The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-11-04

that food shall be declared impure which
is rendered poisonous or injurious to
health, or whose quality, strength or de
gree of purity is injuriously reduced, low
cred or affected by adding thereto or mix
ing Herewith any other substance or sub
stances, or for whose constituents inferior
substances have been substtuted or any
food from which valuable or necessary
constituent has been distracted: or any
food which consists wholly or in part of
diseased, decomposed, putrid, infected,
tainted or rotten animal or vegetable sub
stance; milk below the standard, and
calves killed before they are three weeks
old Now where can anybody find fault
with these provisions Without them it is
easy to see how INSCRIPTIONS persons
could cas- ly push upon the public what
ever they wished to in the way of impure
and absolutely injurious articles The
fact that such practices were in vogue
was what led to the necessity for this law.
1t was carefully prepared, was submitted
to many authorities, among them the
State Board of Agriculture, and was
passed by a unanimous vote. That was
in 1901, and not kick or objection has
been recorded until this Fall of 1902,
year and a half after the statute was APP
proved. Why this sudden awakening
Simply because some druggists and others
have been called to account under the
sections of the bill They claim to have
been prosecuted, that the articles for
which they were called to account were
not those intended to be put under the
ban. This may have been so in one in
stance, but in the case of at least one
druggist in Camden it was found that
many of the articles on which he was ar
raigned were not one-quarter pure. The
persecution" complained of comes from
the fact that an agent or inspector may go
into drug store and seize some unim
portant article as a basis of complaint.
This will hold good in any case. Take
the game law for instance. If man goes
out with gun on Sunday he is liable to
arrest for cunning, and the burden of
proof is on him to show otherwise. If a
man does not securely tie his dogs and
they get loose and chase game, he is liable
to fine. Yet who can say that the game
law has not been beneficial. AS we said
before, the pure food bill was not passed
until it had been carefully considered and
submitted to experts, and if the standard
10 foo hirh If tho rrnUiciOnc ORC toc ctroD
uous that is a matter easily remedied
Now, as to John G Horner's connection
with the passage of the bill. He did not
| frame it, nor did he introduce it. 1t was
put before the House by a member from
Passaic. The Druggists Association,
with it's committee on legislation constant
| ly at Trenton, examining all bills likely
to affect that trade, did not make any OBJ
lection to it, 1t went through without a
dissenting voice. In the matter of pros
ecution it is but fair to say that every
dollar of fine in prosecutions under this
law goes into the state treasury, not into
the pockets of inspectors or lawyers. All
the agitation on this subject has been
started by one OF the men VINO was caught
with goods below the standard. Natural
ly he feels sore, but he has not seen fit to
take advantage of an appeal to discover
whether the analysis was faulty. There
is no reason for fear on the part of any
one who is doing strictly honest and up
right business. The dealer is not the only
persOn to be protected The Dublic has
lots of rights in this world. If the law is
not right or unjust get the Legislature to
remedy it, and John G. Horner has prom
Used eff it is in any wise unjust or unduly
oppressive. | would be only too glad to
do all in my power to amend or repeal it. "
To this assertion he has attached his sig
nature, and that is more than the coward
who wrote the scurrilous circular dared