The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-07-19
Attack on Government Chemist Is
Due To Jealousy Of Fellow Officials
and Bitter Enmity Of Interests
Hit by Pure Food Law. Il
He Threatens To Tell Ali Regarding
Bitter Opposition To His Fearless
Administration.

years--one within the department Of
agriculture, the other the outside
money interests injured by the pure
food. and drug law. Both forces ara
together In the present effort to get
his scalp.
The hostility within the department
is the result OF jealousy Secretary
Wilson and DR.. Wiley have both at
tended conventions, where DR.. Wiley
has been the lion, while Uncle Jimmy
has been named among those pres
emit"
Ii Is safe to say that Wiley would
have been fired long ago but for fear
OF public opinion.
Two department employees said to
be strongly opposed to DIR. Wiley are
George p. McCabe and +. l.. Dunlap
McCabe is solicitor for the depart
ment--the same McCabe who figures
in the Controller bay scandal as hav-
Ing authorized Taft to withdraw the
now-gobbled Controller bay water
front from the protection OF the for
estry service.
Dunlap is assistant chemist 70 Dr.
Wiley. For years things have been
made as unpleasant as possible for
DIR. Wiley, in the hope that he would
resign.
Costs Government Fortune.
DR.. Wiley was chairman of the
board OF food and drug inspection,
but McCabe and Dunlap were named
as the other two members. Then
this board was superseded by the
referee board" OF outside experts,
with a salary roll of about 100000 a
year. Already il has cost the govern
ment hundreds of thousands OF dol
lars for Just two decisions--one over
( ruling DR.. Wiley in the benzoate mat
ter, the other sustaining his sacchar-
fin contention.
The execution of the pure food law
was taken from DR.. Whey and given
to the department of justice-that IL,
TO McCabe Up-to-date there have
been 1000 prosecutions and 900 con
yictions. But fines have been nomi-
nal. ranging from one cent up TO
5000. most Of them being for $40,
SIS and $40.
Occasional picayune fines are rou-
tine Jokes to filthy food faker.
II they hoped to drive Wiley to re,
sign under these annoyances and make
way for Dunlap, they failed. DR..
Wiley kept his temper, held his
tongue and fought on.
The outside attack comes from
manufacturers Of drugged soothing sir
ups. for babies, cocained cures for
their elders, fake -alls-from ven
ders of benzoates, saccharine. for
maidehyde and other harmful presery-
atiyes in foods--and from the power
80 a t.Nr t..sn
1t is mysterious. individuals are
hard to trace, but ii has influence and
lighting fund.
Mail Is Marked "Fictitious.'
Recently the Advertisers Protec-
tive association" sent circular letter
to every newspaper in America de
nouncing DR.. Wiley and declaring 1t
would seek TO pledge presidential can
didates To his dismissal IL he remains
In Office till next January on pain of
being opposed by the association IL
they refuse. II also made yelled
threat OF lost advertising for non-com-
placent newspapers. This associa-
ton is composed OF manufacturers OF
foods. beverages and drugs represent.
ing an investment OF $500, 900 900,
whose advertising expenses are an
nually over s10o.000.0O0," says the let
rerheat. =
But no names are given except
Frederick w Hooper, secretary" and
no address other than Lock Box 2124,
New York City" Mail to this address
was returned as uncalled for and
marked fictitious" by the postoffice.
Hooper was finally discovered. but
has been disayowod with earnestness
by suspected manufacturers as
press agent who conceived and financ-
ed the opening OF the anti-wiley cam
, paign with the expectation OF enlist.
ing their support afterwards.
The attack failed, because the news
papers either ignored or denounced
( e.
Threatens to-TeIl All
The latest inside attempt to down
DR.. Wiley hasfnade him hopping, roar.
ing mad. II have never taken any
body into my confidence in regard 10
this opposition = he says, but IL there
Is to be an Investigation ~ tell all
know"
An Investigation has be zen started
by the house committee on expendi-
lures In the department of agriculture.
The whole matter Is to be aired. Br
Wiley, as witness, will be big SEN
satlon.
The whole attempt to force his res.
ignation quietly ito avoid the dis
grace on charge OF technical VIC.
lation OF the law. will be probed. DIR.
Wiley didn't resign. Those who con.
cocted the scheme had peculiar idea
OF him. Now, through no action of his
the story has leaked and the admins
tratIon finds itself holding something
that burns
whatever Taft does now. he can't
stop complete investigation, because
Ralph w. Moss OF Center Point, Inc.
happens TO be chairman OF the probing
committee. Moss was In Purdue uni
Persity when Wiley was professor OF
chemistry there and college pride
makes him the doctors champion.
e. Identified, rs Missing.
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