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an ownership cable of kind connecting them with

an ownership cable of kind connecting them with
one of the over-thesea powers.
AS Mr. Bouter put it: 1T seems possible that
having purchased his coat of arms, Jefferson
feared that the declaration of independence
and the establishment of a republican form of
government it would not be available asset
and SO he hoped that dependence would continue"
The memory of this speech dwells in congress.
1t was Intentionally light, but it drove home the
lesson that frailties of certain kind are not
confined to members of any political party.
When in the future American citizen dies as
the result of eating adulterated food that has been
article entering into interstate commerce,
coroners jury will be justified In bringing in
verdict Of suicide In order not to be too hard on
the deceased the Jury may give the
carelessness, but whichever of the twain the
dict be. the recently died" will be held responsi-
BILE.
The pure-food bill which passed Congress Is
a strong measure. Proir to its passage it was
the cause of more Misunderstanding, more sus-
picons and Of more abuse of men and measures
than was any other which congress thought 1t
worth while to consider.
Representative James r. Mann of Chicago
piloted the bill through the house. He was ex-
FOUNDER and exhorter, and during the greater part
of four days he held the interest of the seasoned
members a school teacher holds the interest of
wideopen-eyed children to whom tales of a hither-
to unknown are told-and it, was tales of the
hitherto unknown that Mr.. Mann told to the
Washington-gathered children of larger growth.
For amazement and curiosity, for interest and
indignation there was no scene of the winter in
the big hall of congress like unto that enacted
while the Hyde Park representative set forth his
in bottle and in box and gave his colleagues
full knowledge of the indigestible and poisonous
stuff that the stomach of the American had been
taking to its all the years under the sacred
of food and medicine
The house has upon most occasions the saving
grace of taking things in part humorously.
joke saves many situation, assauges anger and
dsarms the man whose tongue under stress of
temper becomes a sharp weapon.
There few jokes during the discussion of
the purefood bill. The subject was as deadly
serious some of the food" products dis
played on the Chicago representatives desk. Once
in while the gravity relieved by quip,
but matter of fact the joke of the thing was
of the pasta huge joke, If grim one, cracked
by food preparers and medicine manufacturers
at the expense of the stomachs and the livers of
the American people,
Mr. Mann told of an American firm that had
been importing rotten-yes rotten-eggs, which,
after treatment with boric acid were sold to
candy-makers and cake bakers Mr.. Gaines of
Tennessee expressed gratitude that the imports
did not get into eggnoggs. The laugh was faint.
Every member thinking of the candy and
the cake and stomachs of the child multitude.
The half has been told in the public
prints of the food frauds which Representative
Mann disclosed In the time-often extended
allotted to him TO press this bill TO a passage.
Some of his exhibits ground coffee" made
of roasted beans, oats, pilot bread. charcoal red
slate, bark and date stones cinnamon made of