Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-09-17

lection to the health and lives of the
people. Over $500 employees are di-
rectly engaged each working day in the
year in the enforcement of the law.
On the same day, June 80, 1906, Pres
ident Roosevelt approved the Pure
Food Law. This law covers all foods,
with the exception of meats, including
beverages, and also drugs which enter
interstate or foreign commerce. BY its
terms, articles of food or drink must
not contain any injurious or deleterious
drug, chemical, or preservative, and the
label upon each package of food, drugs,
or drink must state the exact fact, and
must not be false or misleading in any
particular. While this law does not
cover foods. beverages and drugs which
are produced and consumed entirely
within the limits of one state, yet its
enactment has melted the legislatures
of the different states to enact laws
covering domestic products of a like
nature These laws very generally fol-
low the national act as to form and de-
tail, the only difference being that one
affects interstate and foreign commerce,
while the other affects the internal
commerce of the state. Inspectors are
continually travelling throughout the
| United States to discover whether the
and they have found, upon the part of
manufacturers and DEALER. very gen.
eral compliance with the Jaw. When
violations of the law are observed,
they are at once prosecuted by the De-
partment of Justice, and the guilty
parties are punished.
| The Farmer and Balance of Trade
During the eighteen years, 1S9O-l9O7
exports over imports amounted to 1881,
100000, and during the same time the
annual average in favor of farm pro
ducts was 1862 100000, from which il
is apparent that there was an average
annual adverse balance Of trade in pro
ducts other than those of the farm
amounting to $25,0OO,U0O, which the
farmers offset and had left 1887 100000
to the credit of themselvesand the coun
TRY.
Taking the business of 1907, the com
parison is much more favorable to thu
farmers than during the eighteen-yea
period, since the value of domestic eX
ports of farm products over import
was $444,OOO,OOO.
During the last eighteen years Their
was Il balance of trade in favor of farm
products, without excepting any year
that amounted to S6,512,0O0,O0C
Against this was an adverse balance o
trade in products other than those o
the farm of $456,OOO,OOO, and the farm
ers not only Cancelled this immense oh
legation, but had enough left to plac
Sc, O56,OOO,0OO to the credit Of the ma
ton when the books Of internationa
exchange were balanced.
These figures tersely express the in
mense national reserve sustaining pow
. or of the farmers of the country unde
, present quantities of production.
, The health of our people is bein
! safeguarded by inquiry into imports
, lions of food from foreign countrie
, that contain substances deleterious I
health. The United states is no longe
: the dumping ground for food stuff
J that are forbidden sale in the countrie
5 where they originate.
: An aim of the Department is to max
5 the American independent with regar
to everything that can be produced
our ATTITUDES. Corps of scientists hay
been placed in each of the new islam