Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-19

: LOOKER-ON IN IOWA

Brooklyn, Jan. 19.-There is much
uncertainty and many erroneous opin-
ions concerning the shipment of dress
ed meat, under the rulings of depart
ment at Washington of the new pure
food law, this referring to the bust
ness in this line Of the farmer and
marketmen, i. e.: country butchers.
Messrs. Butts & Wright of this place,
proprietors of meat market here,
wished to ship some fresh meat from
here to Colorado, and this was their
experience. They had to send to
Washington, d. c., to get some blank
certificates, which they filled out in
duplicate, stating that the meat was
fresh, wholesome, free from disease
and fit for human food, this presented
to the railroad agent and that was all
there was to it. Any farmer can but
cher any kind Of food animal and send
the dressed meat anywhere, in the
United States, by filling out such GER
tifieates and presenting them to rail-
road or express company. Provision
should be made by the pure food COM
missioners to have some of these blank
certificates in the postoffices or ma
present time the farmer or butcher has
to send to Washington to get them,
great Inconvenience If one wishes
to stop on a rush order. Commission
houses will furnish the same on APP
plication.
Here's another outcome of the pure
food laws. The Iowa law or the ma
tional law may have brought out the
result The writer several times has
been told, but not yet able to verify
1t, that one of the largest mail order
houses of Chicago, has quit the grocery
business so far as Iowa is concerned,
since January 1, 1907. Here's whole
story in a nutshell. This big firm that
has for years been shipping into Iowa
thousands of dollars worth Of cheap
to ship on rush order. Commission
20 groceries, now virtually says
we've quit filling orders for groc-
erie. in Iowa because the low now
compels US to tell you what we sell.
Heretofore we could sell you any old
kind of bean and call it coffee, we
could dry apple blossoms and sell 1t
to you for tea, We could sell you
ground pepper made of bark for half
the price Of whole pepper, we could
send you maple syrup made Of glucose
and stewed corn cobs' extract, we could
sell you a water pail full of pure cur
rant jelly for 40 cents made of jelly
from pigs feet, colored with analine
and some old seeds mixed in, hereto
fore we could undersell your home
grocer. we can yet, only you won't
deal with us again, after once read
ing our labels on the package.
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Comment on the Charles City mob
continues. 1t is astonishing how one
hears in all of these towns the same
talk: tits the proper thing to look
solemn, shake your head and remark,
mob law is wrong, it's an awful thing
for the people to take the law into
their own hands. Sometimes the MOP
hangs the wrong man. This Charles
City mob was a disgrace to the fair
fame of Iowa. We are no better than
the southerners.' ." There everybody
saws chat so we must have order or
we go back to barbarism" After that
one man remarks, "well, Cullen got
lust what he deserved, and I'm glad
of it," Some one else then rises to
remark that "if anybody here thinks
a wife murderer or a child rapist COM
n1its those crimes in this town, and
will have to wait for a trial, it's a
mistake" Somehow "the folks are
good deal like the people,"
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