Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-08-27
EMERY HIS HOT
TILT WITH WILSON
WISCONSIN MAN ATTACKS REF
FREE BOARD AND AROUSES IRE
OF SECRETARY.
BADGER is CALLED UNFAIR
Reserts Accusation from Agrlcultura
Executive, but Adjournment Shuts
Off Debate.
TALKS TO PURE FOOD DELEGATES

DENNE Elk. Colo. Aug. IA ulttei
tilt over the merits of the Remsen ref
cree board, appointed at the instance OF
President Roosevelt to investigate the
uses Of benzoate of soda as preserva,
tive, took place between Secretary OF
Agriculture Wilson and j. Z. Emery OF
Wisconsin. president of the ASSOCIATION
during the session OF the amman pure
food convention here today.
Emery attacked the findings OF the
Remsen board and charged Secretary
Wilson with blocking a reinvestgatlon'
Secretary Wilson warmly defended the
board.
Il wish we had the money to procure;
them for the department OF agriculture,
he said land | hope they VIII be given
g. fair hearing here
Mr., Emery instantly resented this re
mark. and repeated his charge that the
secretary had blocked the appeal to the
President for reinvestlgauon OF the
henzoate subject Prior to the con,
vention at Mackinac, you gentlemen mao
condemned our entire department. al
Washington" retorted the lrate ser ~
tarv. and ! did not think you were the
nr0ner material to make supreme court
out of"
Further debate was interrupted by ad'
journment
Emery Makes Address.
Sounding the warning to be ever on
the alert against new forms of food and
drug authorizations and exhaustively re-
,vieWing the history of reform in dairy,
food and drug laws, ]. Q. Emery today
gave the presidents tnnual address. HlSn
praise was given to DR.. ii. w. whey,
chief of the federal bureau of chemls'
try, whose name, he said, Sin the MINDS
of the American people is inseparably
associated with purity and honesty OF
food prOducts.'
Must Continue Fight.
Commissioner Emery urged the as
sociation to continue the fight against
the use of benz0ate of soda and other
chemical preservatives in food products,
and deplored the action OF the govern
ment's referee board appointed at the
inStigation of certain manufacturers OF
foods to investigate the question or the
harmfulness of such preservatives, in de-
Gliding that benzoate of soda is harmless.
The assumption of the three secretaries
(Cortelyou. Wilson and Strauss, the Off
Gals at the time charged with making
regulations for the enforcement Of the
national food and drug act, with refer
cnce to the report of the referee board,
lit having been determined that ben
zoate of soda mixed with food is not
deleterious or poisonous and is not in
furious to health" was branded by Com
missioner Emery as ''unWarranted and
ia Ise."
Fraud VS.. Square Deal
Mr. Emery detailed the conditions that
prevailed decade and more ago when
the laboring man carried a full dinner
pail as the political parties referred to
it, but full of what? Embalmed beef
Lake Michigan water; oleomargarine
bought as butter, at the price of butter
glucose bought as and for pure sorghum
or molasses; Gamers wastes preserved
with benzoate of soda instead of genu-
inc fruits; bread made from low grade
of wheat -four, artifcially bleached to
deceive him into the belief that he is
getting what he is entitled to, namely,
the best grade of wheat -four; filled with
never-ending frauds and receptions, imi
tations of the genuine"
Three Courses Open
There were three courses of proce.
dure open to the people of the country
undere these conditions. They could
quietly acquiesce in them, allowing an
army of food authorizations to rob them
of their health and of their incomei
each man could fight his own battle
with the powerful food adulterating
course of long and technical lawsuits;
and the third and better method
which the people have chosen, ''to de-
fine food adulteration by legal enact
ment, provide by law and at public
expense for food commissioners, food
chemists, food inspectors, ETC., for a
vigorous and impartial enforcement Of
these laws for the purpose of protect.
ing the public against the harmful
consequences of food adulteration.
"And this method" continued MIR.
Emery, sis the square deal" This is
the method of fair play; and that is
what the American people love and
are fully determined to have. He who
fails to realize that the American peo-
pie will ultimately make hard the
way of the transgressor against the
purity and wholesomeness and honesty
of food products fails to discern the
signs of the times"