Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-28

%NkfSEK tracts from II:
epEz4S% 1 support the bill
VIZ because it offers an
appropriate legal
protection against the adulteration OF
the peoples food. In the process OF
taxation it identifies fraud and es-
corts notorious swindle into the light
Of day. You have read the pre-
cept of Scripture which exhorts
you to take no thought of what we shall
eat or what we shall drink or wnere-
withal we shall be clothed. That Scrip
ture will need a new Interpretation uh-
less we can in some way manage u
rescue the food and drink and clothing
Of the people of the United States rom
the hands of the counterfeiters. AS
the case now stands, neither the clothes
on our backs nor the food on our tables
nor the common weapons for tightlng
thirst between meals have escaped sus-
picion. In this carnival Of deceit the
rich and the poor alike suffer. under-
take to say that this world in which we
live will not go on permanently ulluer
a system like that. It will not go Oh
forever buying coffee grains dellcateiy
nodded out of blue mud. 1t will not go
on buying tea that has been generously
commingled with the dried leaves OF
the forest 1t will not go on drinking
wine that has been manufactured In
cellar without the intervention OF
grapes, nor those other and more pene-
trating beverages that have entered
into partnership with such fatal as
sortment of explosive chemicals as to
greatly facilitate the descent OF our
fellow-citizens, as the old negro preach
er expressed it, down the fabricated
sleeps to the opaque profundity OF dam
nation.
I do not say that all the manufac-
turers in the present stage OF the in
dustry are guilty of fraud. 1 will not
even go so far as to say that all the
wholesalers habitually perpetrate
fraud. But I do say that the evidence
is sufficient to show that the business
itself is fraud, and for one am here
for the purpose of looking little to the
rights Of the man who orders Iowa
full cream cheese" and is furnished by
the wholesale dealer with spurious
and inferior article. am here looking
to the rights of the citizens of this
country who go into store for the pur-
pose of buying cheese and take home
with them an Objectionable admixture
6of SKINNED milk and soap grease. l
em speaking here for the victims Of the
American clearinghouse system who
eat cheese for the purpose of promoting
the digestion of pie, and then have to
take another pie in order to secure the
digestion of the cheese. The American
dairymen understand this question
thoroughly. Every profound student of
human affairs teaches us that agricul-
ture is the basis of civilization ITSELF
and that no possible prosperity can ex-
list in this world under conditions that
do not yield to the cultivators Of the
soil a fair return. So that if new
business, begotten in the laboratory Of
the chemist, by false pretenses, threat
ems to narrow the opportunities of the
American farm by occupying its mar
ket place at home or by destroying it's
reputation abroad, as my friend from
Minnesota indicated, and the law comes
in and levies a tax on that new bust
nf a1 mn fhaA H.
may operate in some measure, at least,
to promote the welfare of the most
ancient and honorable occupation of
the human race.
One-half the American people live
on the farm; and nearly all the rest of
them that are worth mentioning were
born there. The general welfare, to
provide for which our institutions were
established, requires that the food-pro-
ducing millions should be secure in
their pursuits; nor should any adroit
imposition, however backed by money,
be allowed to take from the farm any
portion Of its legitimate earnings. Give
the American COW a fair chance. She
has been the faithful servant of man.
She landed with our ancestors at Ply
mouth Rock; and, tied behind the old
weather-beaten emigrant wagon, she
has marched, with the household goods
of the pioneers who have taken possess
sion Of this country, from ocean to
ocean. She has increased and multi
piled and replenished the earth, until
today the industries which she has
made possible contribute annually to
the wealth of the world more money
than the great combinations Of modern
capital-more than iron and steel, more
than lumber and coal, more than cot
ton and wheat, more than all the looms
Of New England, more than all the mys-
terious riches Of gold and of silver.
Black Langshans