Putnam patriot., 1909-07-09
Danger in Impure Food and Wafer.

Danger in Impure Food and Waier..
 People should not wonder why Il Is necessary to have all kinds of food stuns inspected by government. Many articles offered In the market contain Ingredients injurious to health, and many articles are made under filthy conditions. If all the discoveries of articles with injurious ingredients and filthiness were printed, many persons would never touch any article unless they knew IL was healthy and clean. Such persons would be liable to starv C to death If they stuck to their detefmi- nation.
 X lady In New York was very fond 1 of certain kind of cracker. and she was taken by friend to n side street and into second story room, Across | the street was the cracker bakery, and she was told to look Into the window and see the wofkmen kneading the dough- They were coarse.iooking fel- l lows, and everything in the room look. ed tilthy, yet there in their bare feet she saw the men stamping the dough | to knead II, and kept at it until every particle came In contact with their feet. The lady could never after that eat her favorite cracker. That was six ty years ago, oefore any pure-food laws were made. Scenes of that character are no longer open To public inspection
 Recently J. F. Harms, meat inspec- tos, after eighteen months service tn Il St. Louis meal. packing establishment resigned, and in giving hts reasons therefor, diseloses most fearful condi- ton of things in handling aud putting
 up the goods. Nc prelence WAS made to maintain neatnc>s of even cleanliness,
 and he recites instances that came un- der hts obsefv alton. One was, "t have
 seen from ,ua te ,nta pounds of lard split and run into an open sewer in the
 floor. the sewer outlet quickly blocked.
 and the lard taken out of the sewer. It
 was passed To the packers over the pro
 test oi the inspector on that floor, and II went 10 the public marked U. s. in-
 speeled and passed. v
 Cattle condemned as unfit to be killed
 and meat packed, were sent, over the protest of the floor inspector, 10 the
 packers, and the meat marked "t. S.
 inspected and passed. V
 He says that some of the filthiest . things imaginable are practiced in the sausage departments, such as the use ol .bladders for castings without cleans , ing, the use of filthy iripe in saasagse, the use of siimy hogs s,omachs for cas- ings, and the use of meats that have fallen on the filthy floor without any pretenec. al cleansing, taken up and used.
 lie gives other similar instances oi . similar character, but the atose must , suffice for one source of dangerous food , supplies. Mr. Harms also gives the
 names iof inspectors who have made
 protests and the names of those who overrnled their protests.
 Some ten sesrs ago, the mea, pack
 CTS suffered in their sales, abroad As
 well as iu this coantrs, when the me
 thods employed to preserve their meats
 were eS posed and shown 10 be injurious
 te health. The T.. S government then
 undertook the responsllisy ef assuring the world that hereafter The evil should be stopped, and II wss. and contracts were resumed under that assurance,
 Government inspectors we're appointed
 over every meat-psekms establishment
 in the country, to sec that nothing was
 raeked that was net pure and healthy.
 It worked well for season. But the packers, like the sugar trust in New York, which had 10 disgore many mil lions of dollars swindled out os the gov