Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1906-09-26
BENEFITS FROM PURE FOOD SHOWS.

For many years reputable grocerymen throughout
the United States have been trying to stop the sale
of adulterated and deleteTous food products The eff
fort while successful in many states is just about to
crystalline in the passage of the National Pure Food
Law by the present congress- which is deliberat-
ing the Hepburn bill. The grocers, with the
aid of the public spirited men and women Of this
country, have suppressed the impure food evil to
some extent but the American manufacturers are so
quick and inventive that they hardly get thing
stopped when they have half a dozen others, equally
good to substitute for the former authorizations.
The object of pure food shows" is to educate and
familarze the merchant the housewife and the gen.
eral public to the standard of purity in lfe's
saries. The information obtained is propagated
throughout the land, and the average housewife is
taught the art of selecting what is good. 1t is the
concensus of opinion that "doctored" groceries are
not cheap at any price. There many impure
foods sold in Galveston and other parts of the world
that legislation has been forced protect the people
from the INSCRIPTIONS manufacturers.
There many places used by certain manufactu-
for a dumping ground for their adulterated
goods which cannot be sold in states that have
ed pure food laws, consequently 49,
found for the outlawed product
The proposed legislation WI
pure foods, regardless of G,
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pending in congress- and it is possible Attorney
Brewer will make the local law more severe,
as to prevent the sale of all aduterated and deleer-
ious foods.
Every person visiting the show indicates by her
his presence there they IRE in sympathy with the
pure food cause 1t is taken for granted that they
are in favor of the adoption of laws that prolong
their ves-one that forever stop the sale of such
articles as cannot pass the proposed Pure Food law.
BY giving the Pure Food show champoning
the movement, which should appeal to every man,
and child because it is bound to affect them.
1t is the object of the Pure Food show to teach the
retail grocers and the public generally the value of
pure food law. The organization is doing everything
in its power to suppress the adulteraton of food
stuffs by the legislature and congress- to the
evils existing The grocers of this city have always
tried to sell good goods they could sell their
honor, but manufacturers, without regard to
the safety Of the people, have practically compelled
the grocerymen to handle the impurities because
there was way to avoid them. The retailer also
has no way of determining the ingredients of any
preparation without a chemical analysis This is
sidered mpractcable from the grocers point of view,
but correction of the evil lies in the hands of the
lawmakers to whom the people look for their protec
ton.
The supporters Of the pure food movement agree
that state laws all right and effective 70 some
tent, but what is required is National pure food
law. A powerful lobby has been maintained at
Washington to prevent the passage of the Hepburn
bill. which originated in the senate fifteen years ago,
and only recently passed that body by the decisive
vote Of sc to l. One of the votes cast against it
by U. S. Senator Murphy J. Foster of Louisiana.
Pure foods cannot be sold cheaply. They
bound to bring more than adulterated Articles but
the difference in the price is so small no should
accept the impure goods. slight advance in the
selling cost is a good investment and should be borne
in mind every time Pure red pepper costs 30 cents
per pound, therefore pure red pepper cannot be
sold for 10 per pound. The adulterated article
is made out of red cedar dust and is positively inju-
rious other goods made from authorizations in
relative comparison. with the pure products always
the best in the long