The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31


longest time proportional to the cost,
rather than by any purity Of ingredi-
ents. The argument was elaborated
that all the component parts of any
paint were more or less impure, also
that the law was unconstitutional In
that 1t provides for pure materials
when there is no such thing known
and practically prohibits the manufac-
ture of paints.
Again the law is unjust in that it
does not fix the proportions in which
the ingredients are to be mixed.
While a paint may have all of the re-
quired ingredients, 1t may be so mixed
as to be worthless and yet it would
pass muster with the law.
Warm Time Precipitated.
At the conclusion of Mr. Coffin's pa
per. he was at once applied with a
series of questions by H. T. Helgesen
of Milton, treasurer of the association.
Mr.. Coffin explained that he was but.
the reader OF communication and
that he hadNno right to answer Ques-
lions and declined to be moved in the
least by the ieers of the opposition
However, the knights of the grip who
were present were not SO careful about
exceeding orders and a war of words
ensued. Everybody talked at once
and there were many things doing at
once. AS soon as man got the floor
he was created with laughter and
shower of questions.
Prof. l.add Gets Busy
DR.. E. +. Laid. state pure food In
spector and instructor in the Agricul-
tural college at Fargo, was called on
for his paper. AS he took the floor ne
took decided fall out of the big and
dun" representative of the paint;
trust. He announced that he had no
great paint trust back of him nor any
masters to tell him when to keep still
and when to open his mouth" He
asked the paper question: since
the man could not talk. If these
cheaper ingredients made as good
paint as those prescribed by the North
Dakota law, why was it that 20 per-
cent of the buildings in North Dakota
were of a faded white or drab Fifteen
percent more of them showed the ear
marks of inferior paint. He sneered
at the notion that the paints made by
the companies which were fighting the
law were not less expensive. He
charged the paper with being crafty
ana misleading and quoted from the
or 1t and quoted him in direct contra
diction of his statements in the paper
Prof. Ladd said that the comparison
just made regarding the bulletin of
the Agricultural college was point
in question, the comparison was un-
Just and unfair, an inside paint was
compared with an outside paint and
not paints of the same grade.
III the law Is weak and Prof Ladd
did not pretend 1t was perfect, it would
be amended. The publications of the
bulletins would be death blow to the
order house people and besides the
courts had not held that paint could
tnus be shipped in. 1t had not been
done under the pure food law and It
would not be done under the pure
paint law.
How the Trust Was Headed or.
Prof. Ladd explained that some CT
MS exhibits We're not very complete.
The paint combination sought an in
junction sometimes since, in which
they We're to ask the United States to
enJoln the state from publishing these
same bulletins. To head of this move.
Prof. Ladd published the bulletins be-
fore they were all complete but the
doubts had all been in favor of the
poor paint and the completed ANALYSIS.
would be used in court.
| Frog. Ladd said that he had not re-
ce1ved cent for his work in connec-
ton with the pure paint law. The
legislature had not seen fit to make an
appropriation to carry out the provis-
ions of the law and he was helping
to pay the expense of the fight against
the paint trust. If the Agricultural
college had to enforce the pure paint
law as they had the pure food law.
they would do it.
Rubbed 1t In.
AS soon as Prof. Ladd had finished.
and it seemed to be the impression of
the audience that his able paper, the
full text of which appeared in yester-
days issue of The Evening Times.
completely laid out the efforts of tic
paint trust. Mr.. Helgeson, who had
been laughed and scoffed off the floor.
took the platform and proceeded to
run IN the strong arguments made Nv
Prof. Ladd. He wondered why it was
that If the paints which contained
other ingredients than those provid ID
by the law, why they were afraid of a
label. He told the travelling men that
he had handled paint for years and
would be yet handling it when th.y
would be out on the prairie hunting
another job. He said several sarcas-
NC things about Mr.. Coffin and his
silence. 'regretting that the paint
trust had not seen fit to send a man
along with their paper" He dwelt at
length on this and other evasive and