Arizona republican., 1904-10-31

gate to congress. Not one of them vii 1 be accomplished if Mark smith is elected.
 The Prevalence of Food AduIteratIou , MT. Paul Pierce, the superintendent of food products at the St. Louis o%- ! position. has prepared an exhal-tive . article on food adulteration, and h. makes Q strong plea fer e naIonal pure food law. MT. Pierce lays tho premise that what a man eats, and not what he wears, Is the test Of manly strength and physical ha-diEood. We need men instead of bilious and dys- peptic weddings To get them we will have to give at least as much thought to our foods and our cookery as we do to the covering that we put upon the outer man, he tells us.
 The Iniiana state board os health gives us the following actual breakfast in a workingman's family in India naro.is: Tried sausage: This sausage. like the greater proportion Of sausages on the market. was cclored with an uine red and was adulterated with about 10 per cent. Of GaIlad corn grit5. Apple butter: Cclored with anili2e red and loaded with glucose. Butter. Col ored with azo-dye. and aduHcrated with water. This butter contained 2 : per cent. of water (the legal standard : is not to exceed r per cent. Of water), ] Coffee: The coffee hal been glazed with glazing mixture oompozed of deN- ! urine and starch, co.o-ed with brown aniline dye. Bread: Cheap bakers bread. soggy, not sufficiently baked. and containing glucose and malt ex- tract. Potatoes: These were normal ; Gravy: Ma-e Of flour milk and drip from the colored and adUlte-ated @au- sage. The breakfast consisted of seven ! articles. Of which only one was normal ! Five articles. or T per cent, contained artificial coloring natter
 Every little while story is told in the public prints about The almost fatal illness Of a family on account Of hav- ing eaten poisoned foods. Occasionally a member of the family does not re- cover from the illness.
 The consumer must object to dele terious and injurious substances going into food compounds. He must object to apple cores being sold as curra0t jelly; to unrire. knotty, fegmeEtcd and Irstten tomatoes being manufactured into catsu-, to butter sweetened or kept sweet by boracic acid and chem ' HicaHy colored; to jam, jelly and p-e- serves being made Of ge-atinc and G.u- cose with chemical coloring and flavor.
 and not even distanuy related to the
 fruit the label calls for; 10 oxide of
 iron. tea dust and starch being sold for
 tea; to chemical vinegar, catsup and
 table sauces which contain no veGe- table matter; to making pickles greer
 by Q preparation or copper; to beers
 that are rank with salicylic acid.
 Abraham Lincoln gave the .ollow- ing recipe for prolozging life: Do no'
 worry; eat three square meals a day;
 say your prayers; think of your wife,
 be courteous to yo1r creditors; kesr your digestion good; steer clear of bill
 iouzness; exercise; go slow and easy Maybe there are other things that your
 especial case requires to make you
 happy, but, my friend. these, I reckon
 will give you a good life"
 And, indeed how can we eat thre'
 square meals and keep our digestion good. when fer a great part of the time
 we do not know what we are eating
 The meal that We call a square Inea
 may be made up of all sorts of adul terated, deleterious food and drink.
 It is. commonly agreed by the meli cal profession that indigestion, whicl is the bane Of the human family i F caused more by impure, adulterate' food pro-uct5 than by excesses ant abuses in eating.
 The international jury of awards O l the St. Louis Louisiana purchase ex Q position has just passed the foIowin. 9 resolutions, according to MT. Pierce: ! Be it resolved, that in the interest |, of the farm products of this countr
 jeopardized by labels that are untru
 with respect to the nature or origin O 4 such products, we deem it imperativ
 that this body Of agricultural juror
 favor strict laws in all states an
 countries prohiting labels or brands o q agricultural products, raw or p-c n pared, that are in any respect untru
 or misleading
 Advocates of pure food lesislatio t are turning hopefully to the pure foo
 bill that has been reported favora D. <, by the senate committee. whieh, il
 stead of vesting autocratc powers i
 an outside official, gives an eztende statement Of what constitutes adultel