Arizona republican., 1903-02-16
TI.e Pure Food Bills.
decree

It is well known that the laws in Germany against the adulteration of fcod and drink are stringent, with the result that comparatively little of either fCod or drink that is impure is sOli. In the United States, however, 1t is a sold is adulterated. There are, of course Iure foods and pure drinks, but Ec purchaser knows when the pure article is being supplied. Just, now there are before congress what are known as pare food bills. and some measure should be pI:shed to a passage all rladI q lGw % be enforced. A statement of the purport of tie bills is thus givr ra- These biljs require honesty in manu- f,i Sure and commerce of foods through cut tEc tnLriry, protect the honest manufacturer against unscrupuiJus. ccInpeLito $, sateguard interstate rom i nl;rce in foods, preventing the in ,:tsiG.. ; from state to state of misbranded f9C,iS CT these ';iniaining Geleterious sub stances. They protect the consumer everywhere against fraud and disease ''
 
 mulated by an organization made up of producers, dealers, consumers and health officers, discovers that such rneY, recognize that there is a great wrong to be righted. The dealers themselves | appreciate the fact that many of theII' ! products are frauds on the face. \ member of the house, in speaking on ! the question, made this statement
 The bill does not in terms pfohib't the sale of any product not deleterious i however adulterated, nor does it lay it's inhibition on the sale of an adulter- ated product. but it does provide tha, ! the adultcrated foods and drugs shal be placed upon the market under then true names and in such manner as tt advise the purchaser of what he is get ting. Does anybody object tn that? | 1 go to the corner grocery merchant and he proposes to sell me food have not 1 the right to know what he is sell ing me? Have not l the right to know whether that product is q fraud, de ceit or misrepresentation practicet upon me-"
 Right here is the kernal of the nu that ought to be cracked. Every pur chaser of food or drink should have { guarantee that he is receiving just ex actIy what he wants. and what he be lieves he is paying for. If purchase
 wishes an inferior article-one that i
 adulterated and not in q harmful wa, let him have it. but the same should
 be marked as an adulteration. Tn
 purchaser who seeks to get the purcs
 and best food or drink. and pays tin price of such an article, is entitled t.
 receive that for which he pays. Tn
 trouble is that harmless adulterate.
 articles are sold as pure. and at tn
 price of what ought to be pure. De ception of such a character is dishon
 esty, and as such it ought to be pun
 ished. Another member of the hous covers the harmful character of tn
 food ard drink adulterations in thi
 fashion:
 Diseases of the stomach are on tn
 increase in this country, and the tim
 has come when something must b : done to raise the standards of food W , eat. Our pantrics have become repnsi tories for harmful drugs so that it net strange that Americans take read
 fly to the use of medicines We talk
 drugs with our foods every day, an : have become so prscticed in the al 7 that we do not even turn our face avry at the strongest drugs.