The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
FOOD SHOW OPENS
Begins With Addresses at z :3O
This Afternoon.
Enormous Crowd Expected at
the Exposition Tonight.
SOME PRETTY SIGHTS.
Many Novelties Never Seen Be-
fore in Any Exposition.
Foreign Exhibitors Are Here
in Force.

The strains of orchestra music from
the stand on the upper floor proclaimed
the opening of the Pure Food EXPOSE
ton at 2:30 this afternoon and the peo-
pie crowded into the halls on tip-toe
with expectancy. They had been told
that the hall was beautiful, but they
were hardly prepared for the beauty
that shone from every portion of the
hall.
Men and women worked during the
long hours of the night to prepare their
booths for the opening, but in spite of
that fact some of the spaces are in
complete.
In many of the booths are we'll
known Topeka society women, who, foT
charity's sake, dOnned white aprons tC
cook the food that is served at the ex-
pense of the enterprising manufac-
turers and dispensed free to the patrons
of the show.
President Edward Wilder of the Pure
Food association called for order from
the front of the stage soon after 2:30.
Mr.. Wilder said, humorously, among
other things:
Everything in this world is compar-
alive, and fortunately the comparison
must always be made with the past in
stead of with the future. Were it not
so, we should be constantly depressed
by the insufficiency of our results as
compared with the aCnleE6ln6nIS Oh u
ture genera tons, and should feel little
of that stimulation of success which is
so important a factor in all progress
while we fondly imagine that the
pure food movement had it's birth and
development into luSty manhood in this
generation, the fact is that it began
some generations ago, when, by the
restless Investigating spirit of Captain
Cook and his eonfreres, and from the
determination of our evangelical Cpgan-
IN world
tain savage tribes, which knew little of
cereals, We're enabled to exercise a nice
discrimination between the dark meat,
to which their choice had Heretofore
been confined, and the more delicate
white meat of higher civilization, which
choice of color and texture, as to more
innocent victims, is also one of the in
dulgences of our modern feasts.''
Mr. Wilder then introduced Mayor G.
A. Fellows, who said in the course of
his remarks:
Pure thoughts are necessary to the
mind and pure food for the body The
opposite means mental decay and ply
steal waste. Destroy the body, and the
mind ceases to exist.
The life of the state depends on the
life of the citizen, and the power of the
state must be used to preserve its own
existence.
The state uses the great power con-
ferred upon it by it's creators to pro-
tect the Individual from physical VIC
destruction of it's sustaining power by
its impure foods and authorizations
Man needs more protection from the
latter evil than the former; the one
comes in the form of savage brutality,
the other in the guise of a benefactor
and friend.
THE greater the deception, the great
er the danger. The individual is help
less. The state is powerful. 1t requires
the great might of the state to discover
and punish. The citizen has a right to
demand this action on the part of the
state. The people, through their rep
resentatives in the legislature confer
the power on the state to act; we must
therefore look to them to confer upon
the state such powers as may be nee
essary to protect the citizens of the
state from the harmful effect of impure
food and authorizations. The danger is
greater than ever before, and constant
~ increasing 1t must be restrained
the time for action and self protection
has arrived. The moral effect of this
meeting Will be great, but we are con-
tending against an aggressive and ra-
paciouS enemy
1t will take the combined and earn
est effort of every sympathizer with
this movement to accomplish desirable
results, but. with all working together
Will surely come in the end