Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-09-28
LADD PAYS HIS COMPLI.
MENTS TO WHOLESALERS

He Replies In Vigorous Fashion to
Attack of Secretary Of National
Association. {ss " I
Pure Food Commissioner Ladd
throws some hot shot into the secre-
tary of the National Wholesale Groc-
ers association, who recently made an
address before that body on the lard-
Ship entailed by the North Dakota
pure food law. Prof Lasdd says: 10
It is clearly evident he would have
law where 1T would be necessary to
come into court for each and every
case and to prove that salicyldc acid,
formaldehyde, saccharin, boractc acid,
coal tar dyes and, heaven knows what
else, are harmful ITO the health and
that the eating of products actually
produced am injury to the person who
consumed the same. Why would he
do this? In order THAT powerful cor
porations with their corporation law
yers, skilled in methods of deceit and
by employing socalled experts, they
could come into the courts and SO
cloud the minds of THE jury as to mis-
lead them and deceive them, and thus
secure, If not an acquittal, a disagree
ment in the case. If forma ldehyde is
harmful then why is it necessary to
come into the courts with every case
to prove that it was Injurious: Let
the statute prohibit it's use. If sac
charm Is a fraud why should we have
to thresh it out every time in the
courts in order ITO secure punishment
for the guilty party? If bouacic acid
produces nephritis of the kidneys, why
must this fact be proven each time be-
fore prosecution can be had? Gs
Does MIR. Lannen dare come before
the public and say that formaldehyde,
boracic acid and salicylic acid have no
harmful effects and therefore that the
manufacturers of food products should
be permitted ito use the same until it
Is actually proven in the courts that
the Individual has been harmed by
eating of foods containing them. NO.
He is sufficiently sensible to know bet
ter than this. This is not the purpose
Tor which he is working. He knows
that saccharin is a fraud, that coal tar
dyes, even though some of them NAV
not be harmful, are used ito cover alp
fraud and make deception possible.
Then, why should not all laws be posi-
tive on this point, as in North Dakota,
and state THAT the use of these prod-
ucts is forbidden? He admits that the
law Is constituti onal, for he saws that
1t has been aintained by the supreme
court of the United States in similar
cases. More than THAT, If this specific
statement is made and the product
prohibited then the manufacturer cam,
nave no excuse for the use of snch
products in the preparation of foods.
knowing that the same would be dn
violation of law If the label tells the
TRUTH, as THE label should tell. the
whole TRUTH and nothing but the truth,
the manufacturer has no reason then
lot Claiming THAT the labelling of
giucose as maple syrup or honey was
not commercially wrong. He cannot
complain that he was not aware that
It was improper to label apple i,,iee
and glucose as cmrant jelly or that
ooracic acid and slllphdtes were dan
gerous 10 the health of the consumer.
Let us hope that the honest manufac-
ourer Will not be misled by such argu-
ments as have been put forth In this
ADDRESS before the National Grocers'
association. -. - - ~. "a