Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-04

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 that hams msy be smoked while y wait One witness testi6ed that 1
 house used . patent smokeF for u1an
 ing smoked hams. This is . soet IT
 paint, with which the ham is smea1e4
 giving 1t the appearance of havtuG
 been cured in the dear old smoEo.
 house at home. as your grandmother
 used to do It.
 Directly as tasnlt of pr. Wileys0
 Investigations some very astounding
 facts regarding the true identity Of tho stun we put into our stomachS from day to day have been brought to light. Just one item will suffice here. Your stomach may be too weak to stand
 more The patient and long suffering mule that pulls the garbage cart past your door is more important than he looks. Do not scorn him. Next year he may be silent, alas, in death, and you may be eating his hoofs metamorphos- ed -stupendous change!- Unto pure ap- pie jelly" or -pure peach marmalade. i" But the fact that you are eating tho hoofs of the defunct mule is not the most serious part of the proposition. The coloring matter used to deceive you into mistaking prepared mule hoof for a peach or apple product is the se- rious thing. That Is what do6s tho damage.
 pr. Wiley has estimated and declax~ ed that about 90 per cent of the man ufactured foods sold in America con- tain deleterious substances introduced for the purpose of deceiving the public as to the true character of the product "Barnum made a colossal fortune" re. marked Dr. Wiley on recent occasion. "by acting on the principle that tho American people like to be humbugged- To be cheated, fooled, bambo0zled, e. joled, deceived, pettifogged, dema- gogued, hypnotized. manicured and chiropidized are privileges dear to us all"
 Even the operation of the new food law, if rigidly enforced, will not rob i the AmeNcan people of their cherished privilege of being humbugged if they continue to believe the statements Of some manufacturers that certain drugD i. are good for their health, but the law . will reduce the humbuggery very ap- preciably by insisting upon the proper labelling of all products, so that if one wants pure apple jelly he may buy . jar so labeled and If he prefers mule hoof he may go around looking for . label to indicate the animal
 It should be remembered that tho new law relates not only to food, but to liquors and medicines, SO that there must be government inspection of ev- erything that goes down the human gullet provided that 1t is sold from state to state and thereby comes un- der the head of interstate commerce.
 Uniform Food Law.
 Dr. Wiley worked as hard for this uniform food law as many estimable clergymen are working for uniform divorce law. As matter of fact, tho situation regarding food is pretty much the same as that regarding divorce. Each state has its own laws relating to food and to divorce. There are forty six states and 5forty-six variations In divorce possibilities. Until the passaoo of the federal food law the manufac- turers of some food products wero compelled to place 6 different label 0o their goods for every state to which shipment was made. When the na- tional law gets into active working o. der one label will serve for each state. and thnt label, if the government in- spectors do their duty, will tell exaGt2y what the package contains.
 The fight for pure food law h eunr gress lasted nearly twenty years. D.. Wiley says the eohsumers started lk aided by the granges Then somo e the honest manufacturer took lt - and finally some state oGacialA weo urged a federal law. Of courDs t1no proposed legislation was bitterly op- posed by interruptions manufactwogD ! of cmbalmed foods. doped medicinaD and prcmatursly aged whiskiss. but tho .awakened consciencer of tho peop1o along various lines at last bFu1u1e lbout the enactment of tho present 1AWs which gives excellent promise e foo4 reform after 1t goes Into effect Jan q
 Dr. Wiley, who Is . native of b. 1iana, in his sixty-second year. hag never found time to eef married HnD life since early manhood has bssa c. roted undividedly to chemistry. Al . bachelor his remarks concerning coooED may be of interest to married poopeA Bays Dr. Wiley: We have tho msge abundant and best foods oslthe wuE11. put VIC live more poorly, tkzn any ocnr F civilized nation. We have the wor1e cooks and know least bow to eet eno most out of our foods. Cooking ig look- d down upon hese. ft should be coo- Iidered one Of ths inc srts, and . cook 'hould command high saIary. kmsw 'amilIes in Washington who live af ulo ate of $500 or $l0.0o0 . ysar eD9 who nevertheless win get some .. ,ornnt woman to spnIl thelr victna1A rhey win spend thousands of dol1nf8 n thcir tables and waste lt al1 V on the cook"
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