Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-05
OUR DOCTORS
Gather at Boston From
All Over the Country
Have as Guests Some Dis
tinguished Foreign Brethren.
The Prepared Meat Evil and Pure Food
Opponents Scored.

BOSTON. June i.-ResoIlltion declaring
that tho selection and preparation Of
meat fer the American and foreign
markets are serious menace to the
public health and warmly scoring the
opposition to the passage of the pure
food bill. were unanimously adopted
today by the House of Delegates of the
American Medical Association which
will bs gin its annual meeting in this
city tomorrow.
The resolutions regarding pure food
and the meat packing industry were
presented to the House of Delegates in
the annual report of Charles A. l.. Reed
of Cincinnati. chairman of the legisla-
tive committee. In introducing them.
Mr.. Reed said:
mo legislator can explain his oppo-
sition to the measure (the pure food
and drug hiln on any theory consistent
with either intelligence or honesty
This fact becomes All the more import
and. all the more significant when the
character of tn" opposition is taken into
account. an opposition which, without
execution. is made up of people inter
ested in manufacturing and selling rot
ten ard poisonous foods and liquors
with which to make the well sick, and
to make the sick scker These people,
the Very vuItures of society. possessed
of enormous sum of ill-gotten money.
are organized into Il powerful lobby
whose methods stop with no scheme Of
corruption. Their boast. unblushiIgly
made under the roof Of the Capitol at
Washington. is that they represent over
500. COO 600 and that the pure food aud
drug bill simply shall not pass.
'''Thc Senate has passed this bill There
is no doubt but that a large majority
of the House favor it if they can only
he given chance to vote on it. Why is
this chance not given? Where is the re-
sponsibility for the holdup? At this mo
ment it lies between the chairman of
the subcommittee having it in charge.
committees on rules and the Speaker
if indeed. the order ought not to be re-
versed.''
The resolutions as resented by Dr.
Reed and adopted unanimously are in
part as follows:
"WhcreaS, The revolving methods re
Gently revealed by both private and
governmental inquiry to exist in con
ncCtion with the selection and prepare
ton of meat for the American and for
eign markets are Il serious menace to
the public health. and
"Whcrels, The impurities demon
strat@G by government experts and hv
the bureau of chemistry and pharnia-
cy If tho Amer ican Medical Associa-
ton to exist in numerous other food
products, in noStr'1mS purVeyod ia the
public and IN remedies prescribed to the
sick, comprise even more serious men,
aces to tn" public welfare. Therefore.
be il
"Royolved. That the American M",li-
b"rShip of more than 10000 physicians
and representing the organized medical
profess ion in 2a00 Of the $50 counties
Of til" United States. view with satiS-
faction the efforts nf tho administration
and of the Congress to protect the
American public against adultcratcd
foods aud impure drugs. and to purge
on! commerce. domestic and foreign. Of
fIauduls ut products.
"E"gnlvrd. That the House of Repro
s"ntativcS be ana is hereby earnestly
p"titinucd to- plaC" til" pending pure
foo" and drug hill on its passage during
til" present week.