Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-09-02
A MILLION A YEAR.
LOTTERY AND PRIZE sCnEMEs USED
10 SELL ALUM AND AMMOSIA
BAKING POWDERS.

A New York concern, manufacture
cr- Of an ammonia baking powder,
boasts that its yearly profits are over
million dollars. While, PERHAPS, mono
OF the makers Of alum powders indiyid.
uslly can show ~ large earnings, yet
their profits arc enormous.
A business ~ profitable will always
attract Ia itself those whose greed Will
cause them TO utterly disregard the 81.
feet their traffic may have upon the
health or life Of Others.
Alum baking powders are introduced
largely by gliIs, prizes aud lottery
schemes. A piece Of glassware or
china, child's wagon, sled, n pewter
spoon or some other article OF attmr.
tive appearance, hut OF small intrinsic
value or cost IL given with each pur-
chase. or number Il attached 10 the
can which entities tho customer 10 O
similarly numbered article or 10 prize
u SOME kind. II IL Ia some such way
a. this that tho trade IN alum and am.
monia baking pow dcrs, which has how
attained such giant proportions and
their consumption by the public which
has reached an extent which IN truly
alarming.
The highest authorities Of all coun.
tries cOnaemn the USE Of alum In bread
without reserve. In America the most
distinguished phyAlcians, chemists anu
hygienists have declared that the traffic
Ia alum baking powders should bo sup
pressed by law. In England aud
France, where tho suble " pure food
aud Ia effect upon the system, has been
more FULLY considered aud made the
sui cct Of extended experiments by tho
scientists, so serious n matter II the use
Of alum In bread or other food consid.
cred 10 be, that most stringent laws
have been enacted TO prevent II. These
laws are rigidly enforced, and the sale
OF alum baking powders would not be-
permitted for an hour. Any one who
attempted 10 make thom for use In food,
or attempted 10 use them for raising
bread, biscuit or cake, would suffer
severe penalties.
The III effects upon tho system OF
food raised by alum baking powders
are tho more dangerous because Of their
insidious character, II would be le.s
dangerous to the community were II
fatal Mt once, for then such food would
DO avoided; but their deleteriOua ac-
ton because impercoptible Mt first IL no
less certain.
Tho pickering effect which alum has
when taken In the mouth Is familiar 10
every one. Physicians say this same
effect IL produced by II upon the deli
cate coats OF the stomach and intes.
tines.
What housewife would take home TO
her family can Of alum or ammonia
baking powder II she knew II. Such
powders not only UNDERMINE the syf-
tenn, but II Is polluted out that ammonia
taken Into the system In even iniini.
tesimai doses day after day imparis 10
the complexion sallow and biotcned
appearance.
IL Ia safe 10 discard all baking pow
der1 sold with prize or gift.
What a mlsnOmer are the words
absolutely Pure,"a applied 10 bal.
Ing powders. Two OF the largest sell
lug brands, one made from alum, tn.
other containing ammonia, ana both OF
these drugged baking powders have
stamped upon their labels aud circulara
these words absolutely Pure;" as a
matter OF fact they are "Absolutely
Pojr," as shown by official examina-
tlOns.