The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-09
New Pure Food Law Is Being
Felt by Local Druggists
and GroCerS.
OLD FANCIES DISPELLED
DOPE USERS ARE FAVORED BY
THE ACT.


their food and drink any alcohol, NOR
phine, opium. cocaine. heroin alpha or
beta eucaine. chloroform, cannabis in
6ica, choral hydrate, acetanilide or any
herivities or preparations Of suclT sub
stances. Why anybody particularly
wants TO know this has not been eX-
planned. but congress I'm its wisdom
passed law to that effect June so last
and IL went into effect Jan. /.
Those familiar with chemicals and
medicines win not be bothered, but the
average citizen when he discovers that
his favorite brand of patent medicine
bears a label which informs him that
This product contains two parts of
beta eucaine, one part of cannabs in
dica." etc, will be indeed sorely per-
picked, and perhaps imagine that one
pf his sacred prerOgatives has been
taken from him by cruel government
Fine for Dope Fiend.
The dope fend. however. should
glory I'm the new law He will be able
10 discover just what drug contains the
greatest percentage of cocaine, opium
or morphine and instead of frightening
him into a disuse OF the remedy. tie
siren voice of the label will be all the
more captivating The new law. in
fact, does not drive cOcaine-lOaded mix
lures from the market. but surrounds
them with a halo having especial fas-
cination for dope fiends of all degrees
OF degradation
a change will also be wrought i'm the
thirst parlors. Bibulous ones, instead
OF imagining they are drinking Pure
Old Bourbon" will find their favorite
bottle labeled something like this:
Denatured alcohol. one pint.
Fusel oil. one-half pint.
Stewed prunes, one-quarter pound
MnRVhffaa on ORC Inc
Remainder water.
Whether this labelling system win
prevent intoxication TO any considerable
extent is seriously doubted by distillery
officials.
All through the list of other fire
waters a spade will be called a spade
and beer will not be beer until it is
rightly brewed and certified. Dates
viii also play an important part. and
the man who for years has been drink
ing "twenty-year-old whisky" will dis
cover that he is now imbibing stuff
made six months ago. This will be dis
heartening. but the effects of the shock
are not expected to last long.
Bad for Breakfast Foods.
Breakfast foods, with excelsior or
sawdust as basis. will also have to be
so described. Labels reading as fol-
lows will not be uncommon:
rMurphy's Morning Masticator. choice
health food, contains the following in
gradients: Sawdust. five parts: horse
hair (Curled). two parts: excelsior three
parts; shavings (selected). two parts;
flour one-eighth part: barley straw Ito
give proper lavor), one sixteenth part"
I'm the grocery stores the tempting
looking canned goods and jelles will
have startling labels. One sign will
read. Prepared with Glucose" anoth-
or. "COlored with Sulphate of Copper"
and still another Will say, Anytime
Dyes Used in this Preparation" The
busy housewife inspecting a shelf full
OF these labeled cans and Jars will
wonder how she ever raised a family on
such poisonous stuff. and for a while
will feed her flock a very simple fare.
Grocers are now busy remarking their
stock Imitation vanilla lard COM
pound substitute pressed chicken"
etc. instead Of using the deceiving Ia
bells which declare these products TO be
the real articles. Many of the firms
whose products are i'm accordance with
the new law are sending out vouchers
for their goods and expect the mer-
chants to stick them on.
Ready to Obey New Law.
In Salt Lake the druggists and gro
GERS are making preparations to oh
serve the new law to the letter. The
Retail Druggists association has dis
guessed the law at several of it's recent
Meeting and. although it has been
y found puzzling. everything possible will
be done TO comply with its provisions.
Speaking of the law, f. c. Schramm
said yesterday:
Il believe that it is good law and
that il will drive many Of the bogus
patent medicines from the market. The
Salt Lake druggists will enforce il TO
The best of their ability and. although
we expect some trouble at first, we will
soon become acquainted with its pro-
visions. Every day we are getting new
drugs with the new labels on them. and
1t is astonishing the percentage of
poison some Of them contain. If many
Of the people who are taking headache
tablets regularly know that they con-
tain cocaine or some other harmful in
gradients. YOU could not force them
down them. When they see what they
have been taking right on the label
their hair will raise up and they viii be
cured without any medicine whatever.
II is the same way with heart stimu-
lants and other things
The law provides that all manufac-
tuners must either affiX a label 10 their
articles giving the ingredients or If
these articles conform with the pure
FOOD law must guarantee them in writ
ing Any druggist or grocer who sells
adulterated goods without a guarantee
or without label stating the aduIter-
ants used can be prosecuted. but if he
has Manufacturers guarantee for the
purity OF the product the blame does
not rest on him. but on the manufac-
turer. Already manufacturers are ship
ping i'm the required labels and drug
gists and grocers are busy affixing
them.
IL will be several weeks before an ac-
Curate estimate OF the effect Of the new
law can he Obtained. Most OF the deal
eTs expect slump in trade at first. fol-
lowed by a rise that viii more than
make up for the deficiency.
MAN KILLED IN POCATELLO.