The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-25
PURE FOOD" SHOW
 SETS HOUSE AGAPE

cleverly contrived manufacture of tapioca colored with lamp black. This will be bitter news to a good many thousand people who have invested In individual pepper grinders with the idea that in that way they were secur- Ing an absolutely pure spice.
 When 1t came to handling the sam pies on the table the house, of course, was intensely interested and members shouted Down in front as If they were at theater.
 Cherries Fair But False shown.
 Possibly the most striking demon- stration was beautiful bottle or reu cherries It was explained that these cherries. which originally had been green, were b1eached out white oy tns use of a powerful acid and then nad been colored brilliant red by the use of aniline dye. which of course, IS 2 powerful and in fact deadly poison II used in large quantities.
 To complete the demonstration and to shock the members into remem- brance of their responsipility 70 tne people MT Mann exhibited a cotton cloth colored to brilliant red like the cherries from dye extracted from the juice in the bottles.
 There were half dozen cans of sup posed olive oil. Several of them bore apparently identical labels. and yet one would be genuine and the other counterfeit In many cases the coun- terfeit was merely good American cot ton seed oil. which makes perfectly satisfactory dressing for salad. and IS absolutely harmless. but which costs about one-fourth as much as real Italian oil. and less than one-fourth as much as California oil. One Of the bogus samples. 1t was asserted was mart of a lot which had been used ra..,,iarlx, bxr the ITnion League club in Philadelphia.
 Another olive oil fraud. which was attrctively put up. actually contained machine oil, and yet 1t has been soid extensively in the American market as the imported article.
 Among other curiosities was bot tie bought in the open market ana supposed to contain the clearest honey. The manufacturers of this sweet fraud, in order to fool the public. had in- serted real bee in the bottle to give the impression it had arrived there by mistake. Yet the whole mess was uh- adulterated glucose. and probably was never nearer a hive than some great ten story factory in New York or Chi- cago., Glucose, of course is not bad thing nor is it unhealthy. The only deleterious substance in the bottle was the bee. but it was put in to com plete the fraud.
 Meat Preservative Pure Poison.
 And then the Chicago representa- tive expatiated on the virtues of pres ervative for meat which manufactur- CTS guaranteed would work the same as the stuff used in great packing houses. It was said it has been used extensively by the smaller packers and by retailers who found their meat iia- ble to spoil for want of cold storage.
 It was given the suggestive name of "frezum" or something like that. MT. Mann admitted the stuff would pre- serve meat to certain extent, as 1t was claimed it would do, but he insist ed the preservative itself was actually poisonous It was made up of sul- phate of soda with red coal tar dye and could not be used safely upon hu- man food.
 One of the things which the pure food bill, as reported to the house, aims to do is to put stop to short weights and short measures. It requires that canned goods and similar articles, which are so put up they cannot be measured at the time of retail sale, shall contain on the label an approxi- mate statement of the actual weight or measure at the time they were put up. This amendment was offered by Mir, Mann himself in committee, and he naturally fortified himself on this sub 1ects ana to Booo Pui PoSe, .A- eannerles all over the United States have been opposing this particular amendment with great vehemence.
 They have insisted vegetables and fruit vary in weight according to cli- mate and seasonal influences and it would be unfair to require them to des- ignate an exact weight for their cans without some allowance for natural shrinkage or variations in weight due to the different character of vegetables and fruit at different times and under different conditions.
 Local Grocer Is shown Up. To meet this argument MT. Mann overwhelmed the house, much to its delight, with e whole series of cans of fruits and vegetables. They were of all sizes ani weights and the climax was capped when three cans, purchas-