Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-03
PURE FOOD |N|ONANON
New Law Goes Into Eject First
of This Month and Much
Good is Expected
SONY EVILS TO BE CORRECTED
Law is Designed to Prevent Artificial
Coorine Of Foods and AduIteration
For Any Purpose Whatever-Pre-
servatives Are to Be Tabooed-Eacle
to Nature the Watchword.


to Nature the Watchword.
Des Moines, July 3.--Much of the ar
tificial celery and beauty of foods viii
disappear under the new pure fooo
laws of Iowa and the nation which &c
into effect today and July 4. All edible
and medicinal goods bought by retail
ers from this day forth must conform
called spade ana that all artificial
materials must be removed from food
stuffs. The law doesn't injure the
dealer; ii takes some of the sentiment
cut of shopping. 1t stops the sale OF
highly colored stuff and puts foods
back on the basis nature intended tney
should be put Above all, 1t makes the
manufactures tell the buyer what he is
getting for his money. 1t stops some
importations ana helps the home mar
ket to that extent.
Condensed cream is to be CONDENSED
milk; sap" syrup will suddenly be-
come scarce; new impromptu labels
will be placed upon many imported
goods by the jobbers. and altogether
much ingenuity Will be in evidence in
the effort to change gracefully from
bombast to statement OF
fact.
Hamburger today suddenly assum-
ed an unusually dull color in some of
the shops Gray looking bologna is
offered In place of the former brilliant
and fresh looking article. Some of the
shops have been wise enough to change
ahead of the times so as to avoid the
let to dull red.
Preservatives such as "F'reezeine"
have been generally used in sausage
and hamburger here. Not in quanti-
ties that were at all injurious, but the
law takes no cognizance of quantity.
a fact that will cause the grocers inn
grief before the year is
over.
Grandmother smoked the ham and
bacon, but the modern packer gets his
smoke from bottle, SO clever are we
moderns. And now the bottle of smoke
is to drop out of sight and bring back
the good old chimney smoke.
The fact that the law takes no cog
nizance Of the quantity of poison in.
food, but only of its presence. is the
snag that has caught the foreign goods.
Maraschino cherries. red, white and
Glue, must disappear These things
are bleached and practically dyed to
suit the fancy of the consumer.
The epicure who formerly carried
nome an expensive can of mushrooms
with foreign wording and the clerks
BEST wishes, will be surprised today to
ind the cheaper grades labeled stems
md pieces a fact formerly learned by
opening the can.
One of the most important articles
affected is French peas. The new law
will be a boon to Iowa farmers, wher-
good peas are grown. The foreign pea
mas been used for many years, bearing
he label. "artificially colored." Now
hey must change their tactics and
send an uncolored pea here-or none.
It does not matter that the coloring
natter has no dangerous effect on the
communicable coloring is of poi
'onous nature and the quantity mat
ers not All the grocers welcome this
,hange, with the possible exception of
/ few whose evident interest lies in the
,ther quarter. The sale of olive OF,
will be but little affected. The best
brands are pure and the limitations
lave been gradually changing to a Ia
rel that will permit the sale of their |
FOODS. Cottonseed oil must be marked |
Is such and salar dressings must bear I
label stating the nature of the con-
ents.
The general practice of adding sugar
o peas, corn and tomatoes must be
tated in the future and sacharine must
re eliminated.
Nearly all tomatoes are now colored. !
But from today they will begin to look
lex. Canned soups, catsups, sauces
nd preserves must use no coloring
natter deleterious to health, thus cut
ing out cochineal the time honored
id of the pure fruit" man.
Olives must be put up naturally. On
' the smaller poor grades are colored.
ut this is to be stopped
But the old joke of corn starch
ugar will go out of existence for sug-
r must now be at least sweet.
Just what solution the grocers will
nd for the old gag about Mocha and
ava for % cents a pound it is diff
llt to say. But a new name must he
sed or statistics juggled to correspond
, the enormous amount of Java now
opposed to be grown on little terri
Try not big enough to support ~
orehouses all the coffee supposed to
. grown there.
The old offer of 81, 600 for alum found
certain baking powder is proved
have been made by an excellent polk
player for the concern now prints
soda alum" on the cans, according to
w.
The trial of former Judge Hargis.
Fulton French, an attorney; former
neriff Ed. Callahan and others, on the
large of assassinating Lawyer James
arcam in Jackson three years ago,