The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-01-01
BENEFITS Of PURE
FOOD ANDDRUG ACT
A Most Benfcient and Righteous
Statute Which Protects Consumer
Rather Than Manufacturer
BY Associated Press.


Washington, d G. Dec. 26-The follow
ing is an abstract Of a speech BY DR.. H.
D. Wiley. Chief Of the Bureau Of ofChemistry.
Department Of Agriculture. on The Good
Already Accomplished by The Food and
Drugs Act" delivered today before the
Scientists Convention in Baltimore. Nd
which opened there this morning
FIRST must be mentioned the effect
which the Food and Drugs Act has bad
upon the ethics of trade. It & the uni-
versal consensus Of opinion 81 an high
grade manufacturers and merchants IN
food and drug products that the morality
Of the trade has been distinctly improved
When low grade oT debasted articles have
20 be named and specified and adultera-
tsns excluded there Is no longer ybe
neeees sity which existed before 81 really
high grade manufacturers STOPPING q the
deb8@ment of their food products tomeat
competition IN other words tie success
% business now does not depend upon
meeting 'oa grade competition but high
grade competition. and thus he merit
and excellence of the product other things
beine equal win So the pace Ter success
q the business
The second goo1 which has been ac
compished by the Food ana Drug Act 8
the judicial determination q many cases
q the principles involved Ia the law
itself Judge Smith Mcpherson. 20 the
United States disuc, court western dis
mct II Missouri Kansas City 70 de-
cis.on which be rendered 0a the Food and
Drugs Act stated This statute S @
protect consumers aa3 not producers Ii
Is 8 most baneae.ent and righteous stat-
ul snd within sae powers 9f coasra i0
laelsIate concernIus and should Be en-
forced Here we have the judicial state
meng showing tie substantially % the
act and iis beneaeient purpose aud The
purpose for which i should Be enforced
Toe consumer ia II eases IS tle party u
be protected, bur ID protecting tbe con-
slmeF tha rights of the manufacturers ace
also protected
The third good which has been accom-
PIisbed By the law IS the Improvement in
the quality Of tie food and drug supplies
This has been apparent in both food an6
drugs Cold storage goods are no longer
sold. Or az least not s0extensively as fresh
products, aad greater care is exercised in
the sanitary preparation offood than ever
before, % that tie foods which the people
of this country are eating today are more
wholesome and consequently more palat
able and more nutritious than ever before.
The improvement in the quality Of drugs
is not less marked a rigid Inspection Of
imported drugs keeps out Of the country
all that are not up TO the pharmaceutical
standard. aud the careful control although
not complete. 81 interstate commerce
tends to produce tie same effect on drugs
passing from state to state The making
and sale Of deleterious patent medicines
has been greatly restricted. especially in
those productions which relate 70 the
introduction Of habit forming drugs into
patent medicines and Of alcohol The
statement on the labels Of these products
respecting the presence Of these bodies
has served 10 warn a great many persons
Of the danger n their use and thus re-
stricted their sale. While perhaps there
is much left 10 be desired in this direction
the progress which has been made is most
encouraging. and the good which has been
accomplished already is pronounced.
Finally the general attitude Of the
public has been strengthened respecting
this Law 70 that II has the support Of q
more unified and enthuastie public opinion
Add TO this the almost unanimous support
Of the courts in all cases which have
come before them and We see that the
Food and Drugs Act has been firmly
established and win continue the good
work IN which 50 much has already been
accomplished