Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-08-11

The Beef Trust is all powerful u
Congress.
Seventeen years ago the first pure
food bill was introduced In the Sen.
ate, and 1t has been debated of and
OIL ever SINCE"
With this introduction Henry
Beach Needhnm tells In Worlds
Work the amazing story of the delays
to the pure food bill In the United
States Senate as an Illustration Of OBJ.
structlve methods.
1t will enable the millions Of con.
simers of food to understand why
the United States Is the only civil.
lied country which does not possess q
national food law. 1t will enable
them to appreciate the difficulties
which now confront the Hepburn bill
during the present session Of the
United Sfates Senate, the only meas
ure, according to the best authorities,
that there IL any hope Of passing.
EVERY American workman" says
Mr.. Needham, 1T Ii fair to assume.
Is interested vitality In securing for his
family what he earns by the sweat Of
his brow--pure food and pure drugs.
"When one pays for wholesome ar.
tlcles he does not care to receive bud
coffee. glucose syrups, coal tar jellies,
spurious whlskeys, adulterated drugs,
ana imitation favorlng extracts. One
does not want Goldfish sausages or
green hams, smoke cured all pre-.
served with boracic acid; New Or.
leans inolasses' or honey composed
largely Of glucose; olive oil, In reality
cotton seed oil; pure raspberry jelly
manufactured from glucose mixed with
citrlc acid and coal tar dye.
III the State cannot protect the In.
dividual against such swlndling-and
the state commissions confess their
impotence-one naturally looks to the
Federal government for protection and
to his representative In Congress to
provide statutory means for such pro.
lection. How has the welfare. the
health. and longevity Of the 100000
Americans been conserved by Con.
grcss?"
The Beef Trust 10 making q hard
Inv.
The following II from a Washington
dispatch to the Chicago Tribune, Feb.
,, 1906:
Recently this opposition has taken
an extremely dangerous turn. The PEG.
pie who are behind It realize that there
II general demand throughout the
country for national Legislation on this
subject. They do not dare to fight II
outright. therefore. and SO they are
combining their attention In an effort to
destroy the value Of the law when II In
enacted and to make It difficult II not
impossible Of execution.
"There are now on the statute books
Of many States, particularly In the
north, laws which II enacted would 60
a long ways toward disposing Of the
impure food products which are now
flooding the markets OF the country to
a notorious degree. In Illinois. for In.
stance, there Is law which, II hon.
estly executed, would put an end to the
vast amount Of frauds practiced upon
the people. The law, however, Ia to a
large extent dead letter and the I'LL.
nOis food commissioner Ii said to have
become an offensive partisan In the
movement to break down national legls.
latlon on this subject. Honest advO'
Gates here Of pure food law are as
tOnished that Gov. Deneen should per-
init any Illinois official to take stand
In public which manifestly Is In opposi
ton to the best interests of nine-tenthf
Of the people Of the State Of Illinois
"The anti-pure food lobby here In
Washington, which has Its headquar
tiers ut the Willard Hotel, and which
apparently Is supplied with an unlimit
ed amount Of money, seems to have
come to the conclusion that some kind
OF a pure food law is inevitable ut thi'
session OF Congress. They are there
fore bending all their energies to breal
down or minimize the effect Of such
law when passed"
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People who eat freely Of prepared Of
canned food consume at least forty
doses Of poison day, according to thu
statement Of r. NJ. Patterson. assistant
State food commissioners for Illinois
who addressed the National Associa
ton Of Retail Grocers at Niagara Falls
IN. Y.
Not oplv die NJ. Peterson condemn
Ii. u.. sf capn>S .s~1s. which hi char
acterixed impure and unwholesome, bu
he declared that illness and death, du'
to toxic Infection, are becoming Yer,
common and much OF Il may be traced
to the use of foods that have beer
kept In cold storage. not only fowl
but fish. vegetables, fruits, etc.
Nothing" said Mr. Patterson. III
more certain than that It 10 great
mistake to suppose that cold storage
permanently arrests the process Of de
cay. Food placed In cold storage un
dersoes chemical changes that make Il
extremely dangerous W should have
. law In this country 70 protect oul
people from this dangerous condition
4 menu prspsrsd n NJ. Pattsrsor