The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-17
PURE FOOD LAW
 IS FORGOTTEN
Legislation that It Took IT Years to Get Now a Dead Letter = Expert Blames Secretary Wilson.

New York, Jan. 17.-President Roose- velt's Remsen commissions which per- mitted the use of benzoate of soda as a food preservative, did a work that is abhOrrent to common Sense.'' Sulphate of copper, aniline dyes, alum, starch, sand and stones have again resumed their pristine place
 upon the citizens daily bill of fare.
 The Pure food legislation that repre- sented a victory gained only after seventeen years of hard fighting, is ton of the blame lies at the door of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. These are few of the startling declarations made by Samuel Hopkins Adams. the well known publicist and expert in food adulteration, in the
 February Hampton's Magazine.
 MT. Adams, in a trenchment and vigorous manner, plainly tells how
 those men who consented to eat ben
 zoate of soda suffered, during the
 period of experimental from a va riety of logically resulting maladies,
 collie, cramps, intestinal irritation,
 nausea, vomiting, headache, diarrahea,
 larity of heart action, wide variations
 of temperature, depression, loss of ap-
 petite and lassitude.
 MT. Adams refers in the course Of
 his article to the pretty little bright
 green peas which help out the price
 of lamb at expensive restaurants. He
 states that most of these canned peas
 come from France, and that sulphate of copper is used in their manufac-
 ture, and he declares that, because of
 MT. Roosevelt's personal friendship for
 the French Ambassador, M. Jauser-
 and, these peas were granted "exe- cutive immunity
 ioJo
 states that the Secretary dominated
 the convention of the National Asso- cia1ion of State Food and Dairy De-
 partments, held last August in Den
 yer, and that, due to his influence, a
 president was elected who shows no
 interest in curbing the use of benzoate
 of soda in gpreserving food stuhs. To quote MT Adams further:
 '"The market teens with honey that is mainly glucose; jellies, jams, and fguit products adulterated with starch
 and agar-agar, colored with aniline
 dyes (coal tar) and preserved with phosphoric, sulphurous, or benzoic acid;
 coal-tar-colored flavoring extracts, in nocent of any taint of the fruit whose
 name is upon the label; catchups that are tinted and doctored out of all semblance to what a decent catchup should be; pickles and relishes dosed with alum and benzoic acid; blackber- Ty UTdIOI0S anu pOIl {WIu0S IupEOf- ed' with glucose, coal-tar dyes and sodium benzoate: baking powder for tified with alum: candy, greened, rouged, or yellowed with aniline; and pepper pleasingly variegated with ground alive pits, cocoanut shells. starch and sand and stones.
 There still remains Congress. The men who fought the good fight for | the enacted bill may not be content l to sit quiet and see it's destruction. They will have concrete issue before | them, the country's homes flooded with l the very drugged and falsified foods which the statute was meant to pro- 1 hibit, a Referee board created out of nothing and irresponsible to any
 properly established authority, still scientifically potent to bless or ban:
 Harvey w Wiley, the man who throughout his term of office has stood 1 immovably for the principle of the law bound and silenced by the over riding majority in the Board of Food | and Drug Control; the common right l forgotten, and the law in contempt. Here is status to stir any citi- zen. though his stomach be that of an | ostrich, or though he find his food l in nuts and his drink in the dew for Lit is the law that is being poisoned
 and in it's corruption every citizen is l cnrrunt ed"