The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-23
DAIRY AND FOOD MEN
AND MANUFACTURERS
CLASH IN DEBATE
User of Personalities Sarcas-
ticaIIy Refers to Commission
ers as MenWhose knowledge
Is Theoretical.

clash between the dairy and food
commissioners and the manufacturers
. who attended the formers meeting was
the feature of the second days session
of the food commissioners convention
at the state capitol. For a while it
threatened to assume serious proper
tions.
It came during the deliverance
of an address by L. NJ. Frailey, OF the
Joseph Campbell Preserve company, OF
Camden, N. j., on the Food Profess
sion" Mr.. Frailey made the state
ment that the manufacturers feed 70
per cent of the population. After claim
ing that the use of personalities In
the preparation of jams, preserves and
ketchups was an absolute necessity, he
went on to say that, in the framing of
laws on the subject of pure foods, the
manufacturers ought to be consulted
much more than the commissioners,
whose knowledge, he limited, was to
great extent theoretical.
StartIes Convention.
This statement proved to be YER
table bomb and in moment ruttled
commissioners were on their feet ready
to refute Mr. Frailey's statement.
Prof Wiley tactfully averted much
wordy warfare by suggesting that Mr..
FraiIey was referring to congressional
rather than state legislation when he
made the statement, and Mr.. Frailey's
assent to this came as oil on the trou-
bled waters for a moment.
The calm was of but short duration,
however, for Attorney r. j. Mauck, OF
Columbus, had grievance. Brandish-
ing a circular, he claimed that it was
one of many that had been distributed
throughout this and other states by
syndicate of twenty eight manufacture
ers of the East over Mr.. Fraileys sig
nature instructing their customers to
pay little heed to the food commission
ers, as in many instances they were
Ignorant of the law and acting under
a pretense of scientific and legal au-
tkority."
This, Mr. Mauck declared, was an
uncalled for attack upon the state food
commissioners. The incident was free
~ commented on and the other manu-
facturers declined to accept Mr. Frai-
leys stand as their own. On the con-
trary they all expressed their desire to
work in uniformity with the commits
SIOuSIS, DIS lIey SOlISIlNlSO SQS1l SlClAOA4
was eminently to their own advantage.
Several of the leading food product
manufacturers in the country took part
in the discussion of three of the most i'm
portant questions that are before the
convention. These three propositions
concern the use Of antiseptics as pre-
servatives, the use of artificial color
ing matter and the adoption of a uni
form label.
Use of CoIoring Matter.
Many theories were advanced on
these subjects, some of them being
widely divergent, although there ap-
peared to be in most cases desire ap-
parent on the part of the manufacture
ers to cooperate with the food COM
missioners and to get the benefit of
their Investigations along the line of
greater purity in foods. 1t seemed to
be the sense of the meeting that the
stand taken by Prof. Wiley on the
question of food preservatives in his
speech before the convention on Tues
day was the correct one and could not
be improved on. Until his investiga-
tions are completed there it little like