The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-14
PUBLIC AROUSED TO
need OF PURE FOOD
Continued From Page One.

food or food sanitation bills. in every
instance lettering their existing laws
Fifteen of our forty-seven states HAYS
developed a social conscience sufficient
to compel them to safeguard the food
of their people. The circulating of the
model pure food bill, the discussion
and agitation, the petitions, letters and
messages have had great weight 50
I say our commissioners and congress
men, in bringing about this result.
| Nor In this all. The best food work
of the country has not been done at
| the stale, capitols. The cities of our
land-Portland, Tacoma, Chicago Al.
hany, Louisville, Palatka-hundreds
of cities throughout our country,
north, south. northwest, southwest,
have re-drafted their city ordinances,
appointed inspectors, directed cam
paigns. punished law breakers--and in
other ways SO improved their food con-
dition that their work is telling al =
ready in the records of vital statistics
and a lowered death rate; and in every
city in which this thing has happened,
irs women have done a part. In this
city work, even more than in the leg
islation, the women have not only TAX
en- a part, but in fully half the In
stances have instituted the movement.
kept up the enthusiasm, and supplied
the energy that brought success.
Best of all, the public is aroused.
The good food movement, its public
ity education, investigation. is not a
passing fad. 1t is not at high tide to-
day to ebb tomorrow, but rather a
steady current.
The movement for pure and clean
food will never stop until every man
in our nation is fed honestly and wise
ly, and until the maker and purveyor
of adulteration is relegated to the class
of criminals.
My second message is foreword, a
suggestion for the future. Within the
next two years fifteen other states
will pass and enforce enlightened food
avs. A thousand cities will enforce
food ordinances, create food inspec-
t, RS. prosecute violators, and build
sanitary dispensaries. Within the next
two years public sentiment will grow
and harden into settled convictions,
and at last into national policy and
the custom of the country. The de-
basing of food is going out of fashion.
1t will no longer be done. We will
lose the art, reject and forget the
taste of near food" dope" and
"goo;" learn to know and demand fit
eating for a free people. And in this
work, Ihe creating of the standard,
the women of the land will have an
increasing part.
My closing prayer is TO every club
in the federation. The time is COM
ing, and now is, to do the work of
food sanitation. The day of mo activ-
ity" in food sanitation is past Study
art and literature we may and shall;
create parks, endow libraries, erect
statues, preserve forests, save the
child and the landmark and the aged
and invalid-travel and tea and re-
these things must we do
but charge you, leave not the other
undone. The plain. homely work of
women, the loaf giver, of the virtuous
woman who giveth meat unto her
that world-old work Is
yours You cannot escape 1t. You
may make excuses, you may write mo
activity" a million times, but there lies
your work. the work of womankind,
undone until you do it. You are the
Of an empire. You must
follow your work beyond the four |
walls OF your homes into the fields, |
the factories, the docks and quays. |
Your food embraces the products of
the earth. Your family numbers the |
dwellers of America. And look well, |
women, today, tomorrow, always. Arise |
to your worldwide responsibility. See
to it now, as you have done from the
farthest past, that the food Of the land
Is conserved, the people well fed.