The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-06-13
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PURE AND HONEST FooD.


Pure Food Commissions and Healtn
Exhibitions seem to attract reasonable
share Of public attention, and 10 do their
work we'll. IL is possible too that In
the centers where they operate Their
value TO the large and crowded popula'
tions is very great though 1t MAY not
be very generally recognized. 1t seems
Be US, however, that even II these asso>
Citations were in existence all over the
country. and granting that chetr WORK
was performed in the most satisfactory
way possible, they could not in the na'
ture OF Things put the public ON their
guard against AMY adulterated product
not soid In bulk. With coffee, tea, -four
sugar. butter, pepper, and all bulk goods
we can easily see how such organizations
can do the purchaser of provisions a
real and meritoraous service, but with
canned goods such service is impossible.
When the impeneyrabLe tin surrounds
anything. be 1t corn OF salmon, vegeta'
bles or preserves, meat or fowl, the mat
ter OF aduiteratton rests solely between
the packer and the consumer. And II
would be imposing 1ar too much on the
financial resources ami labor Of Pure
Food Commissions TO expect them to car
ry their researches very far lilo the
neld OF canned products The protection
therefore, that the purchaser OF coffee
or tea to "a certain extent obtains by
reason of the presence and active llbors
Of agents Of these commissions, is not
given to the buyer of canned goods. He
10 very much ait the mercy OF the store
keeper. aud the storekeeper in his turn
Is at the mercy of the tobb@ Where,
then, can the consumer OF canned food
turn for the protection and advice that
the expenditure of his probably hard
earned money entities him to?
TO the honest Gamer, who while jeal-
oussy guarding his own private and i'm
mediate intersUts has foresight and cour'
age enough to spend a litle of his profits
in reaching the consumer by every means
in his power and teaching him how he
can be sure OF his purchases, and how
he can obtain good service and pure
goods from hts grocer with the exercise
OF very little precautlon. The honest
packer in the first place must make the
quality OF his goods such as to bear out
his statements in fun. and little bit
more, and then he must enter on an
aggressive an unceaetng, and never
let-up campaign OF education. He wants
to brand on his own brain. iIhe education
OF the consumer" and never to forget
that here lies his great and merchant
able gold mine, Does tine jobbsr create
the demand for canned goods? No. Does
the whloresade or retail grocer create the
denland? No. II Is the man who wants
to take home the ARTICLE and turn " out
on his table and he alone who keeps alive
q market and makes Vt possible fer the
packer to exist.
Take the case Of the Columbia River
cannerman. He Eve use the term in tho
singular number, because the majority
Of them have Elhe same beroggsd Ideas
on Uh.s queal0n) sees in front of him,
looming up Into the Clouds the gigantic
STATUE OF his jobber. He has a hazy
notion that the jobber, after buying his
goods. manages TO dispose of them some
where or other, and maybe his vision
sees behind the jobber's p@Nly back the
insignificant figure of the grocer. The
man who In turn Stands back Of the
grocer is too small TO be seen without
microscope, and the packers time Is
TOO valuable, he Is too ''rushed" for him
to Try TO look ait anything through ma
croecope, 80 he ambles on, In the steady
beslef that the jobber Is tine only factor
taak stands betweUm HIM and destruction
IA sort OF mercantile life buoy on the
stormy uea OF business
Il Il as much tine duty Of the packer
to tea every man. woman and child in
The counxy arl that is worth knowing
about ciEumb.a River sllmon as it is the
duty OF the school ueacher to teach his
georraphy class What part OF the world
the cosuabIa River belongs to.
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