Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-09-01
THE MOVEMENT FOR
PURE FOOD SUPPLIES
BEING REVIEW EXC ERPT OF THE ANNUAL ADDRESS
PRESIDENT EMERY OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
FOOD AND DAIRY DEPARTMENTS UNITED STATES IN
DENVER. u z&sase

| food and dairy departments In SeS-
sion here spoke forcefully and at
length upon the problems confronting
the association in his annual adj
dress delivered yesterday. He re-
viewed the history of the pure food
movement and the legislation that
has followed. He pointed out the
| conditions as they have existed in
the past and to justify the
national concern regarding the
purity of foods he quoted from DR.. w.
H. Wiley, who, in writing few years
since upon the subject said:
What may housewife expect who
goes into store where no food regu-
/ lations, national, state or municipal
exist? If she asks for butter, she may
get oleomargerine or renovated but
| ter; for honey, glucose or a mixture
thereof; for pepper, an article adui-
terated by the addition of starch and
ground shells; for jelly, some fruit
juice usually derived from apple cores
and skins rejected in drying, mixed
with glucose, preserved with salicyl-
|
aniline dye. The peas OF, beans may
contain, especially if they are very
green, considerable quantities OF that
poisonous substance, sulphate of cop
per; the prepared meat or sausage,
4 boric acid and usually some coloring
matter to intensity the real color OF
! the meat; the Goldfish may be pre-
! served with boric acid instead OF old
! fashioned common salt; the sardines
purporting to be of French origin may
/ have been caught off the coast OF
Maine and instead of being packed in
Ecliye oil as one would expect are Of
/ ten packed in cotton seed OIL She
may get tub oysters highly dosed
with borax; milk and cream contain
ing formaldehyde; maple molasses
made of glucose and melted brown
sugar: olive oil that is wholly cotton
seed oil or mixed with cotton seed,
,,eanut or sesame oil; white wine al
most saturated with sulphurous acid;
I red wine made partly of sugar and not
wholly CT the juice of the grape: Mo
cha and Java coffee from Brazil, yet
| bearing the false name; cream made
/ Of milk thickened with viscogen and
artificially colored, and so on down
! the list
President Emery recalled other evil
dences of gross maltreatment of the
| public confidence by the adultera-
ton and recalled that under the old
conditions they were bold to the
| limit Under these conditions, he said,
there were three courses of proceed
ure:
Il. They could quietly acquiesce in
these conditions. They could, by 81
food adulterators to rob them of their
health and of their incomes. They
could close their eyes, stultify their
intellects and proclaim that the
American food manufacturers and
distributors are the personification of
honesty and integrity; that no
wrongs were being perpetrated on
consumers; that there was no en-
balrned beef; no adulterated food.
General Miles was wrong. DR.. Wiley
was wrong. The New York court of
appeals was wrong They were hurt
ing business
S2. Another method to be pursued
was to let each consumer fight his own
battle with these powerful food adul-
teratfng interests. Here is our labor
ing man with his family to support
from his daily earnings. How much
our POLITICAL parties have concerned
themselves that he should have a
full dinner pail. Full of what? EN-
bafmed beef; sausage loaded with po-
tato -four and Lake Michigan water;
oleomargerine bought as butter, at
the price of butter; glucose bought as
and for pure sorghum or molasses:
Gamers wastes preserved with ben
zoate of soda instead of genuine
fruits; bread made from a low grade
OF wheat flower artificially bleached
to deceive him into the belief that he
is getting what he is entitled to, name
~ the best grade of wheat flower:
filled with never ending frauds and
receptions, limitations of the genuine?
By this second method of pro-
cedure, if this man considers himself
wronged, defrauded, why say the food
adulteratOrs in their blandest manner
and with their most complacent
smiles, let him take his case into
court; let him employ lawyer: let
him secure at his own expense the
services of chemist to prove that the
food he purchased was adulterated
was fraud; let him go into court ana
there establish that he has been dam
aged and how much and there re-
cover the damage; let him do all this
to win his case against the strong de-
Tense We will put up with our highly
paid expert lawyers to conduct our
case and equally expert and highly
paid chemists to give the testimony
we need