The Washington times., 1911-08-29
TINES EDITORIAL
. ON WILEY STATUS
INDORSED BY LABOR
Question of Politics or
Health to Be Forced
on Taft.
PAMPHLET WILL BE
SENT OUT BROADCAST
Central Labor Union Will, Make
Chief Chemist a Cam
paign Issue.

huieu tnouSand copies of n
resolution indorsing an editorial which
appeared in The Washington Times Au-
gust II. entitled, The Only Way ONT
for President Taft" are to be pr,nted
by the Central Labor Union of Wash.
lnston, to be sent broadcast through
out the country. The editorial in oues-
lion, In which 1T Is put right I'm to
the President to show whether he
thinks the pure food law was made to
play politics with or to protect the pub
lie health, will be reproduced. Ths
Washington labor union men are de-
termined to make the Wiley-McCabe
President to reach some kind Of a de-
cision. and that right away
At the regular meeting of the Gen.
trail Labor Union last night The Times
editorial was read by Emmett L.
Adams, chairman OF the resolution
committee, and was greeted with more
Vociferous applause than generally Is
seen at those meetings. Half a dozen
men were on their feet before MIR.
Adams had finished reading the arti-
Gle, each trying to make a motion to
indorse the editorial and have thou
sands of copies of 1t printed for gen.
eral distribution.
Before the Central body takes this
step, however, a resolution indorsing
the editorial together with its objects,
implied and otherwise, will be framed
by the committee appointed for that
purpose. This will be done next Mon
day night.
Take Immediate Action.
Mr.. Adams and his associates are at
work today on the resolution, and
oil 90 ~
be held within the next two or three
days.
Declaring that President Taft and GER
tain members of the Cabinet are deter
mined TO drive DR.. Harvey w. Wiley.
chief of the Chemistry Bureau, out Of
the Government service because he has
dared TO attack the big drug and food
interests Of the country in the interest
Of the consumers, Mr.. Adams would
have the President either deny or con-
firm the accusation. DR.. Wiley, he said,
has been a fearless foe to impure drug
and food manufacturers, who in turn
have been friends of the Adninistra-
ticn. and vino assisted President Taft
in gaining his present position.
The editorial in The Times,-' he con-
tinued, has made complete exposure
of the Presidents attitude toward DR..
Wiley. The Times has been fearless In
speaking the truth, ever since the con-
ington newspaper has dared to speak
the truth, either editorially or in the
news columns. as has The Times"
The stand taken by DR.. Wiley in the
enforcement Of the pure food and drug
act was indorsed by the central body,
and Solicitor McCabe, leader Of the al
legged ring which Is trying to oust the
chief chemist, was condemned.
VIII Precede Taft Tour.
Immediately after the resolution now
being framed by the committee on
resolutions Is submitted to the central
body, IL will be rushed to the printers.
and 10000 copies will be issued 1t IL
the. purpose of the central body to send
a man on the road in advance Of the
President to distribute the pamphlets.
When President Taft makes his swing
across the country next month In every
CITY through which he will pass he Will
find hundreds of the little pamphlets:
In speaking of the resolution, and the
action Of the Central Labor union last
night. Mr.. Adams, who is one Mh,ng OF Ine
best known labor leaders IN "asnlhs-
:sThe committee on resolutions VIII
carry out the Instruction. OF the CEN
trail body to the letter. The delegateS
the matter will not be pigeonholed, ous
that Immediate action will be taken l.
saThe Wiley-McCabe controversy is
ore IN which every person in the Uni
ted States Is interested. Union men
have as much interest in the ENFORCE
ment of the pure food and drug laws
as any one else. We contend tnat
our duty to support a high government
officfal when we believe he Is being un-
Justly attacked. ,,.s,.os hv tba
Adn1inistratfon for doing something the
Administration itself hasn't the nerve
to undertake"