The Washington times., 1904-11-20

Famous Poison Squad
Is Not Composed of
LoaferS.
Crusader Reviews Work
That He Has So Far
Achieved.
Last Shot in War to Be
Fired at Next
Congress.

But the peculiar letters which come
into DR.. Wiley are not all from those
who are interested IN the whisky ques-
ton. He gets advice. that cheapest or
human commodities. from all sorts and
conditions. OF men and women. The no
tice that he was going TO start table
for special food experiments drew hun
dreds OF applications. and still draws
them. One man whose speciality has
hitherto been wild and farm lands
in Wisconsin and the DakOtas wrote as
follows:
II have observed from time 70 time
articles IN the newspapers in regard 10
your experiments with preservatives Tor
foods by tests upon persons under your
charge and direction, and now IL occurs
TO me that you might wish some new
boarders.' And, II so. will you kindly
inform me under what arrangements 1
would offer myself. 1 am fifty-tWo years
old, in good Eealth. young in appear
ance, being taken as perhaps forty or
so years old. The land business has
been only a temporary affair with me-
and the Office work in which have been
employed has failed. So l would look
upon this as a new job.
member Of the West Side Athletic
Club in New York. who runs better
/ than he writes, wrote to Dr.. Wiley IN
regard to some tests Of tobacco which
the Department OF Agriculture made.
| Il read:
Reading about the experimt ats you
are going to make on tobacco users.
would Ike 10 be one OF your Subjects
/ have used tobacco for about ten years,
| and never found any III effects from It
have used ii continually while training
i can run from one 10 twenty-five miles
without stopping. Could you have me
run every day and pote what effect to-
bacco would have on me think l would
make an interesting subject / have got
an open challenge TO run any amateur
Runner IN the country a L or A-hour
race, hoping to hear from you. i re-
main. etc.
A Poet on Borax.
One OF the most amusing letters on
DIR. Wuey's nIes came from a massa-
chusetts saf,e. II was on the subject Of
borax that ae tackled the department
Il am peet, novelist, areheologist.
| former. etc. about as Virgil was l am
10 have studied long and faithfully
on soda and borax and this IS why l
write 10 YOU. / know Of the experiments
/ bcipe tried in your department and L
can help YOU. / can embalm cadayer
as IL was done 4. 600 years ago. but l viii
dissolve all the fluids, lubricants. rats
} IN the body, leaving only little OF the
muscles and tendons on the bones hke
leather. Borax Is one form of sodd.
Rorax Is a devil: bOracic acid worse.
at am sorry our country Is ruined 50
bv trusts, monOpolists and butchers atd
! r. r. magnates. People will begin soon
p to call things Dy their right names.
; The poet in him could not help DfeaA-
ing out and he added these verses
? which he called An Address 10 Con
gress."
"Of all the devils in this world Of grace
Perhaps the trust-fend takes the
The striKs-fiend is power far from
Perhaps the borax-hend viii beat them
all.
when the trust Judas tries the state
Taking his millions out OF watered
It is not public policy I see,
. High treason is the name that comes
10 be.
THE public Judas will all trades CON
troll;
Behold and see a Congress without
coal!
% The people freeze ana they begin to
q We thing of Haman and his gallows
high.
a | Congress awake your bleeding
20 country Cdllsl
- Congress awake you freeze in your OWL
- halls
Congress awake! be TO the people true
d The people now demand this right ol
you"