Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-10-06

situation by calling representatives Of
| the Wisconsin Wholesale Grocers' as
ISOLATION together in conference
with himself. The law and the condi-
| lions were fully discussed. This meet
ing materially aided the commissioner
| in reaching his Interpretation of the
law in his rulings which h> soon pub
Ilished The Wholesale Grocers' associa-
ton aided the commission in sending
these rulings and the food laws to the
retail dealers throughout the state.
This conference with the Wholesale
Grocers' association resulted in the
loyal support by that association of the
commission in the enforcement of the
food laws from that time until now.
FourfoId Activity.
The administrative policy of the
commissions embraces the following
agencies: Education, publicity, warn
ing, prosecution.
The agency of education has been
employed in furnishing manufacturers,
dealers and the daily newspapers print
I the state, and the Interpretation of the
meaning of those laws as expressed in
rulings. Numerous circulars have
been issued in explanation of the laws,
in their application to various adulter-
ated food products found upoa the mar
ket. When the conditions in the lab
oratory admit analyses of suspected
l., IA, 1f,, Of
dealers or consumers and reports OF
results Of such analyses returned.
/ The agency Of publicity has been
and is employed. In the biennial re
ports of the commission, the results of
the chemists analyses have been pub
lished. Adulterated articles have thus
been brought to public notice, and to
the attention Of dealers. The infor~
nation thus brought to public notice
through the biennial reports proving
to be too slow to be Of greatest service
in reaching those most concerned, the
passage of a law was procured in 1903,
which authorized the commissioner to
issue quarterly bulletins. in which shall
be reported the results Of the chemists
analyses and Of inspections. The ten
thouand copies Of this quarterly buI-
letin are supplied to manufacturers of
and dealers in food products and to the
daily press. This agency is proving
to he a potent force in lessening adul-
teratons and in exposing deception,
The commission has employed the
agency of warning dealers who have
manifested a sincere desire to comply
with the pure food laws, and who have
for want of ready means of informing
themselves as to the character Of GER
tain deceptive products. been found
selling the same in ignorance of their
unlawful character The sincere de-
sire on the part of most dealers TO be
lawabiding citizens is one OF the strong
est aids to the commission, in secur-
ing general compliance with dairy and
food laws. Efforts to cultivate and
strengthen this desire have been made
and ii energy well and wisely spent.
The spirit Of lawabiding citizenship In
food dealers Is to be cultivated and re-
lied upon 10y the commissioner.
Prosecutions of willfu and persist
|,nt offenders is the agency Of ultimate
resort to enforce compliance with food
laws. This agency, too il is the
policy and practice Of the commission.
ia compliance with the mandates OF
our law. to invoke. As time passes
and dealers become familiar with the
provisions of the statutes this agency
must he increasingly employed.
Wisconsin has not reached pure
food millennium aut she has made
great progress in reducing to a min
tmum the adulteraton Of dairy and food
1 products. The excellent work she
has done as a beginning furnishes
/ ground for belief that still greater sue.
cess in this line avaI,s her future ef-
.orts