Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-09-09


! stuff. Now Idaho has declared oper
I and persistent war.
RI Mr.. Wallis in the short tins he ha.
been in office has created havoc
} among local dealers in number o.
towns and cities in this section. He
has gone into business houses and has
thrown out cart loads of adulterated
foods. When he gets his breath he
will throw out some more and it is not
at all likely that before he is through
with the first round, some Of the per
sistent dealers in adulterated goods
will find themselves on the inside Of
hotels kept and managed by state
authority, looking out.
1t is the opinion Of Mr.. Wallis
shared also by every decent citizen,
that men who deliberately and know
ingly sell poisonous and adulterated
goods should be in the penitentiary.
1t is worse than burglary. Highway
robbery is decent in comparison.
Lucy f. Doggett, assistant state
analyst for Illinois, in one of her re-
ports, showed that out Of 1889 articles
Of food samples examined $50 were
adulterated.
She found black pepper that had
four doses of different authorizations,
sand, foreign fibres, starch and olive
stones. Honeys are adulterated as
much as ~ per cent Of cane syrup.
Milks were skinned, watered and
preserved with formaldehyde.
Thus it goes all the way down the
line We are fed on bread made out
OF bleached -four, or we're until lately:
thanks to the intelligent activities
Of Pure Food Commissioner Wallis,
the practise has been stopped in Idaho.
Bleaching the Flour
What is bleached -four? 1t is -four
that has been exposed to the fumes of
nitro acid, or to different forms of
nitrogen peroxide. Unbleached -four
is flour as it comes from the rollers
and the boiling machine that Of old
furnished the material for the bread
that mother used to make. The other
is the product after the thinkers have
done their deadly work on it. They
do not call it poisoning, of course,
these predatory descendants Of the
Meduci, they call it bleaching. 1t
does for the -four what formaldehyde
does for milk. The aim is to embalm
1t, to make it last longer without
Loaves of bread made from bleached
-four and placed in tightly sealed jars
will stand for ten days before mould
ing, while if made from unbleached
flour and placed similarly will show
mold in five days.
The aim is to make the bread last
longer in order that the shekels may
heap up the Golfers of the baker and
miller, but all this at the expense of
the health Of the people who buy and
use this embalmed flour.
Messrs. Laid and White, pure food
Of North Dakota, made
some interesting experiments with
rabbits using overbleached, bleached
and unbleached -four. They extracted
alcohol from the three kinds and fed
It to the rabbits. The alcohol
rom the uubleached -four did not
harm the rabbits, that from the
oleached caused death in few hours,
while that from the overbleached -four
'aused immediate collapse and DEATH
People fed on bread made from
oleached -four are slowly poisoned.
It impedes Digestion; bread made of
lnbleached -four digests in one-half
he time taken by that made from the
oleached articles; it lays the founda-
ion for all kinds of stomach trouble.
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