The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09
WHAT THE AGE OF BAKERY
 HAS DONE FOR OUR FOOD

Hail to the age of fakery, supreme ruler of ail--poiitics, press and pulpit. law, medicine, society, economies and morality! The nineteenth century. stopping over even into the twentieth. will go down in history as the fake century Everything tnaS can be cheapened, twisted and strained 10 enable & man at peril of his souTs salvation to put one dollar into trade and get back forty has been thus cheapened and twisted and strained. What does q man care for putting his fake soul in pawn when he thinks ne can redeem it cheaply by investing few of his fake gotten millions ah philanthropy or fake educationY
 What made me think of this is reading what the women of the Con. sumers league and the womens ciups did to force the passage Of the pure food bill through Q persisteniy hoio- back congress. It was mighty inter estinR reading. I assure you, especiai- ly as it included list of those sea- ators and representatives who fought the pure food bill tooth and nall You would be surprised at that list, really. It included especially senators away up in the high seats as to their SO cial and religious standing. Tney stood for vested nterests"-intsrests Us vested in aniiine dyed tomatoes, de- orderized bad eggs and literally em- balmed beef.
 Lucky for that antique chappie 10; years old who says he owes his lons life to correct habits, religion ano good whisky, that he was born anu had his start before the fake centurs | got under full swing. If he hadn V | if he had got his bringing up on suci whiskey as many men drink today ! he would have been done for long err he reached his prime.
 May s1. when the General Fedora tion of Women's Clubs was meetins at St. Faul, one day in the midst ol a session a telegram was brought te Mrs. Miller of Columbia, Mo- chair' man of the federation's pure food com mittee. She conferred ar once witf the president, Mrs. Sarah Platt Deck CT. and Mrs. Decker interrupted thu order of business and said Mrs. Millel had an announcement to make. Mrs Miller rose, telegram m hand, ana said:
 "I have just received messag' from WashingtoD that the pure foot bill is dying in the House of Repre- sentatives. There is not mother o home maker in this country who Il l not interested in the passage of thi bill. No measure Of more vital inter est to the home has ever been ore eented to the national legislature. l we are to do anything to save thi
 measure we must act at once"
 Well, 1t was not ten minutes till telegam was on it's way to Chairmal Hepburn at Washington asking him t
 read in the lower house of congress
 resolution from the federation. whic
 represented 300,000 women. earnestl
 urging the legislators % pass tha
 pure food bill at once, fin the interee
 of the health or the people and or Tn international reputation of the Amer lican people for honesty
 At the same time wires were kep
 hot between St. Paul and towns al
 over the union telling stay at hom
 club women to send to the nationa
 house telegrams of peremptory insis
 tence on the passage of that bill
 Nearly every club woman who kneN
 congressman bestirred herself an fired into him telegrams declaring D must vote for that bill or take tn conseauences Well. at the close C the Washington show, just before tn long session of the Fifty-ninth con eress gave It's last kick, mark vol
 that pure food bill went through wit
 a hurrah!
 Now its up to the men. our ruler | to see that it is enforced.
 The Consumers league, Mrs. Free
 erick Nathan. its president, at tn