Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1906-03-08

ed wherever the use Of pressrvatives
had been permitted. 10 North Da.
kota. In . single year after tbs use
Of preservatives had been stopped.
The number Of deaths had increased
nearly sixty per cent. In Berlin,
Germany, under thesa conditions,
The death rate increased seventy
two per cent. RI Chicago, where
the use of presarvatives Is steadily
increasing. the death rate has drop.
ped from 707 per 10000 population
il 1890 TO 347 per 10000 al the pre-.
sent time, more than one half
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Personalities are never added to
food to adulterate Il. nor to keep Il
while il is canned or bottled, as the
case may be. Their solo use Is to
keep the food from developing germs
after the package has been opened
and exposed to the air. and II this
were not done everything would be.
come dangerous TO health unless
used Immediately upon opening. A
bottle Of catsup will often be on d
table for month after opening be.
fore being used up. Without a TIL.
fie Of benzoate 81 soda Il would soon
before germ infected and spoil
Nature realizes this. for In every
fruit and berry will be found either
benzoic or saIIcyIIc acid. and we
have been eating shem for centuries
without harm. There Is no more
reason why we should object 70 or.
binary preservatiyes than there is
for US 70 object to common salt, for
that Is just what salt is. and exactly
what It is used for, and there is not
the slightest scientific evidence
In The world that preservatives in
the quantities used ipjnre our health
or bodies Ia the slightest degree,
while science has demonstrated that
properly used they savenumberiess
lives each year,
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While II IL true that tho average
Democrat 10 Congress SHES nj the
name Of o shin subsidy bin like .
moon.eyed horse AZ d black stump,
simply because The last two bills
before the Congress we're great
grabs and nothing else. they have
no right 70 shy at the one now be-
fore the Congress and which rocen-
lly passed the Senate and nov is
before the House. ItouRhi 10 pass
10 the interest Of ihe merchants and
manufacturers and the farmers Of
the country. II has no politics 10
Il and il has been indorsed BY al.
most avery trade Organization 10 tho
country. notably BY The cotton
growers associations Of The South.
eru states We nov are depending
on foreign ships 10 carry o5 per
cent. of our trans. Atlantic business
because those countries are ship
owning aud shin buIlding countries
aud they have built up their ship
ping Interests b. the use 81 sub
sides. Those countries require
our cotton. wheat, corn. cattle and
provisions and they send tbrIr
ships TO our ports for the goods
they reed. thus Incidentally
providing facilities for our European
import trafiic. but when wo turn 10
our trade with Asia. Africa. Central
aud South America. and Australasia
we fad that conditions are radically
different Unlike the chief Euro
pean nations, they are not shipown-
Ing lands
We require from them a great
quantity Of imports, especially nrti.
Giles Of food and raw materials for
our manufacturers, and the great
bulk 81 these goods arc On The tariff
free list
But these countries. unlike Eu.
rope. have no ships Of their Owl 10
deliver all this needful merchandise
in orr own ports, and, Of course,
they do not supply the ships thai
are required for the proper expan.
sion Of our export commerce totheIr
own ports. For this service both
ways the United States Is now de-
pendent almost altogether on the
surplus or inferior shipping Of Eu.
rope. The European powers grant
liberal subsidies 10 maintain great
steam lines from their own ports 10
Asia, Africa. Central and South
America. and Australasia. but they
do not. lfthey can help II, allow any
81 their subsidies 10 be utilised FOR
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