Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-18
Complaint Registered Against
Pure Food Law Is a Rather
Novel One
IOWA JoBsERs GET THE BENEFIT
Because Outside Wholesalers Can't
Give q Valid Guarantee, II Is Fig
ursd That Iowa Will Secure a Mon
opoly Of tho Sales to Retail Dealers
-Hremer Takes Advantage Of Law.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republlcan.
Des Moines, Dec. 1S.-A serious OBJ
lection has been raised to the new
Iowa pure food law in q southern Iowa
town where 1t is claimed that the prac-
teal operation Of the law will be to
force Iowa retail grocers to buy OF
Iowa manufacturers and jobbers. The
reason for this is found in the fact
that an Iowa jobber can give to the re-
taller guaranty that will insure him
against loss by reason Of the possible
operation of the law, while the Iowa
law cannot in any way follow back to
the outside jobber shipment Of goods
and make him responsible for failure to
comply with the law. The southern
Iowa retailer figures 1t out that this
practically gives the Iowa manufacture
ers and jobbers a monopoly of the bus
mess. Some care was taken In the
framing Of this bill, 1t may be said, to
avoid that discrimination, but there
are good many Iowa people who
stand ready to assert that discrim-
nation Of the kind mentioned is not
such a bad thing after all. One other
effect of the law about which COM
plant might be made Is that this law,
along with some others and the new
national law, has driven Sears, Roe
buck & Co. out of the business Of re-
tint oViaes l,1y, iS OF
that this drm,.. typical Of the mail Or
der houses of Chicago, has announced
that on January it will cease selling
groceries by mail. The fact is that
the pure food laws are largely directed
at the mail order business, which Is
known to thrive on authorizations and
cheap stuff.
1t remained. for the people Of Bremen
county to be first to take advantage of
the law passed eight years ago under
which companies may be organized in
Iowa to manufacture sugar from Iowa
grown beets without being forced to
pay big fee for. Incorporation. Some
years ago company was organized
with big capital and offered it's ar
ticles of incorporation under the beet
sugar exemption, but the filing was
refused. The fact is the company had
prepared articles so broad In nature
that it could transact almost any kind
Of business 1t is held that where the
exemption from the fling fee applies
is where a company is authorized only
to engage in beet sugar making and
that from beets grown in Iowa. The
new Waverly company is of this class
and thus avoids the payment OF $500
fee. tits stated that the new company
intends to seriously undertake beet
sugar making, and there is no doubt Of
success.
The fact that Governor Cummins has
gone to Washington while congress is
in session will probably be the occa-
sion for a rumor that he is trying to
influence legislation that he Is going
to have the tariff reformed or that he
purposes taking hand in the distribu-
ton of federal patronage. His trip to
Washington, however has none Of
these things for it's purpose; but it is
that he may find out just what por-
lions Of the Iowa war claims in con-
nection with the equipment Of Iowa
troops to fight for Cuba have been al
lowed by the war department SO that
he can make distribution Of the mon
ey This money does not go directly
into the state treasury, but is to be
distributed by the governor.