Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1911-07-28
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
BY CLYDE H. TAvENNER.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July "a, 1911

A remarkable series of facts which have
come to light in the last twenty-four hours
| indicate that packers of embalmed beef
are the influences that have been princi-
pally behind the plot to have DIR. H. W.
Wiley ousted from the public service.
Manufacturers of embalmed beef are at
present by virtue of an order issued by the
Department of Agriculture permitted to
use benzoate of soda in whatever quanti-
ties they may desire. DIR. Wiley not only
opposed the issuance of this order. main
tanning that the preservative is decidedly
harmful in its effects upon the human
system, but has worked untiringly to edu-
cate the people to the danger lurking in
packed meats in which benzoate is used.
The result is that several states have passed
legislation absolutely forbidding the use of
the drug in any quantity whatsoever
Therefore Dr. Wiley has become standing
menace to the embalmed beef industry
This man Wiley has got to 60" was the
| edict that went out from the embalmed
meat manufacturers.
When DR.. Wiley held that benzoate of
soda was harmful to the human system
the packers appealed to the Remssen ref
cree board, especially packed with friends
of the food dopers, which board very
promptly and obligingly reversed DIR, Wiley
The board held that benzoate of soda in
small quantities, specified as five-tenths of
one gram per day, was not injurious to
healthy persons. But when the order was
issued legalizing the use of benzoate, no
limitation whatever was made as to the
amount of the drug the packers might use.
Remarkable circumstances attended the
issuing of the order letting down the bars
to the food dopers. The order was issued
| on March 1000 and xuoo nlooad in dir
culation March 4, the day President Taft
went into Office. II was signed by George
B. CortelyOu, Oscar S. Straus and James
Wilson, three cabinet officers, as required
by law, Of the three men two were to
retire from Office the next day, and actually
retired before the scope of their order be-
came known.
This order giving government sanction
to the use Of a product of benZOic acid
meant that we were going back 500 years,
| for benZoin or its products had not been
used in the preservation of flesh since the
| Egyptians stopped embalming their dead
Chemist Floyd w. Robinson, one of DIR.
, Wileys prominent assistants, recently APP
! peared as witness against benzoate in an
action brought by the State Of Indiana to
| prevent the sale of foods containing ben
zoate. and before DIR. Wiley had chance
to intervene Robinson's dismissal "for the
| good of the service" followed
Find the influence that was powerful
enough to have the three cabinet officers
issue the order legalizing the doping of
foods" says Dr. Wiley's friends land you
will learn the identity of the men who have
ever since been plotting to have DIR. Wiley
Ousted."
TAFT AGAINST WILEY.
Since Taft has been in the White House
he has invariably opposed DIR. Wiley in
stead of having cO-Operated with him in
the interest of pure food.
In his decision against DIR. Wiley in the
interest of adulterated whiskey, the Presi-
dent reversed the findings of ex-President
Roosevelt. former Attorney General Bona
parte, Chief Government Chemist DIR. H.
W. Wiley, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson,
the Remssen board, the United States
PharmacOpeia. the Internal Revenue Blu
reau of the Treasury. the standards adopted
by twenty-six States, fifteen of the United
States Courts, and President Tafts father
the former Attorney General of the United
States
INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE DISAPPEARS.
Following the mysterious disappearance
Of the "Dick to Dick" letter from the files
of the Interior Department comes the dis
covery that a full set of Controller Bay
maps have also disappeared from the files
of the War Department
The maps in question were seen not only
by M. F. Abbott. but by Delegate Wicker
sham. of Alaska, Clifford Pinchot and by
Secretary of War Henry l.. Stimson. Yet
Major j. b. Cavanaugh. of the War Depart
ment testified before the Graham commit
tee that the maps are not now in the files.
II is believed by the members of the
committee that the Ryan cOnspiratOrs as
soon as the present exposure was threaten
ed took means to have moved from the
government files all discriminating proof
THE files have been tempered with.
This is obvious. and in fact the only con-
clusiOn this committee can reach in the
face of the evidence at hand" said Chair
man Graham. 1T would seem that the
files are not to be relied upon to give us
the truth. Altering records is serious
Offense and this committee will 60 TO the
bottom of il.
| DR.. Why's 0FFENsE
! Doctor Wiley took one-t third of the time of
first-clas man instead Of all the time of
a third-class man. That is the actual
''offense" for which the great friend of the
people is being harried by the Taft admin
| istrati0n.
THE SAME 0LD CRADLE Howl
That the reduction Of sugar duties would
ruin the domestic production of cane sugar
and that free sugar would annihilate both
the cane and beet sugar industries Of the
country" is the cry from that lusty -unged
infant the Sugar Trust.
In the name Of the small growers and
producers the trust is whining and pulling
for high tarff-for protection. With
protection the small. independent interest
has the happy prospect Of being absorbed,
annihilated wiped out as soon as the tariff
succOred infant is ready to smite its 60
between.
EASY MONEY For STEEL TRUST.
That the United States Steel Corporation
forces independent steel concerns 10 pay
exorbitant prices for hauling ore over its
roads is a point that the Steel Trust Com
mittee of Inquiry will investigate The
committee is informed that the trust roads
charge enough for hauling one load Of ore
for an independent company to pay for
Transporting two loads Of its own.