The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-05-29
THE PUBLIC INTEREST
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From Geo. H. Glover in Colorado Ag-
ricultural College Bulletin.
1t keeps us busy. I refer to the
matter of establishing our rights and
maintaining them. Self interest is
paramount and largely dominates our
every motive. We are as yet far from
that beautiful station of life, where
we a look dispassionately upon
both sides of the question, n gra-
ciously ~vouchsafe the other fellow a
square deal. In our eagerness for af-
iuence, and our mad rush onward for
positions of influence, with h covet-
ed goal, like a will-o,the-wisp always
just beyond, we necessarily jostle each
other, often eXasperatingly.
The contention for what we believe
and unhesitatingly proclaim as our
rights is ever foremost. We are in
deed kept busy, and so are the courts
of Justice. There is therefore always
the question of our rights il the pre-
misses; how to enjoy our liberties
without interfering with the rights of
others.
In most of the m~ultitudinous prob
lens of life the rights of others should
not be ignored. In the matter of what
we should eat, l must insist that there
is only one side to the question. Our
stomachs are not worth much, to be
sure: still we claim al absolute right
to know that the food we put into
them is pure and wholesome, and fit
for food; that it will support our bO-
dies and not ~endanger our lives. Is
this all? Not by any means; We
want and must insist upon our right
to a reasonable assurance for the
stomachs' sake, that the food is clean
and free from faint of disease, chemi-
cal nr6SprEaf1UnS nr any 1mn11rIT1PS
whatsoever.
The most important phase of the
subject is, of course, that pertaining
to the danger involved il eating such
food. There is another consideration
pertinent i'll this connection which US
ually gives us more l rea-
son it this way. We should enjoy eat
ing because our digestion demands it,
n it does not d to the pleasure
of our MONDAY meal to fee that We
ry likely, the meat is supplied by
some superanuated old COW, and per
haps diseased; hat the milk may con-
tain the deadly germs of consumption
or possibly formaline or other danger
GUS p~reservatives. The canned fruit
may, and o. often does, contain
deadly ptomains. The canned peas
look s~uspiciously green, and the red
cherry which adorns the salad ration
Is cOlOred with a coal tar
product. And so we might go an thru
the category of things that are eaten
with more or less relish, but we will
graciousiy spare you the unpleasant
perusal of this subject further at this
time. Neither shall we discuss the
diseases communicable to man from
the eating of impure food.
Intelligent people everywhere are
.arousing from their lethaFgy, and
loudly demanding that everything of
fered us for food shall be pure and
exactly what is claimed for it. Our
in this respect will no be ques-
1t is simply this: Are we 60
to allow this thing to continue at
expense, not only of our pocket
books, but of our health and possibly
of our lives?
Fort Collins is awake on this pro-
position, as she usually is in every
else pertaining to h best inter
astS of her citizens. An ordinance is
now being prepared for consideration
the nea future, which, if adopted.
will insure that every pound of meat
hat oes on our tab1es has been in
spected; that no milk shall be sold
in our city that will endanger the
ives of children; hat when we buy
milk it will not ave been drawn the
before and skinned in the
morning. In substance that this ira
tic in human food shall be a square
his for humanity's axe