Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-09-19
PLACING THE BL AME

PLACING HE BLAME
StalNSarts Supported tile Measure and
Hive Beeh Commended Therefor.
Commissioners Wheaton, the state
chemist, and the governor are trying
70 drive every patent medicine out Of
the state. What they will succeed il
doing will be to stimulate the mail or
der business, which is just the thing
the merchants Of the state are fighting. 3.
Argus Leader.
NO greater piece of political bun
combe 1 was ever manufactured in the
history Of journalism. The above
statement, written for the sole purpose
OF casting discredit upon the present 1
state administration, is nothing more I
E more @ than an abuse of the governor
and the last legislature The pure food
law as seen in chapter l5l, page S22,
session laws of 1907, is g IN act TO pro.
vide for food and dairy commission
to prevent the adulteration, misbrand--
ing and imitation of foods, beverages.
candies, drugs and medicines, meats
and tish, and to regulate the manu-
facture and sale thereof and Of dairy;
products. The Argus Leader objects
to the law because it threatens certain
patent medicine concerns that are cir
culating deleterious medicines over the
state.
The fact of the matter is that 1f the
blame for the enactment Of the law
is to be placed on the shoulders Of any.
one, the blame must be placed upon
the stalwarts This bill was intro
duced by the house commitJoe on food
and dairy, the committee consisting Of
four insurgents and three stalwarts
with Olson Of Clark, stalwart, as
chairman and Representative Foncan.
on of Mel Pherson, another stalwart as
its father When the bill was put,to
final vote it was carried, the vote
standing 81 to 20, nearly all the stal-
warts voting III the Affirmative
While at least ten insurgents voted
against IT. So the stalwarts could
have doWned the bill if they had So
desired Representative Browne ot3
Brown, and representative Parmley,
the two s..ai Wart leaders on the floor Of
the house and the men who will head
the stalWait state ticket in the coming
campaign but voted for it. rhe
American wonders how these gentle
men feel to be SO maligned, accused Of
driving business industries out Of the
state. sss
Lest the Argus Leader should at
tempt, with its customary audacity, to
lls out of it's position the American has
consulted the records and publishes the
vote en- this bill, when it was enacted
In that way persons who are conser-
want with the representatives at the
last session Of the legislature and the
positions they took in regard to the ad L
ministration measures, can see for
themselves that the stalwarts are re-
sponsible for the bill which the Argus
Leader SO brutally attacks:
Those voting aye we're Andrews,
sBibelheimer, Bratrud, Brown, Brnm-
baugh, Brynjulson, Carley, Carroll,
Dingsor, Drake, Eastman, Ebersvilipr
Fitch, Foncanon, Frease, Carver, Glass,
Groce, Gurney, Hale, Hare, Hebal, Hef-
ferman, Herman, Hopkins, Hornby,
Humiston, Johnson of Clay, Johnson
of Minnehaha, Kleinsasser, Kribs, Lar
son, Matteson, Michael. Miller, Myers,
Mckinley, Nelson, Olson of Moody,
.Oviatt, Parmley, Pennington, Peters,
Peterson OF Lawrence. Peterson Of
Lincoln, Price of Sphinx, Rood, Sildied
Ter, Shaw, Simonson, Simpson, Smith Of
Marshall, Stokes, Stoner, Trumbo, Van
Osdel, Voigt Weide, Written ore, W OH i,
muth, Mr. Speaker, link.
Those voting ma were NJ Messrs.
Cable, Ellermrn, Engstrom, Ewald,
5Gropengeiser, Hamilton, Issenhuth
Jones, king, Lanam, Lee, Martin, OF
to, Palmer, Price of Yankton, Randum,
Scott, Swanson, Wooley.
Those absent, and not voting were
Messrs. Foster, Joseph, Satire, See.
Excused were Mr.. Golf.
But the American finds no faultwith
the vote of the stalwarts on this bill.
The law in qoestiOn is food and W ise
one, as it will undou ubtedi u put ont of 9.
circulation many harmful medicines
now being foated over this state. Bnt
the purpose of this art lcle is to sho v:
how malicious, how hypocritical, no VI
now hypocritical, how deceitfuI, how
unworthy Of belief the Argus Lesd 81,
and its right bower, the Aberdeen
News, are. Its criticism Of the present n
administ. alton on the pure food deal
is made with an utter disregard for
the facts and for the sole purpose Of al
giving the administration and Cover
nor Crawford q black eye, Aberdeen
American. .5s