Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-31
Ninety-Flvc Per Cent of Manu-
facturers Observe Its Pro-
visions
v'oLAToRs FACE 4 PENALTY
Or. Wiley, Federal Expert, Points Out
Progress in nforcement-Points Out
Laws Vioators-Active Campaign
Against Impure Druss-Fewer Vio-
lations Expected Next Year.

L.
per cent of all manufacturers of anc
dealers in foods, drinks and drugs are
supplying pure goods to their custom
ers and labelling or branding correctly
those goods.
This statement was made yesterday
by Dr. W. FL Wiley, chief of the bu-
reau of chemistry Of the department OF
agriculture and pure food expert of the
government. With tomorrow the frs,
year of enforcement of the pure food
law will have passed. In that time all
most every article of food, drink, and
medicine of the people has been the
object of government scrunity. The re-
suit has been that the standard of
these necessities has risen far beyond
what it was before the introduction OF
chemicals took place. The majority OF
manufacturers and dealers have not
had to be Irodded by the government;
They have inquired at the department
pAeNSSS
upon the provisions affecting their
business. They have observed this in
depreciation.
But few manufacturers and dealers
have considered it more profitable to
continue the old practices of fraud and
the men involved will suffer the pen
atty. DR.. Wiley has referred to the de-
partment Of justice evidence he has
secured showing a violation of the in
terstate commerce feature of the pure
food laws by manufacturers and deal
ers and the attorney general has or
dered the proper district attorneys to
institute the necessary proceedings.
Among these cases are from forty to
fifty Illinois producers of milk, who
shipped their impure product into Mis-
souri,. The fact thak the milk has
crossed the interstate line has made
the milk producers subject to federal
DIR. Wiley insists emphatically that
enforcement of the pure food law has
not in any sense disturbed the bust
hess.
The great majority of manufacture
he declared. "They had nothing to fear
from the pure food law. The dishonest
and dealer deserved no
When was at James
town. Va, some months ago I urged
the cotton seed oil men to label their
product exactly what it was. They
did So Their business has increased
The volume of BUSH
ness and value of the business never
has been SO great as during the last
year. Oar exports and imports ex-
coed those of last year. Dividends
$20,000,000 in excess of those of last
year have been paid. Besides this
prosperity there has been a
distinct Improvement in the character
and quality of food products
DR.. Wiley was asked to indicate the
extent OF the opposition to the en-
forcement of the law.
1.-The only people who are really try
Ing to oppose the act as interpreted by
the government" he replied. "are the
Of rectified whisky,
those who use chemical preservatives
in the preparation of foods. and the
makers of artificial or imitation flaw
ors and colors. Individually, they are
Of slight consequence, but united as
they are they constitute a force which
is troublesome We have excluded
hundreds of invoices of foreign foods
which were found adulterated or mis-
branded. We have transmitted to the
attorney general from $50 to 200 cases.
Of violations of the interstate COM
merce law because of misbranding.
''J'he department of justice already
has taken up two important cases
which will be in the nature Of tests of
The constitutionality of the law. One
is an action brought against the man
lfacturer of compound labeled bour-
bon whisky, which really is neutral
spirits made from molasses. The other
s an action based upon the shipment
IF so-ealled apple cider, which was
found to contain IL per cent of alco-
lol, two and half times the quantity
existing in hard cider. This shipment
was made to a prohibition state. 9th
,r cases are ready for action as soon
is evidence can be prepared and the
proper United States district attorneys
nave time to carry on the proceedings.
Among others we have about fifty
cases arising out of the shipment of
skim and watered milk from Illinois
nto Missouri.
DR. yNilev was asked what had been