New-York tribune., 1905-12-03
WANT PURE FOOD Law.
Mass Meeting Passes Resolution
asking Congress to act,

A meeting IN support Of pure food under the
auspices Of the New-York Section OF the Council
OF Jewish Women, held last evening IN Men
delssohn Hall. West 4Oth-st. The speakers were
w B. Hepburn. United States Senator from Idaho
and chairman Of the Senate Committee Manu-
sactures; P. ]. McCUmber. United States Senator
from North Dakota and a member Of the Com
rnittes on Manufactures; DR.. Harvey W. Wiley,
chief of the 81 reau of Chemistry, United States
Departments Of Agriculture; Nathan Strans DR..
Ernst J. Lederle, Major Louis L Seaman and Miss
Alice Lakey.
Senator Hepburn asserted that the person or cor
poration that puts On the market poisonous or
edulterated foods, medicines or beverages is as
guilty Of crime as the who places poison In
q spring. He said that public sentiment should
become aroused this matter that neither
the United States Senate nor the House Of Repre-
Hentatives could overlook its demands,
Senator AcCumber stated that S. 10000 600 worth
of adulterated products were purchased in this
country annually He said he believed the only
way TO remedy this condition by enacting q
national pure food law, and then with the CO.
operation Of pure food legislation by the various
States Of the Union the root Of the evil could be
reached. The Senator argued that unless the man
ofacturers and not the retailers were held re-
Eponsible nothing effective could be accomplished
DR.. Wiley also made earnest appeal for the
passage of a national pure food law.
Nathan Straus confined his remarks mainly to
the question of pure milk supplies Mr.. Straus said:
Recently met one of prominent butchers
condons Of the cows S that @ we're Brought to be
slaughtered for this market. Though he would not
allow his name he sent me the follow
Gng letter, which will read to you.
''On the 9th of this month We purchased III cows
At the stock yards 60th-st and North River. this
city. We slaughtered these COWS the same day
and found that twenty-seven had tuberculosis and
were condemned by the Bureau Of Animal In
Gustry. These COWS came from Nestchester
County.
Our experience in past years has been that out
of the bought in the local market here known
q s mich the number condemned by the Bu-
seau Of Animal Industry is about 10 per cent
Another fact which has recently come to my
farms in this State, stocked with high bred, regis
tered cows, than hundred had TO be killed
because they had developed consumption. This
occurred farm where TO my personal knowl-
where everything IS conducted most scientific
principles of sanitation. If had been asked: lis
there any milk brought 10 this market ht for use
sn its state?' 1 should have unhesitatingly
recommended the milk from this farm as the best
This proves to me conclusiTely that there Is no
milk at for general in its state.
I will now cita of public institution
sxhere the death rate Of children high that
st became public scandal. This Randalls
Island. Though the city had its own herd Of cows,
which were kept on the island, carefully tended and
apparently In perfect health they did not succeed
IN reducing the death rate below Al per cent. At
that time president Of the Board Of Health.
After I had resigned from this Office installed
In the very next year Of its operation the death
rate Of children made the astonishing drop Of from
a to % per cent Remember, there other
management OF this institution during this first
year, Last year the rate reQuced TO the still
lover figure Of 1916 per cent.
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