Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-02-17
FHE DEMOCRACY CAPTURED
kARvELoUs SHIFTING OF CON-
p,TIoNs PRoPHEslED.
lu !, Name of Roosevelt = The
Chances of Pure Food Legislation
"A Tip for W. c. 7. U. and Kim
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washington, ID. c, FEB To- oo.-
NO result of last weeks ciose Vo.e
the senate on the lohs-uraWh-,V1'u .a
Rood hill is still in doubt, ike
t u'.nt from n close election. On
go of the returns Oklahoma
Va indian Territory are admitted as
state and New Mexico as ah-
,nar leaving Arizona out, but there
re complications. Ordinarily .ne
Am would now go to n coilerehcs
r,,nittee of few members eacn
enm the house and senate VINO wouio
,tnn,nt 10 and doubtless succeed IN
arnnnizing the bill as passed WIN
r. original house bill ana Una.
onld he the end of 1t; but IL Is saiu
bot Sneaker Cannon is not az an
riendly to the bill as II came run
he senate and he mas ioulu ,haa
artoin amendment calls Tor an APP
aaariation which necessitates send
nv il TO the house appropriations
sS,n,ittee for report. This couiu
LII. he overcome, but when the Dill
80 bock into the house II cannot
III no acted on without the speak
,s consent. and if he is not friendly
Il be can easily find a way TO pre-
further action. Thus does the
ua.man mower of the house manifest
tself However, his preJudices, IL ne
have any, may be overcome anu tlie
Briends and boomers of the measure
xpect that it will go through an
iIbt at this session. If II does not,
LIN fail in toto, and all the vast
,orr of two years will have to be
one over again. / rather suspect II
,nl he all right for the bill ana that
70 new states will be assured be-
or, the fast waning session closes.
Sftar the statehood bill the pure
bod hill becomes the regular order
II business in the senate whenever
he anpropriation bills do not require
he time, and will serve as krlttins
york the remainder of the session
rben having served its purpose IN
ttanding in the way and preventliiS;
nvthing else being done 1t 'wlll
uietly be dropped into opliVlo, d
rbere is a tremendous pressure ana
bonlIIar demand for the enactment OF
national law preventing the adul-
aration of food and drink products,
which the above bill contemplates'
Fac senate we'll realizes this, but
here is also a tremendous counter
bressure from the manufacturers OF
dulterated products who don't want
heir business interfered with. There
also an opinion on the part of some
enators that the bill before them Is
90 stringent in its provisions, ana
hin work hardships In undeserVeu
uarters OF course, the effect OF
inch a law would be to drive many
PRODUCERS of and dealers in fraudu-
emit goods out of business, and this
Unite possibly is large factor In re
listing the enactment of the Dill.
Also as a reason, there is the usual
enatorial tendency to walt ana
brocrastinate and defer. So, in con-
liberation of all this, we may look
or no pure food legislation at TINS
ession. If the bill passes, ! WIFI De
amazingly and equally astonlshed
With thousands of others. Ihere
vim be a pure food law in the not
Instant future, but the people W., WI
have to twist the screws little tlght-
r. | may and will throw in great
Ind glowing truth right here: II the
Nomen's Christian Temperance I'm
on and other like organizations
you'd address themselves to the task
bf promoting a law which would
compel pure and wholesome food
products, either by petition, lobbying
r letter writing, and give the
Smoot and the canteen questions a
brief interval of repose, they would
ery largely increase their reputation
Tor we'll directed legislative effort.
fhe question of being able TO pur-
khase pure and unadulterated articles
bf food at a grocery store hits every
han, woman, child and infant
quarely in the solar plexus, and is OF
lastly more consequence to them all
(han whether there shall be two-per-
Gent or n-per-cent beer sold in
older's clubhouse at barracks, or
Whether Senator Smoot is any worse,
morally, than thousands of Yer
honters who might, could, would, or
)hould be divorced or church mauled
TOR good and sufficient reason. |
|hrow in the above simply as food Tor
mental digestion.
For fact the democrats on the
boor of the house are sadly split and
emoralized. If they voted as unit
hey could seldom accomplish any
hing with majority of "a against
hem, but they have become house
livided against themselves. The ele-
bent of Hearst democrats, which has
ecently been making a pretty stiff
moving. has fatty rebelled against
he leadership of John Sharp Will
Jams, If things were not bad
nough before, this is hnlSher. IL
more than suspected that the anti
Williams party is laying the founda-
Jon for reorganization of the party
lnder the leadership of a Bryan
Hearst combination cutting loose
fom the old conservative mossback
lement and paving the way for
lew platform with new leaders. The
handwriting on the wall is that the
Ed democratic party of Hill. Parker,
Belmont. German and that combina-
Jon leading a blind and obedient
|outh is as dead as a kit of mackerel