
the bonded warehouse, and which oush
to have been taken out and allowed tt
take the place of the spurious and adul-
terated stuff. such as never ought to bt
allowed to exist. much less permitted tC
be sold.
Many may and no doubt do argue. thai
such adulteratiOn is harmless and much
less injurious than the genuine and pure
article. If this was true. then the argu-
ment that any adulteration in our food
and drink product was better than the
pure aud unauthorized article would also
be true. We do not believe the rule to be
good one. A substitute for any of OuI
food or drink products is infinitely worse
than the original article. There is nc
such thing as making apure article purel
and it surely cannot be done by substi-
tuting something else in its place. Al
this day and age this is quite a popular
thing to do. 1t is not only popular
thing to do but profitable one rs well,
and should this method of adulteratiOn
be continued it would not be long before
distilleries and breweries could be dis
pensed with altogether and the brewers
of beer and the distillers of whisEey
would have to join the brotherhood OF
adulterators and soul-destrOyers of this
nation or go ont of business. These
avowed enemies of temperance bring
about all the pernicious effects that re-
suit from the use of this vile and abOm-
Unable stuff they are allowed to foist upon
the people; all this they do under per-
mits granted them by national, state or
municipal governments. legalizing their
illegal acts, granting them permission to
poison the human family, destroy life
and property and with it create nation
of drunkards and inebriates.
Nearly every city of any considerable
size or importance on the habitable globe
possesses some designated place within
its borders where the food products may
be brought and exposed for sale; as a
rule inspectors are designated who have
charge of these places, with authority to
critically examine any or all feod prod
ucts that may be brought there for sale,
and should any food product be found
that in his judgment is unfit for food, he
would order it to be taken away and de-
stroyed. The party so offending would
doubtless be arrested and heavily fined
and perhaps thrown into prison for offer
ing and exposing to sale that which was
deemed unwhOlesOme as food for the
people. To reverse the scene, 90 to any
city in all this broad land and visit the
saloons; compare the system of ihspec-
ton over the drink product there en-
ployed, and see what check or restraint
there is being exercised over them as
with the market-house inspec-
ton. ''Why," you will say at once,
''there is nOne." They want none; they
are satisfied without it; they sell what
they please and ask for no inspection;
their business, they claim, thrives better
without it. They are not required to sell
pure wines and liquors by any law We
know of and why should they do so when
they can make twice the money by SELL
ing the impure and adulterated stuff,
with permission to do all their own adul-
terating. They do it. No one has ever
questioned their right to do so, so far as
we know. Yet are they not doing quite
the reverse of what our food producers
are required by law to do? They are re-
quired to give us pure and wholesome
food. Do we get pure and wholesome
drink? You answer at once and say no
The law grants them no special privilege,
then why recognize in them a right or
privilege that the laws of our land do
not give them, and allow them to sell
that which is impure and absolutely per-
nicious and hurtfui? All this is being
done by persons who raise the hue and
cry of sumptuary legislation, making an
outcry against legislation that does not
appear to affect them in the least, but
they seem to entertain the belief that it is
against their personal liberties, when in
fact the laws have been quite the reverse.
We say, against the people, who are daily |
and imposed upon by the very
who recognize no law that
would in any way interfere with their |
business. Their business permits a re-
and in the present form de-
mands the strongest that can be enacted |
BY the national, state or municipal gov
under which they may do busi-
ness. 1t ought to be the most stringent
that ever graced the pages Of statute
book. In the passage Of federal law
prohibiting the adulteration of our
food and drink product, no rights are
taken from the people of a state that are
not equally as beneficial to the people of
all the states. Then why not have gen.
eral law enacted to govern in the ease?
A simple amendment to our present fed
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