Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-09
The NEED Of PURE
FOOD Law SHOWN
State Dairy Commissioner
Wright Gets Information on
Adulteration of Foods
BILL BEFORE LEGISLATURE
BILL BEFORE LEGISLATURE
Representative Cummings Of Marshall
County Will Introduce Measure in
tho House at the Coming Session
Proposed Provisions of the Primary
Law.-other News.
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Des Moines, Dec 9.-State Dairy
Commissioner III. r. Wright says he
finds that great many people over the
state have some information of the
subject of adulterated foods. He has
picked UP information in the most out
of the way places and has no doubt
that tire experience of citizens of the
state would be of value to the legis-
lature this winter II 1t could be col ;
lected. Mr.. Wright was out making
addresses at farmers institutes last
week and at one place he was asked
to speak on pure foods. The boy who
worked on the curtain on the stage
asked him if he was the man to talk
on pure foods and learning that he was
tod him that the travelling salesman
for packing house when in the
butcher shop the other day Informed
the proprietor that he carried two
grades of sausage meat. One was the
regular" sausage meat and the other
was pure food" sausage meat. MIR.
Wright professed ignorance and the
boy went on to explain that the trav-
cling salesman had explained that the
pure food" sausage meat was for
states that had pure food laws The
other meat was for the other states.
The regular sausage meat was MICA
ly colored and doctored with formal
dehyde and other preservatives and
was far better looking than the "pure
food" meat The meat was the same
N each instance the only difference in
the brands being that one was pre-
served with poisons and the other wa 8
the gAnuine meat. The regular
weuld of course keep longer and for
that reason was more in demand by the
butchers. 1t would also sell better
with the ignorant public for the reason
that the public Judging largely from
the color and appearances readily
takes that which is doctored up with
artificial coloring matter than the
pale colored but unadulterated saus-
age.
There will be conference In the
agricultural rooms Tuesday Of the
committee of the State Agricultural
Society which has such matters In
charge with officers Of the state
grocerS association and Hon. b. F.
Cummings Of Marshalltown, and SEN
ator Byron w. Newberry Of Straw
berry Point. At this conference the
bill to be presented at the session of
the legislature Which opens next
month will be discussed and possibly
outlined. Mr.. Cummings will intro
duce the bill in the house and Senator
Newherry will introduce it in the
senate.
The provision that has been discuss
ed to some extent in this state Of re-
During first and second choice ex-
preston at primary elections in order
to secure the wish Of as large a per
cent of the people as possible, may be
incorporated in the new law in Wis
consin. It Is learned that In his mes
sage to the legislature Governor La
Folle.te suggests that provision be
made, by amending the law, so as to
enable the voter at the primary to
indicate upon the ballot his first and
second choice Of the candidate present.
ed for each office. In the event that no
candidate had received majority of
the first choice votes, then the second
choice votes could be counted, result
ing in q nomination by majority vote.
The plan recommended Is that used in
Australia and provides that If, after
the ballots have been counted no can
dldate has an absolute majority Of the
first choice votes, then the ballots cast
for the candidates receiving the least
number Of votes on the list are as
sorted with reference to second
choices as to the remaining .candi-
dates. If no one then receives ma
jority Of first and second choice bal
lots, similar assortment Of ballots
Of the lowest remaining candidate is
made on the basis Of second choice and
added to the votes for their candidates,
and so on until some candidate has a
majority Of first and second choices.
With this amendment the governor
thinks the primary law would be much
stronger.
Just what the outcome Of the strike
in the Iowa Printing Companys shop
will be is still problematic. The leg
islature fixed the rate for composition
some. years ago when the printers
worked ten hours and received $12 a
week The wages have gone up to SIG
Il week and the day has been cut down
to nine hours. Now the printers want
s1s a week and an eight-hour day. I'm
der the present legal limit to be paid
for composition the employers claim
they are up against it. There are
plenty of printers had at the Iowa
Printing Company plant, but they are
new men. The old men, many of them.
have worked in the office for years and
were thoroughly familiar with all the
details Of the work. 1t will take some
time to adjust the new men to the work
and the inconvenience is the greatest
drawback and about the only one in the
situation at present, but not of nature
that any of the printing will be delay
ed. State Printer Bernard Murphy was
sent for. There was an attempt to