The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-02-16
PAIEIEg R0D IS DEADLY
A MILLION EEaSrs SACRIFICED
10 VARIOUS CONOOCEIONs.
Soothing SyFups, Pain Killers and
Condensed Mix Reaping Har-
vest OF the Children.


Washington. Feb. 12@That more
than 100000 infants have been sac
rifced to the various connections
known as soothing syTups" and pain
killers" and over twice that number
killed BY impure milk, is the declara-
ton made by Professor H. ". Wiley,
chief Of the chemistry bureau Of the
department OF agriculture
We do not know anything about
the milk We have left at our homes,
or the condition under which its IS
produced" ne added. There are q
thousand and one possibilities which
might have combined to make what
nature intended for a food the most
virile poison that chemistry can pro-
duce.
II have found that the foods we
daily consume are so fraught with
germ life OF a harmful nature that
am almost afraid to go to the table
The butter is painted-there is little
other to be found anywhere. Can
ned goods are kept years and sold for
the genuine article I speak particu-
larry Of condensed milk.
If we know nothing Of the fresh
milk we get surely our knowledge is
more limited to the product that IS
put in cans. The Lord intended US
to resort to cans only to tide US over
one season, until green fruits could
be had again, but the canneries don't
know this. There is no law requiring
them to stamp the date upon their
goods If there were it would kill the
sale"
It was the irony Of fate that the
Washington butcher who foisted a
fake lamb chop on the market should
send an order Of this delectable food
TO the home Of DR.. Wiley, head Of the
chemical bureau Of the agricultural
department, whose business it is to in
vestigate foods and see that they are
pure and are all that they are repre-
scented to be.
Dr. Wiley freely admits that the
fake lamb chop is a new one on him
The artificial chop is now reposing
snugly in a pastebOard box on the
doctors desk It base become an Of
fetal exhibit and will be presented to
the committees Of the house and sen
ate which have the pure food bill un-
der consideration. It is likely to be-
come famous in government history.
The possession Of this precious piece
Of evidence came about in an entire
" accidental way. The young woman
who attends to the marketing for the
Wiley household made her usual visit
to the market and jokingly insisted
that the lamb chops she ordered
should be especially good, because
they were intended for DR.. Wiley, the
food expert Of the government. She
picked out what she wanted, and IN
dOubtedly the intention Of the butcher
was to give her the genuine article.
In some way, however, the orders be
came mixed When Dr.. Wileybegan his
daily meal the first thing he struck
was the imitation lamb chop. This
extraordinary imitation was made up
OF a piece Of comparatively unstable
meat, probably taken from some
where about the neck. A bone which
previously had been in use, because
it showed signs Of having been broiled
or boiled, at some stage, was carefully
inserted in little Sits in the piece OF
neck and fastened over with some
thing resembling cartilages, so that
the effect at first glance was that of
an ordinary lamb chop.
Had it been given to any other than
a professional food expert il might
easily have passed muster as the real
thing.