The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-17
DRUGGISTS TRY A CENSOR
PAPERS TO BE PASSED UPON
BY A COMMITTEE

H. H. Meyer, of Sleepy Eye, Fur
nishes the Excuse for the Action
The Pharmacists Think That
His Weapon Was Little Heavy
for the Eighth Consecutive Time.
The State Pharmaceutical association
wound up it's annual meeting at the
| capitol yesterday afternoon after put
ting In very busy day.
A matter which excited considerable
discussion. and was aired quite fully
at the meeting on Wednesday, was that
of submitting all papers to a commit
tee for approval before being read at
the annual meeting. At the first days
session a resolution was passed au-
thorizing the appointment Of COM
mfttee to read and revise all papers be-
| fore being presented to the society. The
motion was provoked by a very spicy
paper read by H. H. Meyer, of Sleepy
Eye, who told Of a number Of trade
grievances and incidentally took a
whirl at the doctors. There were q
number of practices In which the drug
gist got decidedly the worst Of the deal,
and Mr.. Meyer was not sparing Of his
| words in denounoing such practices.
Our Condition" was the subject of his
paper and the doctors did not alone
come In for the censure as there were
many things which they might remedy
themselves. After Mr.. Meyer had COM
| pleted his paper, a very breezy discus
sion followed. The meeting was not Of
one mind upon the ideas advanced in
Mr.. Meyers address, and the resolu-
| ton above referred to resulted. Mr..
Meyer in his paper took a hard rap
at the doctors.
The session yesterday decided to re-
wise Mr.. Meyers paper before spreading
1t upon the minutes. The meeting fur
Their decided to amend the original reso-
| luton passed on Monday, so as to refer
all papers to the secretary for approval,
with the consent Of the author. The
following officers were elected:
President-CharIes T. Heller ST. Paul.
First Vice President-John Nelson, Orion
Vile.
Second Vice President-Josie Various, Min
neapolis
Third Vice President-C. A. Portman, jack
son.
Treasurer-H. W. Reitzke St. Paul.
Executive Committee. F. Donsh, Mn
Reapolis; A T. Hall St. Paul. and A. J..
In accepting the office of president
G. T. Heller made neat speech in
which he thanked the society for the
honor of being elected to office for the
eighth consecutive year.
The remainder Of the officers made
brief remarks upon the occasion of their
election.
The association decided to recommend
the names Of three well known phar-
macists for the place which will be
vacant next year on the state board
The recommendation was made merely
as the association, and not by virtue
! of the state law, which was declared
| unconstitutional by the supreme court
The names Of George H. Goodrich, Of
| Anoka; George S. Spaulding, AIexan-
| dria, and Alexander Richards, of Still
water, were the ones to be presented
! to the governor
| lengthy discussion was INDUCED in
upon the war tax on proprietary medi-
cines.
John Nelson thought that the manu-
facturers should stand the tax, mas
| much as they received the benefit Of
the difference in price when the old
patent medicine law went out of eff
feet The druggists had suffered much
from rate cutting by department stores,
and they ought not be compelled to
carry an additional burden.
George Goodrich stated that he was
the owner Of proprietary medicine and
he did not intend to increase the price.
President Heller read a resolution
adopted by the New Jersey association
and also one from the Washington as
| ISOLATION, protesting against being i'm
posed with the burden of the tax.
George Richards said the druggists
did not owe the patent medicine people
| anything, and they were not obliged
| to push such preparations. The people
| could be educated to go back to the
old prescription style, and only sell the
patent articles when it was called for.
| President Heller also stated that a
letter had been received from large
patent medicine concern In New York
about the middle of May, urging them
to fight the tax, saying that they would
not advance the price. Later a cir
] cular was issued saying that the price
had been advanced SO per dozen, when
the actual tax only came to fifty-four
| cents.
| There was considerable adverse SEN
timent developed against the policy of
the manufacturers on the tax question,
| and resolution was passed protesting
/ against paying the tax on the small
margin of profit allowed them on that
| line of goods.
of the state university, on 1.-THE Ameri-
can Pharmaceutical Association fol-
lowed by another paper on "Our Bust
ness Outlook" by H. C. Kruckberg, of
Minneapolis. Prof. Willing read an
other paper on Powdered Drugs and
c. S. Burrows spoke on Should the
Pharmaceutical Law be so Amended
That Only Graduates of Accredited
Colleges be Admitted to Examination. %
Memorial resolutions were passed in
memory of G. A. Schumacher, of st.
Paul, who died since the last meeting.
The legislative committee was in
structed to secure a change in the law
regulating the appointment of the state
board to conform with the decision, of
/ the supreme court.
CLOSED WITH A BANQUET.
The members Of the association cele-
DRAFTED the close of their convention
work with most enjoyable banquet
at the Windsor hotel last night.
The large dining room of the hotel
was prettily decorated for the occasion.
The tables were arranged in the form
! of hollow square and presented a
pretty sight with the snowy white linen
dotted here and there with huge
punches Of roses and vases of cut flow
ers. Plates had been laid for seventy
| five, but the business cares of a num-
Der of the members of the association