Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-02-11
ENDORSES HOUSE BILL NO, "a
e. Z. LADD, FOOD COMMISSIONER,
ENDORSES THE BILL IN AN \
III OPEN LETTER. .s9
SAME BILL is ENDORSED At
SIXTH DISTRICT MEDICAL so. y
& t'ssa's ciETY MEETING. sss

Y e . Y : II
the recent meeting Of the Sixth Judi
lcial Medical society in this il city is |
further endorsed by Pure Food Com
missioner Ladd in the following open
letter to the public. published III the
Fargo Forum: ~.
"A strong effort is being. made to
prevent the passage Of H. B. ~, intro
duced by Mr.. Sweet, the same being
a bill for an act to prevent the adult
Grafton OF drugs or medicines. The
state is being flooded with circular
letters and kilograms in. an effort to
try and defeat the enactment of this
bill into aalaw. The aoppositionfseems.
to come principally from manufac-1
turers Of patent medicines and liquor
dealers. They have succeeded in
frightening many honest druggists In
to believing that. the bill is a danger
Gus one. ses" 'sb&A8 Gssss ~ qssssg =
zLetgus analyze thea statements made
in opposition TO the bill, and II they
summarize themselves under four
heads. ~ 9~za@
~. It lis. claimed that the formula
Of all patent medicines and proprie-
tary products would have to be given
and so enable druggists to prepare
these products and ruin the business
Of the manufacturers. %,s = aF7 @5's
2. They state that it would stop all
advertising by patent medicine man
ufacturers in the local papers of the
state. H%E &'f&s5ta~ IT'D &&tE2Fy
g. They claim that if the bill
passes it will be impossible for the
people to secure the common home
remedies from their local druggist. n
4. The passage of this bill would
ruin the druggists of the state and
drive many Of them out of business.
Let us go step farther and see if
these statements are correct.
1. The bill does not require the
publishing of a formula. Such a
thing is not intended. All it requires
Is that where a medicine or product
contains choral hydrate, ergot, NOR
phine or opium, or their derivatives,
cocaine or its salts, bromides, iodides
OF their salts, or ethyl alcohol in
greater quantity than 5 per cent, the
name of the constituents above men
toned shall be clearly shown on the
label together with the per cent. In
order that there may be no misunder-
standing on this point have suggest
ed to the introducer of this bill that
slight change be made so as to pre-
vent any possible misconceptions. The
clause will then read "Shall be clearly
labeled in black open Gothic letters
printed on white background, show
ing the true name and per cent of
each of the foregoing constituents"
Thus inserting the word foregoing"
q. That the manufacturers would
withdraw from, the state and : stop
advertising was claimed by those op-
posed to the pure food law, but have
they done this: Not at all. Every
man who found his goods to comply
with the law or could get them to
comply with the law has pushed them
all the stronger and makes great
deal of the fact that they are in COM
pliance with the law. The patent med
icine men will do exactly the same
thing. ~ Lit.ls s.... s .-.... .-.
/ 1T would be a good thing, in my
judgment, if some of the glazing
frauds could be driven from the state
and I sincerely hope that if the bill
be enacted into law it will make
these products less plentiful. 1t will
probably unmask some of the "bitters'
now so largely sold and which, in my
Judgment, are nothing but "booze."'
This bill would not effect any legiti-
mate medicine. b., Il
8. The people will be able to get
from the local druggist any remedy
that they are accustomed to use, un-
der the terms Of this law, the same as
they have been able to do with food
products under the pure food law. The
people will come to know, however,
what some of the products contain.
III 4. No sensible man believes for a
moment that the enforcement of a
pure drug law would ruin any drug
gist any more than. the enforcement
Of the pure food law has ruined any
grocery man In the state. / have
not asked for feature in H. B. ~
that | do not sincerely believe is for
the best interest Of all the people Of
North Dakota. / am confident that
the enforcement Of this law would
work no hardship on any honest
manufacturer or producer Of patent
medicines and proprietary products
more than the pure food law has done
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