The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-25
PIERCE GETS BACK
AT FOOD EXPERTS
PURE-FoOD ADVOCATE INSISTS
ON Law ENFORCEMENT.
Use Of Harmful Personalities Cannot
Be Defended, Even Tho Few Lives
Are Lost Opponents of Legislation
and Law Enforcement Invited to
Come Out Under True Colors.

Pure-food agitation is centered in
Minneapolis this week. Paul Pierce,
publisher Of What to Eat, the organ OF
many of the state pure-food depart
ments, and superintendent Of the pure.
food department. at the st. Louis expo.
sition, is here. 81 ttls@
In his position as national champion
Of the rights of the people in the war
on the adulteration and the adultera-
tors of foods, he has lately incurred
the animosity of certain health Off
GERS and certain food manufacturers
General, altho sensational, charges that
pure-food laws were not being enforced
have been resented by some Of them,
Pierce have followed him to Mime
apolis. Altho he came to the city to
look over his real-estate holdings and
to get away from business a few days,
he has had to take time to parry these
thrusts and to substantiate his posi-
tion. !.
y Exposure Of food frauds made two
years ago by Mr.. Pierce in widely
published interview with w. p. Curtis
OF newspaper fame, was looked upon
at that time as purely sensational. Re-
cent articles in leading magazines and
other public print have tended to show
that Mr.. Pierce IS stand was merely a
fearless statement Of the truth about
food frauds. ,@
Again Mr.. Pierce has been brought
to the center of the stage thru recent
public criticism of certain food officials
for failing to enforce pure-food laws
business interests. 5Altho this criticism
was general, DR.. Reynolds, head of the
Chicago board Of health, came out with
an attack on Mr.. Pierce, stating that
Dickens fat boy, "Joe," has turned
loose in the press again, and ridicul-
ing Mr.. Pierce s statements. s. F
In an interview today Mr.. Pierce
seemed to pinch the Chicago health Of
fcer. ~. ...a> . -. i 49,. ~
Belittles Adulteration.
CDR. Reynolds evidently finds con
genial company among that class Of our
citizens which believes that, food adul-
terations are little harmless cheats,
pocket thing wrong at all, only bus
mess methods. I gave it as my opinion
that 900 infants died in the United
States last year from bad feeding, I'M
sanitary conditions and poison foods,
and the estimate appears to me cohserv-
alive. Minneapolis people, watch your
milk supply. Look out for your baby IS
food.
"a high official Of the New York
health department. says: No doubt. if
we could get pure milk, mortality Of in
estimate is based on babies under two
years old in only one city. Take chill
dren under five, and what an alarming
mortality from bad feeding and poison
food. 49,. -. . -. 49,. .s.@@.s F. f y;
cit makes no difference whether for
maldehyde in milk kills 10000 or 1,0OO,-
900, if it kills single child s
awfully wrong, to put it in the
the milk. According to DR.. Reynolds
own admissions there were a large mum.
Der of deaths: in this country in 1904
Must Show Their Hands. rs
Mr.. Pierce says that both whisky fac,
tions must show their hands. They have
both been claiming that they were fo1
national food legislation, but one fac.
ton opposed the bill recently before the
United States senate, because it claimed
the whisky clause contained in the
bill was a virtual Endorsement Of one
kind of whisky, and that the whisky it
thus Endorsed might contain an exces
Slve amount of poisonous and deleter
ious matter.''n - 49, j. -,
eve purpose to give these whisky
factions an opportunity to prove theii1
interest in honest and fair pure food
legislation, - said Mr.. Pierce. "If they
are acting in good faith they can agree
On clause in the bill, that will protect
the consumer. The whisky interest that
opposed the pure food bill say they are
in favor Of label that will protect the
consumer, and 60 SO far as advocating
that the analysis be put upon the label
| hI1t thav want no 9TH o4i * Il
the same thing. We will also endeavo,
to force food interests which have beer
pretending to work for pure food legis
lation, but who have been workin&
against it in the dark, to come out ii
the open and show their hands. W,
realize that our fight is hard one. Man
ufacturers of adulterated foods ar,
many and powerful, and the vast CAPT
tai they haev behind them makes then
formidable foes. Then they fight us il
secret, while arrayed in our. rank
wearing our colors ~ %-a