The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-13
ADJUSTMENTS TODAY.
ANOTHER FOND DELusloN GONE.

And now comes the pure food COM
mission and skaters another delusion.
In a hearing held at Louisville, the
commission met the makers of what
has been called ice cream until recent
1y. These manufacturers came from
Pittsburg. Chicago and the west gem
orally, and they discussed the ingredi-
ents of their product with a freedom
that was surprising, not to say appall-
ing. Among other things they argued
for the right to use a gelatine made
from South American hides, gum
tragacanth, which is used extensively
for newspaper paste and other articles
not of diet; eggs of a more or less un-
certain age and condition; milk (not
cream) of per cent butter fat, sorn-
starch and natural flavoring substances.
Imagine the sweet, young girls
emotion when she contemplates the
consumption OF newspaper paste,
the essence of rancid hides, over
due eggs and a little butter fat
frozen and touched up with fla
voring substances. Can loves young
dream be nourished on that sort of
diet? Is there any show at all for the
upbuilding of fine feelings and fiowery
speech on glue frappe? Isn't the end
Of the republic in plain view when the
youth OF the land is confronted with
such a sOulless game as these makers
of CONNECTIONS are trying to put up?
Isn't the palladium of all our liberties
menaced when the stroll OF a summer
night has to end in delirium of corn
starch, gum tragacanth and glue trav-
cling under an alias of ice cream?
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But this is not all the infamy by the
pure food commission in Kentucky. In
vestigation there proves that the noun
tain dew we had supposed came from
corn, favored with sunshine and
ripened in musty old cellars or in voy-
ages around the Horn, is only what the
Kentuckians themselves call 'cookin'
whisky" rectified and blended and
electrified and doctored until a real
colonel would sooner think of drinking
water than of endangering his life with
the stuff.
1t seems that the real goods is sell
dom sent outside the state being in
large demand at home where it is ap-
preciated, but that the blended article
yields a large profit on sale to aliens in
the north who don't know the differ
ence between, say, a real bourbon and
a dyed moonshine blend. Yet the
blenders and their allies insist that they
ought to be exempt from the pure food
laws operation and not be compelled
TO label their product for what it is.
If that isn't indictable nerve, it ought
TO be. Kentuckians themselves ought
10 see to it that the fair name of the
state and the reputation of its chief
product are protected by rigid enforce
ment of the law. Not only ought the
rectifed goods be labeled, but they
ought to have deaths head and cross
bones about foot square on every
package to indicate the dangers of the
poison and give the consumer a chance
TO prepare for his end when he drinks
1t.
Happily for the. future of the nation.
the commission is obdurate and insists
on the correct labelling of iced milk
and glue, of rectifed whisky and
blended forty-rod. After Jan. the
girl who lets her sutton buy this patent
ice cream will do it at her own risk
with a full knowledge of the danger
she incurs; and the man who forfeits
his life insurance by imbibing the
blended booze known in the west as
sheep-dip cannot plead ignorance in
defense of his crime.
Truly the pure food law is a great
Boon, and the commission must be
composed of real patriots.
Count Boni attempted a speech in the