The Washington times., 1904-11-20
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Relentless Foe of All
Who Deal in Adul-
teratiOnS.
Earnest Work to Safe
guard Public From
Frauds.
Gets Many Letters and
Keeps Some Upon a
Funny File.

The last shot in the pure food war
viii be fired in the next session OF Con
gress if the hopes of DIT. Harvey ".
Wiley are realized.
A bin empowering the authorities to
examine and pass upon the purity OF
all domestic foods introduced into the
States and Territories Of this country
comes before the Senate for vote A.
ready II has passed the HOUSE. i Il be
comes a law The chain viii be Oonp-etes
and had viii be the way of the trans
gressor. For there is a law already in
effect which provides for the inspection
of suspicious foods imported from -or-
eign lands. With the proposed interstate
law IN working order the people OF the
United States will be assured protection
against manufacturers both European
and American. What a great beneht
this viii be can only be realized when
II is known how many hundreds and
thousands OF frauds have been perpe-
trated here by the adulteration and false
labelling Of foods imported and manufac-
tured in this country.
II all the ills that flesh is heir 10
originate in the stomach, as many
medical men would have US believe. II
certainly behooves the great American
people 10 be more careful what they
eat. Already they have come TO such
a pass that many of them live on pre-
digested food and have prehistoric
theories about eating only once OF twice
a day.
1T has been my ambition 10 live Ions
enough 10 see the American people as,
sured pure foods" said DR. Wiley 70 q
Times reporter. ''and / hope that a few
weeks viii see its fulhllment For more
than fifteen years / have worked to &C.
complish this end"
Doctor Wiley, the pure food man" al
whom all manner Of fun has been pOkeC
by the joke makers, is by no means a
joke. When he took up the gauntle
thrown down by a crowd Of greedy para
sites who were making huge fortunes
by selling 10 the public foods that Wer,
not what they seemed. he determined
10 quash their nefarlOus practices. Thi
work has been aside and apart from tn,
large amount cf purely scientific inves
tigation which has been carried on b.
the doctor as head OF the Bureau O
Chemistry Of the Department OF Agri
culture.
I'm the fifteen years Of work we hav,
covered and are covering ali kinds o.
foods and drink" continued DR. Wiley
The results OF these investigation
have been published in Bulletin 1a
which, when completed. viii have thir
teen parts. Let's hope that this com
binatiOn of numbers will bring har'
luck % the fraudulent dealers. We be
gan with dairy products and are endinl
with hard drinks. And apropos Of thes'
same hard drinks. ] would say that
do not object 10 the sale of Scotch whis
ky la this country nor 10 the sale o
domestic whisky either, but what 1 d
insist upon Is that what is sold a
whisky shall really be whisky.
MY personal experience with ScOtcl
whisky Is rather limited. for / do no
drink H. When j was in Edinburgh
bought a bottle OF the genuine stun, in
tending 10 bring it 10 this country 10
examination and comparison with IN
article sold here. / packed IL carefully
i'm my valise. but that was the last
saw of H. for my travelling companion
drank IL all ard left only the bottle
But there is no doubt that much OF IA
scotch whisky sold in the United State
js made OF alcohol manufactured in, say
Peoria.
Has Manufacturers on the Hip.
.'Once the manufacturers are com
pelled 10 label all their products truth
FULLY. people win know exactly wha
they are getting And this Is just Wha
vye have been working for So long. tn
consumer viii get what he wants. wha
ne asks for, and what he pays for. Tn
consumer is protected from the chea
and the manufacturer is prevented frOr