Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-22
DECLARE THE BLEACHED FLOUR
RULING SHOULD BE APPLIED
TO ALL OR NONE.
CLAIM SFCY. WILSON is UNFAIR
Department of Agriculture Is Urged
to Institute Prosecutons.-Disas-
trous Trade Conditions Said
to Follow Violations.

eapOl1S.-MlllerS OF the north
west, while not censuring their COM
petitors who persist in placing bleach
| ed flour on the market after the meth
| cd of bleaching has been declared by
| the secretary of agriculture to be in
violation of the pure food law, still
strongly insist that the ruling be
made law to be obeyed universally
or that it be entirely rescinded, CIV
| ing all the millers equal opportunities
| to dispose of their product.
II resolutions just passed by the
| millers they make a formal demand
on the secretary of agriculture for
the immediate bringing of a test suit
to determine the legality of his rul-
ing"
| The conditions arising from some
of the flour manufacturers following
to the letter the decision of the de-
disregarding it, were discussed at a
meeting of about 80 spring wheat
millers of the northwest and promin-
ent millers from other sections, at the
Minneapolis club.
when Secretary of Agriculture J.
T. Wilson made his declaration last
December that flour bleaching was
contrary to law" said A l.. Goetz-
mann, secretary of the Millers' Ma
tional federation, after the meeting,
"he announced that he would begin
the prosecution of the manufacturers
of any bleached flour he found in in
terstate commerce after June 8, 1909,
but he has not begun single prose
cution.
Some of the millers took the ruling
of the department of agriculture seri-
ously and began to put out unbleached
| flour, while others kept to the old
methods and are not being brought to
terms as threatened by the secretary.
All this has given rise to very unsat-
isfactory conditions as the producer
of unbleached flour has little chance
of sale where the other soffered.
1--WE do not blame the man who is
still bleaching his flour for doing SO
If he can, but if he is allowed the
privilege, we want to given to all i'm
partially. 1t is universally believed
by the millers that the process of
bleaching, until recently employed in
nearly all the manufacturing plants,
is in strict accordance with the food
and drugs act, but that is not the
question The ruling of Secretary
Wilson is not law and all we want
is a precedent established so that ev
cry miller can bleach his flour with
out fear of prosecution or all will be
compelled to abolish the system"
The discussion eliminated in the
passing of a resolution through which
the millers will formally call the at
tention of Secretary Wilson to the
conditions said to have arisen from
his decision and his alleged failure to
make all flour manufacturers comply
with his ruling.
The resolution is as follows:
BE it resolved by the spring wheat
millers of the northwest, in meeting
assembled, that we request the secre-
tary of the Millers' National fedora
ton to Immediately draw the condi-
tons existing to the attention OF j.
T. Wilson and formally demand of
him the immediate bringing of test
suit to determine the legality of his
ruling, and the secretary of this meet
ing be requested to pass this resolu-
ton to the Associated Press and the
secretary of the federation be re-
quested to forward it to President
Taft"