The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-09-12
Argus-les5er, August 20, 1907
DO THEY WISH TO FACE IT?"

Art. /. The Crawford administration
can we'll afford To face the recent
order of the Food and Dairy Commits
sioner, which compels every vender
of patent medicines to label each pack
age with a plain statement of what
it contains. SO that the farmer or non
Scientifically educated buyer may
know what he. she, or they are giving
the poor innocent little baby and thus
protect its life, against narcotic drugs,
which may be concealed in the spur
ious concoction with no statement as to
what it contains. There is nothing in
the rulings of the commissioner to pre-
vent any one from buying any remedy
at any drug store that has ever been
kept on sale heretofore.
Art. . The same articles will doubt
less be on sale after October 1st, that
have always been on sale in drug
stores in this state, but they must be
labeled so as TO inform the purchaser
of what they are made. Governor
Crawford had nothing whatever to do
with the rulings Of the commissioner,
except to sign the bill which became
q law, and has been in effect since
July 1st, 1907. The rulings of the com
missioner conforms strictly to the law
enacted by Republican Legislature,
and signed by 4 Republican Governor,
to be inforced by his appOintee, a Re
publican Commissioner. Is the Argus
Leader a Republican or a Democratic
paper?
Art ,. II the new ruling is enforced
the druggists Will be deprived of the
trade resulting from the sale of thou
sands of dollars OF $50 called patent
medicines. which are worthless, which
have no value except to the manufac-
turers and retailers. who (perhapsl
have not learned that YOU can't fool
all the people all the time and the
people will b- saved just the same
thousands Of dollars, which formerly
went for remedies. purpodted to be
a panacea Tor all ills when in fact
the only rea, merit it ever possessed
was in the neatly WOrded labels on
the bottles.
The mailorier houses will have no
advantage o, the local druggist if he
sells these goods, We wonder how
much the Argu,Leader received from
the mail order houses for this implied
lie
Art 4. When the legislature was in
session a drug bill was drawn and in
troduced By = druggist. following the
National Law very closely. The doc
tors Went before the committee who
had the bill in charge after the first
reading securing a few changes which
seemed necessary. The druggists had
representatives there. who also secur'
ed few changes. after which the bill
passed. We believe it is one Of the
best bills in the United States on the
subject of adulteration and that the
people of this state will stand by the
commissioner in enforcing it.
Art. 5. The farmers of this state like
any kind of reform which will prevent
drug sharks from selling them as
medicine. common salt, charcoal, pine
bark, ginger sulphur and the like FOR
from 100 TO 1900 per cent above the
price they could buy it of the local
druggist for. If there was a common
name applied TO these things instead
of Sodium Chloride for salt, Botassii
Bitartras instead of Bitartrate Of pot
ash, Potassium Carbonate instead of
Bicromate OF Potash etc. etc. We
presume Governor Crawford and Mr..
Wheaton will zealously persist in pro
tecting the people just as those who
passed the law intended they should
and just as they swOre they would in
taking their oath of Office.